Latino civil rights groups and Denver sued the Trump administration on Thursday, invoking a law Congress passed in the final months of the Civil War.
Air Force veteran Fred Miller bought a Virginia country house for family gatherings, then uncovered its plantation past and his own family’s connection to slavery. Miller purchased the fully furnished Sharswood house and 10.5 acres in May 2020. He later learned the property had once anchored a 1,300-acre plantation, 60 Minutes reported. Family research and […] The post Air Force veteran Fred Miller uncovers his family’s ties to Sharswood plantation appeared first on American Almanac .
Air Force veteran Fred Miller bought a Virginia country house for family gatherings, then uncovered its plantation past and his own family’s connection to slavery. Miller purchased the fully furnished Sharswood house and 10.5 acres in May 2020. He later learned the property had once anchored a 1,300-acre plantation, 60 Minutes reported . Family research and an examination by preservationists turned a real-estate purchase into something far more personal. Miller’s relatives traced their local roots while experts studied a deteriorating building believed to have housed enslaved people. Miller, then described as 57, was an Air Force veteran and civil engineer who worked for the service. He wanted land near his Virginia hometown where…Open
Dixie is dead, even if a few stray spirits remain to be exorcised. The post Why Virginia Is Still Toppling Statues appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Why Virginia Is Still Toppling Statues Dixie is dead, even if a few stray spirits remain to be exorcised. Mike Kropf/Richmond Times-Dispatch via Getty Images Thirty years ago, the New York Times journalist Peter Applebome wrote a book about the South. The title, Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture, said it all. Applebome surveyed the landscape of the mid-1990s and saw the Southerners Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott occupying the commanding heights of government; he saw states below the Mason-Dixon line booming economically and demographically; he saw…Open
The documents bolster allegations that the Sudanese military developed and used toxic bombs to gain an edge in the country’s devastating civil war.
Hundreds of thousands were killed and tortured. But prosecuting everyone involved in atrocities could be impractical and risk renewed civil strife.
Statues of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall Jackson,” Gov. William "Extra Billy" Smith and physician Hunter Holmes McGuire were removed six years after civil rights demonstrators in Richmond took down an iconic statue of Jefferson Davis.
Statues honoring Confederate Generals Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and Gov. William “Extra Billy” Smith, as well as Confederate Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire are no longer on display.
If you read social media, all you will hear is gloom, anger, and outrage bait because, unfortunately, our primitive brains LOVE THAT STUFF.
We may think we want to see sweet little puppies and hear good news, but every time that gets tested in the real world against “It’s over for us,” and “Can you believe that guy you don’t like said this outrageous thing?” the puppies are not the ones getting all the clicks. But is all this sea of negative, black-pilled, “We have no hope,” spin you hear in so many places realistic… or not? If we’re being honest, there’s never a simple answer to that. Every person, group, and country has some dark days. The Roman Empire was the greatest empire in all of recorded history, but imagine being them when the Gauls sacked Rome in 390 BC, when Hannibal killed more than 50,000 Roman soldiers on their own soil at the Battle of…Open
Art doesn’t predict the future, but it can be an early warning system.
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MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by celebrated author Kurt Andersen to discuss his fascinating new novel that imagines an America 20 years in the future where AOC is the president, Elon Musk "overdosed en route to Mars," and robots walk among us. In this fictitious America, multiple red states left the union to form their own country.