Obiter Dicta
Our Homegrown Extremists
The suspect in the Minnesota murders, Vance Luther Boelter, has been charged, for now, with second-degree murder. He allegedly...
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News From Around the South, 6/16 to 6/23
SOUTH CAROLINA: How a raid in SC freeing 700 slaves became a Pulitzer Prize-winning book Author and researcher Edda Fields-Black discovered her own...
Visitors of Charleston Historical Sites Are Being Asked to Report ‘Negative’ Stories About America
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — Some of the Confederate shots that started the Civil War were fired from here. And today, if you don't like what you hear or see about the story you can report it for being negative about U.S. history. In the past month, signs encouraging visitors to complete a feedback survey have recently popped up at National Park Service sites across the nation, including locally at Fort...
“The Most Incompetent Man in the Confederacy”: John Pemberton In Over His Head
ECW welcomes back guest author Lucas Simmons. John C. Pemberton ended the Civil War with a less-than-stellar reputation. Confederate surgeon John A....
Book Review: Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War
While some studies on Civil War memory appeared in the early and mid-twentieth century, those associated with the beginnings of a widening scholarly...