Over at Bloomberg, Frank Barry has an interesting post, “Racial Justice and the Long Shadow of Gettysburg”, from which I’ll extract a curious and thoroughly dispiriting snippet: It seems that the town of Gettysburg, Pa. has a “sister city”, Gettysburg, S.D., the relationship originating purely on the basis of the shared name. Recently, the Pennsylvania…
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Is the South finally going to look in the mirror? Well, which South do you mean?
Back in the day—way, way back in the day—in 1953, the day of McCarthy, as a matter of fact—southern historian C. Vann Woodword published a famous article, “The Irony of Southern History,” which began as follows: “In a time when nationalism sweeps everything else before it, as it does at present, the regional historian is…