News From Around the South, 1/1 to 1/8
SOUTH CAROLINA: Papers of 1st Post-Civil War Governor Finally Returned to S.C. COLUMBIA — The papers of South Carolina’s first post-Civil War governor are back home and publicly available in the capital city after spending more than a century in Alabama. Benjamin...
Nikki Haley, American History and Intellectual Honesty
When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley answered a question last week in which she stated that the American Civil War was fought over “government,” “rights” and “freedoms,” she was correct. Yet, like most politicians,...
The Caribbean’s Key Role in the American Revolution
The American Revolution (1775-1783), which pitted the powerful British empire against 13 upstart colonies, wasn’t just fought on the North American continent. The “shot heard round the world” in Concord, Massachusetts, also fired the political ambitions of other...
Why Was It So Hard for Nikki Haley to Say ‘Slavery’? History Has the Answer
n William Faulkner’s novel, Sartoris, someone asks the title character, Colonel John Sartoris, why he had fought for the Confederacy so many decades before. “Damned if I ever did know,” replied the aging veteran, now a pillar of his community in fictional...
News From Around the South 12/25 to 1/1
New Year’s Tradition of Watch Night Services Dates to Civil War The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to December 31, 1862, when many Black Americans gathered in churches and other venues, waiting for President Abraham Lincoln to sign...Obiter Dicta
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, Mankind would Read More
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TEXAS: State Celebrates Texas Independence Day It was on March 2, 1836, when historians believe the original and five copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence were written and signed Read More