Where does the South Begin?
More than a decade ago, on the first day of a college seminar titled “The American South,” Glenda Gilmore—one of the deans of Southern history—challenged my classmates and me to define the borders of the South. It was a surprisingly difficult task. Everyone agreed on,...
9/11 and the Politics of Evil
Three days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the worst and most murderous attack on the United States in history, President George W. Bush declared “a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance.” He went to the National Cathedral and spoke to the...
News From Around the South, 9/4 to 9/11
SOUTH CAROLINA: Developers Have Black Families Struggling to Maintain Property, History PHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C. — The Rev. Elijah Smalls Jr. once grew okra, butter beans and other vegetables in the neighborhood where his family has lived near the South Carolina...
Rescheduling Pot Leaves Fed Prohibition Untouched
For half a century, reformers have been urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana, which since 1970 has been assigned to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the law’s most restrictive category. Although the DEA has always...
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....Obiter Dicta
Those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” — Hosea 8:7 The federal antipathy to compliance with the Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Former Slave and S.C. Rep. Will Soon Have State House Monument At 23-years-old, Robert Smalls won freedom for himself and his family. The Beaufort County man went from Read More