News From Around the South 11/3 – 11/10

MISSISSIPPI: State eyes Heritage Initiative Preserving Confederate, Colonel Reb Past By Steph Bazzle  If passed, a measure being considered for Mississippi’s 2016 ballots would make Christianity the state religion, English the official language, and, according to its...

News From Around the South 10/21 – 10/27

VIRGINIA: Museum Marches On Despite Confederate Flag  Danville’s inability to legally remove a Confederate flag from the lawn of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is not stopping the museum’s new strategic plan and its upcoming sesquicentennial...

South's Best Civil War Battlegrounds

It’s impossible to deny the compelling narrative the Civil War still weaves into the culture of the South. A visit to former battlegrounds and sites where the war played out offers the visitor a gateway into why the issue remains important. Often, there are tour...

News from Around the South 9/29 – 10/6

VIRGINIA: Re-Enactor Assumes Identity of Man who Lived Near Battlefield APPOMATTOX, Va. — Three times per week, Christopher Bingham lives in a time of horses and candlelight, far removed from the cars driving past the Appomattox Court House National Historic...

News From Around the South 9/22 – 9/29

Georgia: $1.1M Expansion Underway for Southern Museum KENNESAW, Ga. — During a groundbreaking Friday, Mayor Mark Mathews said the city of Kennesaw is seeing another of its dreams fulfilled. The Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History kicked off a $1.1...