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5 Jan 2024, 6:06 am
Why prohibit an insurrectionist who had previously served one term in a state legislature from subsequent office-holding, but allow the election of a fellow insurrectionist who may have committed even more egregious acts but merely had been a county commissioner or not held office in the past? [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Federation and Secession, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 4:52 pm
It all starts in Orange County, North Carolina. [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 4:52 pm
It all starts in Orange County, North Carolina. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 11:01 am
Bibbs titled Living historian sheds new light on Civil War general in the Anderson, Indiana Herald Bulletin on October 5, 2019 contains the text from a talk in MIDDLETOWN:Those in attendance learned Grant and his wife, Julia, owned slaves, that Lee never was asked to surrender his bejeweled saber and that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave.(...)The historical lecture, “The Surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House,” was presented Saturday [October 5]… [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 1:01 am
On October 7, the sheriff of Coahoma County reported a “perfect state of terror” in his jurisdiction. [read post]
11 May 2017, 2:30 am
Racially Segregated WWI memorial at King George County, Virginia, Courthouse. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 1:19 pm
Ginsburg borrowed from her dissent in Shelby County v. [read post]
1 Jan 2016, 9:39 am
Geographic Scope: “Roanoke City, Roanoke County, Botetourt County, Bedford County, Montgomery County, the City of Salem, Franklin County, Floyd County, Henry County, Rockbridge County, Campbell County, Amherst County, Appomattox County, Alleghany County, and the cities of Martinsville, Buena Vista, Lynchburg, Lexington, and Christiansburg, and the Town of Blacksburg. [read post]
1 Jan 2016, 9:39 am
Geographic Scope: “Roanoke City, Roanoke County, Botetourt County, Bedford County, Montgomery County, the City of Salem, Franklin County, Floyd County, Henry County, Rockbridge County, Campbell County, Amherst County, Appomattox County, Alleghany County, and the cities of Martinsville, Buena Vista, Lynchburg, Lexington, and Christiansburg, and the Town of Blacksburg. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 8:34 am
(This is also the county that closed its schools in the 1960s rather than integrate -- so there's some really intense struggle in that county that's worthy of comment down the road.) [read post]
24 Aug 2014, 9:05 pm
” [Zachary Schrag; related speech] “At Appomattox County [Va.] [read post]
10 Aug 2014, 9:59 pm
There are also a series of books that take long looks at free people in the old South, such as Melvin Ely's Israel on the Appomattox and Kirt von Daakce's Freedom Has a Face, which is about free people in Albemarle County, Virginia (where UVA is located). [read post]
19 May 2014, 4:09 am
For instance, the 1921 monument at Appomattox refers to "principles believed fundamental. [read post]
15 Mar 2014, 8:39 am
Colonial Heights City Originally part of Chesterfield County and then a town, Colonial Heights was incorporated as a Virginia city in 1948, with a population of 17,400 encompassed in 7.52 square miles sharing borders with the Counties of Chesterfield and Prince George and the City of Petersburg, as defined by the Appomattox River. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 12:56 pm
So it was a century ago at Appomattox. [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 2:10 am
Melvin Ely's brilliant, expansive, and beautifully written Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of that community, largely from court and probate records. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 10:00 am
" This is in some tension with a monument at Appomattox Court House, whose monument speaks of "principles believed fundamental. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 12:33 pm
On April 4, 1865, just days before General Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Union Army General John T. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 9:36 am
Daniels was arrested in June, and charged in Appomattox County, the location of the Virginia State Police tip line. [read post]
