Southern Politics
June 19, 2009 -
As we celebrate Juneteenth today, here's a short piece explaining the holiday that we ran on Facing South last year. Enjoy! Today is Juneteenth,a holiday marking the day that, in 1865, slaves in Texas were finallytold they were free -- two months and 10 days after Robert E. Leesurrendered to Ullyses S. Grant at Appomattox.The slave mastershad never bothered to tell them that slavery was officially over in1863; it took Union General Gordon Granger riding into Galveston with
June 11, 2009 -
At today's memorial for John Hope Franklin at Duke University, playwright Emily Mann -- daughter of historian Arthur Mann, a close friend of Franklin's -- related one of many illuminating personal stories about the pioneering historian and scholar.
June 11, 2009 -
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Inspector General released an audit this week
May 28, 2009 -
Speaking yesterday to an American Legion youth program in Jackson, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he has thought about running for president -- but that he won't think about it anymore until after 2010.
May 27, 2009 -
Political pundits routinely dismiss the South as a region that's losing relevance -- but the U.S. public appears to have missed the memo.
May 26, 2009 -
With the Supreme Court now considering one of the most serious challenges to the 1965 Voting Rights Act in history -- and states battling over election law, like voter ID in Texas --