News from Around the South 5/5 – 5/12
SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Groups Seek New Members ANDERSON, S.C. — About 40 people gathered Saturday morning in front of the Anderson County Courthouse to observe Confederate Memorial Day. The annual event, staged by the Palmetto Sharpshooters...News from Around the South 4/21 – 4/28
GEORGIA: Groups Remember Ancestors at Confederate Cemetery MARIETTA — Beneath large shade trees and in the midst of thousands of Confederate flags perched near tombstones Sunday, the Daughters of Confederate Veterans on Confederate Memorial Day honored their ancestors...News from Around the South 4/14 – 4/21
ARKANSAS: School Boots Confederate Flag from Vehicles WALDRON, Ark. — Administrators with a small-town school in Arkansas say students are starting trouble by flying Confederate flags from their trucks, and they need to take them down or face suspension. The...The Washingtons' War
Abraham Lincoln must have been pained by the number of Washingtons on the other side during the Civil War. He idolized George Washington. One of the first books he read as a boy was Parson Weems’s apocryphal biography of the first president, and it made a lasting...Obiter Dicta
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: He died fighting for America’s independence at 14. He’s only just been identified Thirteen of America’s first ever veterans lie beneath a towering pine forest that was once Read More