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Showing posts with label civil war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil war. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Push to remove Confederate statues stalls in rural areas

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Map and legend by The Washington Post , enhanced by The Rural Blog; for a larger version, click on the image . In the wake of protests ...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Confederate monuments are coming down, but more than 700 remain, and removing them may be legally tricky

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Map and legend by The Washington Post , enhanced by The Rural Blog; for a larger version, click on it. More than 70 of the nation’s Co...
Friday, October 04, 2019

A third way emerges in Confederate monuments debate: Keep them, but place signs explaining their racist history

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A Confederate monument in Nashville was vandalized in June ( Associated Press photo by Mark Humphrey) Monuments to Confederates have...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Big conservation and historic-sites bill passes Senate 92-8

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"The Senate on Tuesday passed the most sweeping conservation legislation in a decade, protecting millions of acres of land and hundred...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Town thought it had put racial conflict behind it; then an accident took out a Confederate statue

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The Demopolis monument in 2013 The protests and violence in Charlottesville, Va., sparked by the City Council's decision to move a...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Judge-historian defends Confederate monuments, says race problems run deeper than stone

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Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham Debate about the memorials to Confederate fighters continues to spread across the South...
Monday, January 04, 2016

Campaigns mounting in rural South to revive Confederate flag

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While 2015 saw some areas in the South campaigning—often successfully—to have Confederate flags taken down from government and university ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Judge removes portrait of Confederate general and town's namesake, saying it promotes inequality

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A judge in southern Virginia announced on Tuesday that he has removed the portrait of a Confederate general from the courthouse in a town ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

PBS to rebroadcast 'The Civil War'; first episode looks at impact of slavery on war

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Supporters of the Confederate flag say it represents heritage, not hate, a claim disputed by Civil War historians. The flag has been at th...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Hate groups foes of civil rights have misused Confederate battle flag, Civil War historian says

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Misuse of what people call the Confederate flag by white racist groups over the past 75 years has changed the flag's meaning and tarnis...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Civil War education varies by state; new Texas textbooks downplay slavery's role in war

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One-hundred-fifty years after the American Civil War ended and slavery was abolished, debate over the Confederate flag had heated up in so...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

College named after Robert E. Lee removes Confederate flags after students complain

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A college named after Robert E. Lee has removed Confederate flags from its campus after law students "complained because they had to ...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Southerners have misled nation for a century about cause of Civil War; time to set record straight

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By Al Cross , director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Friday The Rural Blog picked up an excerpt from Tracy Thom...
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Sunday, February 06, 2011

Rural places in Ky., slave state that didn't secede but later joined the losers, remember Civil War

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Exactly 150 years ago right now, the United States of America were (the prevailing verb then) becoming less united. The Deep South states ha...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Data on dates show decline of Iraqi agriculture

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"In Iraq, one of the places where agriculture was developed more than 7,000 years ago, there are increasing doubts about whether it mak...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

Confederacy museum, struggling to find a new site, plans to split into three

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Struggling from "image and financial problems," the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., is making another attempt to pres...