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Trump Loses Two More — and Does It Matter?
This week, President Donald Trump lost twice in his war against a free press. Will it stop him? Almost certainly not. The first...
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News From Around the South, 9/21 to 9/28
LOUISIANA: LSU struggles with multimillion-dollar athletics deficit: ‘We've got to stop that bleeding After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics...
Echoes of Reconstruction: A Black Soldier Reports on Human Rights Violations in the South During Reconstruction
By Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Many of the records of the Reconstruction Era were written by white men. These include reports from government officials, newspaper reporters and editors, and long-form books by white authors. Some of this written evidence was composed by white Freedmen’s Bureau employees after extensive consultations with Black witnesses or was brought...
250 years of US independence: How France helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War
On July 4, 1776, 13 British colonies in North America broke with the British Crown and declared their independence, in a momentous act of rebellion...
The Best New Barbecue Joints In The South
Every two years, Southern Living posts its best new barbecue joints in the South, and that highly anticipated list just came out this past week...