by editor | Jan 4, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Flags Would Be Barred From License Plates Under Democratic Leader’s Bill COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Democratic House leader hopes to end the 15-year run of a specialty license plate whose emblem he says is a painful reminder of the...
by editor | Dec 30, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The removal of Confederate symbols from public spaces across the U.S. began as a movement. It has turned into a mass social reckoning as people took to the streets to protest the death of unarmed Black Americans at the hands of police. The toppling of statues and...
by editor | Dec 29, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Two news organizations issued corrections recently. One was The New York Times. The other was Fox Business. One concerned an honest mistake. The Times admitted to having been scammed by the subject of one of its podcast series. Fox Business did not admit to anything...
by editor | Dec 28, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: American Battlefield Trust Buys Battle Of Williamsburg Site A significant portion of Williamsburg’s historic Civil War battlefield has been saved this week after the American Battlefield Trust bought the 29 acres in the area of the “Bloody Ravine” from The...
by editor | Dec 23, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Reuben Brigety II, the new leader of the University of the South, says if any history matters then it all does. It is why the small Christian liberal arts school perched on the western edge of Tennessee’s scenic Cumberland Plateau is laying bare its past, even...
by editor | Dec 22, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
If America were a company and not a country, we would have long ago dissolved the corporation, split the blanket, and gone our separate ways. What still holds this disputatious and divided people together? Consider. In announcing the $900 billion stimulus bill to deal...