Where does the South Begin?
More than a decade ago, on the first day of a college seminar titled “The American South,” Glenda Gilmore—one of the deans of Southern history—challenged my classmates and me to define the borders of the South. It was a surprisingly difficult task. Everyone agreed on,...
9/11 and the Politics of Evil
Three days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the worst and most murderous attack on the United States in history, President George W. Bush declared “a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance.” He went to the National Cathedral and spoke to the...
News From Around the South, 9/4 to 9/11
SOUTH CAROLINA: Developers Have Black Families Struggling to Maintain Property, History PHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C. — The Rev. Elijah Smalls Jr. once grew okra, butter beans and other vegetables in the neighborhood where his family has lived near the South Carolina...
Rescheduling Pot Leaves Fed Prohibition Untouched
For half a century, reformers have been urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana, which since 1970 has been assigned to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the law’s most restrictive category. Although the DEA has always...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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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 Read More