News From Around the South 3/20 to 3/27
NORTH CAROLINA: Black Civil War Soldiers Finally Honored GOLDSBORO, N.C. — African Americans — among the first to volunteer to fight for the Union Army during the Civil War — have been among the last to get recognition for their service. But the men of the 135th...
What Happens When the Firemen Are Arsonists?
In the past week, two top-20 American banks failed. A bank failure occurs when government regulators determine that the current and likely demand for a return of deposits cannot be met. When this determination is made, the feds enter the picture and declare the bank...
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900
In a recent research visit to the Emily Dickinson museum and archives in Amherst, I chanced upon a most improbable discovery of forgotten, pioneering work by another titan of culture. When thirty-one-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois (February 23, 1868–August 27, 1963) heard...
Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty
Since the early days of Henry Ford, Michigan was the proud symbol of America’s industrial might. But then, starting in the 1970s, things went south — in part because of the might of the unions that ran the state’s political machine. That’s when...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