This SC library is older than the Library of Congress. It has big plans for America’s 250th anniversary
GEORGETOWN, S.C. — South Carolina played a crucial role in the Revolutionary War, and the Georgetown County Library doesn’t want the public to forget it. The library is creating “A Glorious Cause,” an education initiative highlighting the Palmetto State’s...
Trump’s Latest Invitation to Universities
It’s called the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” It is anything but. It asks the schools who received Wednesday’s letter to give up their academic freedom and adopt the right-wing partisan platform on education in exchange...
News From Around the South, 9/29 to 10/6
GEORGIA: Georgia’s highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community Atlanta (AP) — Georgia’s highest court Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of...
Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?
In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing....
SC man finds hundreds of relics in neighborhood, including musket and buttons from Washington’s army
RAVENEL — Mark Anders loves hearing that beep, beep, beeping sound his metal detector makes as he scans his neighborhood for artifacts and uncovers buried treasures long lost from centuries ago. With 6,000 acres to comb through in the Poplar Grove community, sometimes...Obiter Dicta
The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk Read More
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Confederate statue restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Read More