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  Randy Isenhour, chair of the Catawba County Commission, published a letter in the Hickory Daily News yesterday that praised the UNC-CH Bo...

A new historic marker has joined the Confederate monument at the DeKalb County, Georgia, historic courthouse. This additional history about...

Watch for it: Thom Goolsby will force a bloody awful showdown on the Chapel Hill campus over the Silent Sam Confederate monument. He'...

The granite pedestal on which Silent Sam, the white supremacy symbol at the entrance to UNC-Chapel Hill, used to stand got hauled away in t...

On May 19, 2017, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered a speech about why he ordered four statues glorifying the Confederacy removed f...

While administrators at UNC fear violence if they force Silent Sam back up on his plinth in the middle of campus (see last item, down-col...

North Carolina Public Radio was reporting late yesterday that some "dozens" of Chapel Hill faculty are organizing a protest ag...

Photo: Khadejeh Nikouyeh, News and Record So "Silent Sam" is down, the monument to UNC students who died in the Civil War, w...

I've only just been there -- to Gettysburg -- and now I'm obsessed. Maybe not obsessed in the way so many of my Southern brethren ...

A friend (DS) sent me the speech made by Julian Carr at the dedication of Silent Sam, the Civil War monument on the campus of UNC-Chapel H...

WRAL I agree with Gov. Roy Cooper : There's probably a better way to do this. Like getting these Civil War symbols off public land...

1. Union County : "There'll be no memorial to 'loyal slaves' on our courthouse lawn." Decision NOT "based on race...

Am now reading James L. Swanson's "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer," the meticulously researched and juicil...

Just finished reading "The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant," all billion pages of it which was published originally in two fa...

Thanks to BrotherDoc for sharing this essay about the striking similarities between the pro-secession drumbeat in the South in 1860 and the...

Headlines today about school history textbooks being taught in Virginia caught our eye, primarily because of the claim in those textbooks t...