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Pennsylvania Revises Confederate Markers, Recasts Forces As ‘Enemy’ Soldiers

by editor | Dec 15, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan

After removing a trio of Confederate historical markers an hour west of Gettysburg, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has replaced two with significant revisions that view Confederate milestones through a more critical lens. The McConnellsburg, Fulton...

Are Autocrats Always Adversaries

by editor | Dec 14, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan

When did the political systems of 193 nations become the business of the government of the United States? And who elected us Americans to write the moral code for the regimes that rule other lands? Consider: On taking office, President Joe Biden pledged to center his...

News From Around The South 12/6 to 12/13

by editor | Dec 13, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan

TENNESSEE: African-American Wins New Trial Over Confederate Memorabilia The picturesque jury chamber in the Giles County courthouse in Tennessee featured a giant window with a soaring library, but it had another striking detail: a portrait of Jefferson Davis, the...

Abortion and the Constitution

by editor | Dec 9, 2021 | Archive

“The fetus has an interest in having a life.” —Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., Dec. 1, 2021 Last week’s oral argument in the Supreme Court about abortion was both humdrum and arcane. Humdrum because we already knew where the nine justices...

New North Carolina Civil War Center Gets Boost

by editor | Dec 8, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The N.C. Civil War & Reconstruction History Center, an $80 million project, appears to be on the glide path to construction in Fayetteville thanks to a cash influx approved in the recent state budget. “Absolutely yes, it will be built,” said David Winslow, a...

Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will

by editor | Dec 6, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with “legal guarantees” that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia — or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves. This is the message Russian President Vladimir Putin is...