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Petersburg lies at the head of navigation on the Appomattox River, twenty-three miles south of the Confederate capital at Richmond. Its role as a port contributed to its growth in the eighteenth and early in the nineteenth centuries. Railroads arrived in Petersburg in the 1830s, and by 1860 five lines converged in the city, making it one of the South’s leading transportation hubs. Petersburg also developed a vibrant manufacturing economy, with twenty tobacco factories, four cotton mills, and a number of iron foundries and flour mills. Petersburg’s 18,266 residents in 1860 were divided al...

Updated Friday, 26th February 2021, 12:48 pm Students at Winchester House School, in Brackley, were fascinated to hear a first-hand account of the Second World War from 101-year-old veteran Clifford Bilney. Students at Winchester House School, in Brackley, learned about the war during a Zoom chat with veteran Clifford Bilney. Mr Bilney, a resident at Brackley Care Home in Brackley, joined the youngsters via Zoom for a question and answer session, which spanned the changes he had seen and experienced in a century of life. Some of the questions asked by the school students, included if he was...

Second only to his fixation on "climate change" is President Biden's focus on "systemic racism." In addition to reinstating mandatory race theory training for federal employees, Biden proposes spending even more money we don't have to fix a problem beyond the government's reach. As with original sin, curing racism is best solved internally. It is a matter of the heart. - Advertisement - If racism is systemic, meaning it is embedded in white people, how is it possible to eliminate it? Do those on the receiving end of discrimination have a role to play? This is a question Democrats never addres...

Cal Thomas WASHINGTON — Second only to his fixation on “climate change” is President Biden’s focus on “systemic racism.” In addition to reinstating mandatory race theory training for federal employees, Biden proposes spending even more money we don’t have to fix a problem beyond the government’s reach. As with original sin, curing racism is best solved internally. It is a matter of the heart. If racism is systemic, meaning it is embedded in white people, how is it possible to eliminate it? Do those on the receiving end of discrimination have a role to play? This is a question...

The best approach to eliminating, or at least reducing, racism is success.