In addition to being Confederate Heritage Month, April is also National Poetry Month. The combination of the two is brutal, as the following example from the Civil War era attests. The poet, to his progeny's enduring fortune, chose not to claim authorship of this adolescent...
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Raoul Vega has some thoughts on Confederate Heritage Month.
On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the remnants of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant. For some reason the flag is flying at.
In honor of Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Heritage Month, Tuesday Forgotten American Blogging at Alterdestiny focused this week on Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville.Stay tuned for additional TIDOS Heritage Month activities, including a review of Nicholas Lemann's Redemption.
Racist yokels across the state of Georgia are observing "Confederate Heritage Month." It also happens to be Emotional Overeating Awareness Month and Fresh Florida Tomato Month, but I digress. In.
Going to Mount Rushmore cost me $8, about an hour, and a fair amount of aggravation, but, hey, when am I going to be in South Dakota again?It occured to.
I'm not sure that Ezra takes the problem of Confederate nostalgia quite seriously enough. Sure, standing against slavery and the Confederacy hardly seems like a courageous point in some quarters. But, as Ezra acknowledges, there are lots of places where Confederate sympathy remains in vogue....