News From Around the South, 6/30 to 7/7 - SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Play Tells Story Of Gullah Geechee Experience During Revolutionary War When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops him at the pearly gates. The country’s first president and commander-in-chief of the Continental Army must first reckon with his ownership of slaves and their lives before […]
Independence Day, 2025 - We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the President of the United States bombs the lawful facilities of […]
SC played a crucial role in the American Revolution. Why don’t more people know that? - South Carolina played an outsized role in the Revolutionary War, though it is one that has largely been overlooked by what happened elsewhere, as well as the oversized symbolism the Palmetto State carries from the Civil War. Years of efforts to highlight that historical record by the S.C. Battleground Trust, the S.C. American Revolution 250th Commission and others […]
Who Is An American? - So now all the babies born to undocumented parents in the 28 states that didn’t challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order will have to sue (anonymously, of course, lest this administration deport them, which it would if it could find them) to demand that the Constitution be followed in their state and get an injunction […]
News From Around the South, 6/23 to 6/30 - SOUTH CAROLINA: Carolina Day marks 249th anniversary of triumph on Sullivan’s Island SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Saturday is Carolina Day, marking the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island during the Revolutionary War. The battle was the first decisive victory over the British Royal Navy in the war and safeguarded Charleston at a critical time early […]
