The Board of Trustees for UNC-Chapel Hill will make suggestions by Nov. 15 about what to do with Silent Sam, the campus’s controversial Confederate statue torn down by protesters, members of the university system’s Board of Governors say
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commission: State Should Augment Confederate Monuments at Capitol with Inclusive Historical TributesThe N.C. Historical Commission said it is hamstrung by state law and a legislature that won't allow controversial Confederate monuments on the old Capitol grounds in Raleigh to be moved
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper shared the following statement in response to today's Historical Commission meeting
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 @ 10:35 am
By: Governor's Office
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I studied history at a college with a Confederate soldier monument during the biggest progressive social upheaval since the 1960's
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If critics of Confederate monuments truly want to accomplish their goal of removing such objects from the public square, I'm a good example of the kind of person they ought to be trying to persuade
Published: Saturday, August 18th, 2018 @ 2:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new Civitas poll of North Carolina likely voters reveals how voters feel about local and national issues, including school choice, the Confederate monument controversy, and partisan politics
Published: Saturday, December 23rd, 2017 @ 1:15 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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What Do Schools Teach about N.C. Monuments and Statues?
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 10:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Suggesting Gov. Roy Cooper belongs to a group of "opportunistic politicians trying to drive a wedge further between us," on Thursday Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, offered his first detailed response to the week's protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Durham
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The question is: Was the Civil War fought over the issue of Slavery?
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 10:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In a post on the Medium.com website, on Tuesday Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper called for the removal or relocation of monuments honoring Confederates from state property
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a new Medium post, Governor Roy Cooper today shared his thoughts on North Carolina’s confederate monuments
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 11:59 am
By: Governor's Office
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When the oppressed take over from the oppressor, they usually remove all the statues and reminders of their former masters.
Published: Sunday, June 25th, 2017 @ 8:36 am
By: Bobby Tony
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William Ellison Jr., born April Ellison, (c. April 1790 - December 5, 1861) was a cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, a free Negro and former slave who achieved considerable success in business before the American Civil War.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2017 @ 12:48 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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"The 26th day of April in each year - commonly known as Memorial Day."
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 @ 8:31 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Jefferson Davis' worse fears came true. The big government of Abraham Lincoln, the greatest tyrant our country has ever known, has co-opted and crafted the "great lie" of why our country fought the Civil War.
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2016 @ 12:13 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Help fight the PC War on the South by learning the true history of the Confederacy at the Abbeville Institute Convention Feb. 27-28 in Charleston, SC
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 12:58 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Was Atlanta really a City to Busy to Hate or Just too Busy to Care
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 3:41 am
By: Bobby Tony
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In June, a low-life nutcase loser took a loaded weapon into a church in Charleston, South Carolina and shot the place up. Instead of taking it at face-value as the horrible crime and tragedy it was, the left politicized the hell out of it.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 10:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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After a digilent search throught his Ancestory.com files, Bobby Tony finds a few rebels in the tree.
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 9:39 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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We know it’s a major component of the left’s campaign strategy for 2016: demagogue the Confederate flag and make Southern Republicans PROVE they are not racists. It’s a move that would make Big Barry and Saul Alinsky’s rotting corpse proud.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 12:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Left has had a field day blaming a whole lot of terrible things on the fact that Confederate flag imagery even exists.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 9:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after a political news conference held by the North Carolina NAACP regarding the issuance of license plates that bear the image of the confederate battle flag.
Published: Sunday, July 26th, 2015 @ 1:30 am
By: McCrory Communications
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I make no apologies here: I am a Southerner as a condition of birth and by lineage - both parents were Southerners.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Governor's Office issued the following statement after petitions were delivered calling on the governor to stop the issuance of specialty license plates that bear the image of the Confederate battle flag.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 3:33 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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I Took a STAND AGAINST CENSORSHIP. If government can censor one type of speech; it can censor any type of speech. (I'm talking about our state governments right now).
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 5:20 am
By: Diane Rufino
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It is indeed time to rethink a relic of the South's legacy of racism - progressivism.
Published: Sunday, July 19th, 2015 @ 2:08 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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ObamaCare is crippling the economy and killing what has been the greatest health care system in the world. And the drivebys and the politicians are focused on the Confederate flag.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 6:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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This has been one of the most trying months in America leading up to July 4. We have the tragic shooting in SC with their Legislature now debating whether to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from their complex.
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 @ 9:17 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Maybe we need to read history before we start changing it.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that had allowed the American Civil Liberties Union to censor North Carolina’s “Choose Life” message, which the state legislature voted to make available on a specialty license plate.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 4:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Well, the run-up to South Carolina's presidential primary is already underway. It's an every-four-years ritual.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 5:47 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Yesterday’s news was full of the “Great Flag Controversy.” I was born in Pickens County. SC, while my father was Pastor of the Liberty First Baptist Church.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 5:21 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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It does not make any difference what you meant, it is all about who does the translation
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 11:34 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I read a book about the estimated 50,000 Black soldiers who wore the CSA uniform and fought in numerous battles.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 4:02 am
By: Ted McDonald
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