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The Associated Press - RESACA, Ga A planned power line that will run through a Civil War battlefield has thrown another obstacle in front of preservationists who have spent years trying to turn the land into a historic park. The Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal agency that serves much of north Georgia, has announced that [...]
My speech to the Gainesville Kiwanis Club on Confederate History & Heritage Month By Lewis Regenstein 10 April, 2007 Thank you, I am honored to be here today with the Gainesville Kiwanis Club, and to speak before such a distinguished group, on the occasion of Confederate History and Heritage Month. The observance of this month [...]
By: Brett King The Declaration of Independence lists the "train of abuses" committed by the British government that led the colonists to seek independence. Less than 100 years later, President Abraham Lincoln committed most, if not all, of those abuses. On Monday we marked 198 years since Lincoln's birth. But what has been left out [...]
By Walter E. Williams Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Both chambers of the Commonwealth of Virginia's General Assembly passed a resolution saying government-sanctioned slavery "ranks as the most horrendous of all depredations of human rights and violations of our founding ideals in our nation's history; and . . . the abolition of slavery was followed by [...]
By ELISSA ROSEN Special to The Sun History books about the South are full of misconceptions and myths, says author and University of Florida graduate Clint Johnson. In fact, says Johnson, the South was responsible for inventing many art forms and was an integral part in founding America. Johnson, who graduated from the UF College [...]
Web Posted: 01/19/2007 San Antonio Express-News Ted Nugent, the "Motor City Madman" whose electric guitar-laden music has had a "Stranglehold" on classic rock radio stations since the 1970s, is worthy of a new nickname. "Teflon Ted," it seems, can wear a symbol many Texans consider a distasteful reminder of the South's slaveholder past, and no [...]
Al Benson Jr. As anyone that has followed the torturous trail of heritage violations in this country in recent years knows, government schools have often been in the lead when it has come to trying to ban or do away with any symbol that might seen Southern or Confederate. This has been the rule of [...]
Al Benson Jr. As the promotion of cultural genocide continues in government schools throughout the South, some families seem to have found a new way to fight back--lawsuits against the government school entities that seem to be promoting and upholding the attempts to destroy Southern culture for the next generation. A couple cases I recently [...]
By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. | The Sons of Confederate Veterans plans to try and counter NAACP efforts to prevent South Carolina colleges from hosting postseason tournaments as the civil rights group presses sanctions against the state for flying the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds here. "Nobody really seems to be making [...]
The death of Robert E. Lee Date published: 10/12/2006 KENNESAW, Ga.--Americans love a good story of their nation's past. Please share this story with your family that I dedicate to our American servicemen and women defending this nation. Robert E. Lee, who died on Oct. 12, 1870, is honored throughout this great nation. The world-famous [...]
