News From Around the South, 11/25 to 12/2
National Park Service Announces Addition of Seven New Sites to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service recently announced the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. This national...
Civil War Cryptids: Sophistry in Sightings of Monsters
As Gen. Braxton Bragg’s command camped near Bridgeport, Alabama, a hairy monster lurked near their positions. Five pickets from Capt. George Anderson’s company went missing over four days, each leaving signs of a struggle with some unseen foe. Anderson led a party of...
The Transgender War
She has yet to even be sworn in. But the hateful Republican women in the House of Representatives have already declared war on the first openly transgender woman to be elected to Congress, Sarah McBride. She is my new hero. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who The...
News From Around the South, 11/18 to 11/25
SOUTH CAROLINA: Wildlife refuge in Charleston County added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network ADAMS RUN, S.C. — The Ernest F. Hollings ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge is one of seven sites across the country being added to the Reconstruction Era...
He’s Trolling Us
What to make of Donald Trump's nominations of the Fox News team to the Trump Cabinet? Attorney General Gaetz? Can this be serious? An expert on wrestling to take down the Department of Education? An opponent of public health to run Health and Human Services? What kind...
Civil War Toll Much Worse in Confederate States, New Estimates Show
Faded ink. Inconsistencies. Fires. The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War, also had some of its worst-kept records, making the true number of casualties seem forever elusive. For decades, historians have cobbled together clues. But thanks to a newly...
There Are No Permanent Defeats
In 1994, Republicans won a sweeping victory that cost Democrats control of the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years. Republicans took an eye-popping 54 seats, leading many to conclude that this was a permanent political realignment. Two years later, Bill...
News From Around the South, 11/11 to 11/18
VIRGINIA: Latino Virginia oral history project gives voice to stories that supplant stereotypes ore than 1 in 10 Virginia residents are Latino, according to a 2022 report from the Virginia Latino Advisory Board. By 2030, their numbers are estimated to grow to nearly...
Deep In The Everglades, Visiting the Miccosukee ‘Tree Islands’
Deep within the seemingly endless saw-grass marshes of the Florida Everglades, I found myself standing on an unexpected speck of dry land on a bright spring day. The boat ride to this spot had fully exposed my tour group to the blustery wind and midday sun, and the...
Cultural Curators Face Reckoning for Mocking Middle America
PITTSBURGH — Walking out of the Allegheny County Republican election night event at a local luxury hotel, the young men waiting to valet my car got into a discussion with me about the just-announced election results. All four men were in their 30s. Two were white, one...
Obiter Dicta
She has yet to even be sworn in. But the hateful Republican women in the House of Representatives have already Read More
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