by editor | Sep 6, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
A new study outlines how white people’s migration during and after the Civil War, from the Confederate South to the West, bolstered white supremacy and institutional racism in non-slave states, helping create the vast racial disparities that exist today nationwide....
by editor | Sep 5, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
This November, Pennsylvanians will elect a new judge to the state’s Supreme Court. The contest is shaping up as another donnybrook pitting pro-life and pro-choice forces against one another. It doesn’t require a Ph.D. in political science to guess how this...
by editor | Sep 4, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: New Cookbook Highlights South Carolina’s Jewish History and Culture Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey have been friends for decades. Both Jewish natives of South Carolina, their mothers knew each other growing up — but they recently...
by editor | Sep 4, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
MECHANICSBURG, Pa.— Civil War and More Bookstore in Mechanicsburg has books for adults and children, as well as music, souvenirs, some model ironclads, and maps. Many of the maps owner Jim Schmick sells are replicas of charts drawn up during the Civil War. One of...
by editor | Aug 29, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
This past week, the nation noted the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The speech is without question a historic landmark, both in terms of recalling the unique stress of the time and in terms of...