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Book Review: Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War

by editor | Jun 11, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

While some studies on Civil War memory appeared in the early and mid-twentieth century, those associated with the beginnings of a widening scholarly emergence on this topic focused primarily on Confederate subjects, particularly the Lost Cause. Books like Gaines M....

Why the CBO Almost Always Gets It Wrong

by editor | Jun 10, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

These days it seems that a mysterious group called “the CBO” rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it’s not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results. The Congressional Budget Office and...

News From Around the South, 6/2 to 6/9

by editor | Jun 10, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

GEORGIA: Young Slime Life trial ends, but legislation it spawned still has life in Georgia ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A case against several high profile rap artists, the longest trial in Georgia’s history, essentially ended on Monday. With the final...

Winners and Losers

by editor | Jun 6, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

That’s what tax bills are all about — who pays more and who pays less, who gets the benefits and who ends up holding the bag. President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” should come as a surprise to no one. It’s a bonanza for the rich....

The Last Major Confederate Surrender: Smith, Buckner, Shelby, and Price Debate Their Options and Submission in New Orleans, May 26, 1865

by editor | Jun 4, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Dating when the American Civil War ended is a point of debate. All that can be agreed upon is that the fall of Richmond and Petersburg, followed quickly by Robert E. Lee’s submission at Appomattox, created a chain reaction that assured collapse. Lee and his ability to...

I’m a Harvard Reject

by editor | Jun 3, 2025 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Growing up in the Boston suburbs, in the shadows of Harvard, there was only one school I wanted to go to: Radcliffe, which in those days was the name of the undergraduate school for women at Harvard. I had a great uncle who taught at Harvard Medical School, which is...