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A Sept. 1868 cartoon in Alabama's Independent Monitor, threatening that the Ku Klux Klan (represented by a Democratic donkey, reflecting the status of the Klan at the time as a functional auxiliary of the contemporary Southern Democratic Party) would lynch scalawags (left) and carpetbaggers (right) on March 4, 1869, predicted as the first day of Democrat Horatio Seymour's presidency (the ...
James Alex Baggett (born February 2, 1932 [1]) is an American historian, author, and former university dean.He worked at Union University and wrote a book about it.. In 2003 his talk on his book about "Scalawags" was aired on C-Span. [2]
The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1993). Baggett, James Alex. The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003), a statistical study of 732 Scalawags and 666 Redeemers. Blum, Edward J., and W. Scott Poole, eds. Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction. Mercer University Press, 2005.
A 21-year-old Norwegian woman has become the youngest person to reach the South Pole on skis, solo and without assistance, her team told AFP on Tuesday. Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat ...
In 1997, Diana Preston published A First-Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole, a documentation of Scott's expeditions. While she admits some of Scott's weaknesses such as his short temper and jumpy style of decision-making, she also gives mitigating aspects to every questionable event.
Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there. The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South ...
The group was a secretive network of dens, across the post-war South, where ex-Confederate reactionaries having a good horse and a gun, threatened, assaulted and murdered politically active black people and their allies for political power in a system newly dominated by those whom the unreconstructed termed "niggers, carpetbaggers and scalawags."
A projection of the South Pole Wall in celestial coordinates. The South Pole Wall (SPW or The South Pole Wall) is a massive cosmic structure formed by a giant wall of galaxies (a galaxy filament) that extends across at least 1.37 billion light-years of space, the nearest light (and consequently part) [a] of which is aged about half a billion light-years.