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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Ben Jones, who starred as the mechanic Cooter in the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, isn’t a big fan of NASCAR these days. Jones, a former U.S. congressman from Georgia, was dismayed that NASCAR nixed a plan for golfer Bubba Watson to drive the General Lee car from the hit television series...
A north Phoenix business owner has removed a Confederate flag after The Arizona Republic stopped by to inquire about the controversial flag. The flag of the Southern Confederacy has been divisive since the Civil War ended. For some, it is a symbol of slavery and racism. For others, it honors the Southern heritage and states’ rights....
Facing criticism, a West St. Paul City Council member says he has removed a Confederate flag from the back deck of his house. But Ed Hansen didn’t take the banner down because of negative community reaction. Rather, he said at Monday night‘s city council meeting, the flag had become a distraction because people “wanted...
lso known as “The Birth of a Nation; or the Clansman“. Controversially racist D.W. Griffith film depicting the lives of two families, one Northern and one Southern, from before the Civil War and into Reconstruction. The families’ servants epitomize the worst racial stereotypes and as the nation is ravaged by war, the slaves and...
There are many great Robert E. Lee Quotes that illustrate the wisdom of the great leader of the Confederates cause during the American Civil War. “Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.” “Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You...
A Missouri school district that once banned books from the library after a complaint they were contrary to biblical teachings has again entered contentious territory, this time by ordering a student to remove a Confederate flag from his pickup truck. Riley Collier, 16, said the administration at Republic High School pulled his campus driving...
Whether you are traveling East or West — U.S. Highway 290 is a busy, well-traveled highway. And along the way you’ll find attractive, eye-catching billboards with a message. But if you take a closer look — you’ll find there is more that meets the eye. Whether you are traveling East or West — U.S....
Confederate General Robert Edward Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during most of the Civil War and his brilliant battlefield leadership earned him a reputation as one of the greatest military leaders in history as he consistently defeated larger Union armies. Share on Facebook
COLUMBUS — Of all the sounds at Columbus’ National Civil War Naval Museum — cannon fire, recorded ocean waves and narration — the one retiring director Bruce Smith likes to talk about is the gasp. It’s the gasp of visitors seeing the enormity of the CSS Jackson. The burned hull is the museum’s...
A retired USC linguistics professor is tapping into forgotten caches of Civil War letters written by soldiers as part of his life’s work to document the lost dialect of the South.Along the way, Michael Montgomery and a colleague in Missouri expect to create a website of transcribed letters from the 1860s that would...
