Confederate Diaspora Spread Views Broadly

Confederate Diaspora Spread Views Broadly

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....
Pro-Life Movement Should Change Tactics

Pro-Life Movement Should Change Tactics

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...
News From Around the South 8/28 to 9/4

News From Around the South 8/28 to 9/4

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...
Stonewall’s Mapmaker

Stonewall’s Mapmaker

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...