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by Brewing America | Jun 15, 2021 | All, Book Review, Books, Civil War, Confederacy, novels & short stories, slavery | 0 |
Nathan Harris’ extraordinary debut novel, The Sweetness of Water, takes place in the fictional town of Old Ox, Georgia, in the waning days of the Civil War. In the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, brothers Prentiss and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 30, 2020 | All, Confederacy, education | 0 |
“It’s a shame they make those boys play under Lee,” young Denise Gray heard her father muttering as he sat in his favorite living room chair, watching the Midland Robert E. Lee Rebels football team on TV, as it played Odessa’s...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 17, 2020 | All, Confederacy, Fraternity, News, Politics, Race | 0 |
In 2015, the year I enrolled at Southwestern University in Georgetown, the campus chapter of Kappa Alpha Order removed a portrait of Robert E. Lee that had hung over the fraternity house’s fireplace. The general had been, and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 3, 2020 | All, Confederacy, confederate heroes day, History, Jarvis Johnson, News, Politics, texas legislature | 0 |
One of Texas’s most enduring memorials to the Confederacy isn’t a statue cast in bronze or a plaque dedicated to the Lost Cause. It’s a state holiday the Texas Legislature created in 1973, more than one hundred years after the...
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