Black History Month 2014: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Faustin I Soulouque
Haiti Of all the Haitian presidents of the nineteenth century, Emperor Faustin I Soulouque attracted the most foreign criticism, and is still considered by some […]
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Caribbean Project: Labadee, Hispanolia
Haiti Reading over Steve Sailer’s column “Why Haiti Is So Hopeless,” I am struck by how little attention is paid to the relative absence of tourism […]
Black History Month 2014: The Real Power Behind Baby Doc
Haiti In 1986, CBS aired a piece by Ed Bradley on the fall of Haiti’s “President-for-Life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier. “Baby Doc,” who ruled Haiti from 1971 […]
Caribbean Project: Benign Imperialism, US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean […]
GOP’s Big Amnesty Retreat
Maryland It has the conservative world on fire this afternoon. Such is my contempt for the Republican Party that I am bringing it up here […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars
Haiti Victor Bulmer-Thomas’ The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars is a massive 710 page analysis of the economic development of the Caribbean […]
Communist Pete Seeger Is Dead
New York Here’s some good news. Note: This is from Seeger’s Wikipedia biography, “Seeger was born at the French Hospital, Midtown Manhattan. His Yankee-Protestant family, […]
Amurrica Series: 2014 Grammy Awards
California AJ McCarron, the University of Alabama’s quarterback who recently graduated, watched the Grammy Awards and tweeted to his followers about the various “demonic” performances […]
Cobbsville: Kynan Dutton To Testify Against Craig Cobb
North Dakota Et tu, Kynan? … and now for something serious: “(Reuters) – A man charged with threatening residents of a small North Dakota town […]
Caribbean Project: Explaining The Caribbean
Caribbean I’m finally wrapping up my research. At the outset of the “Caribbean Project,” I wanted to investigate 1.) how the culture of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: The Collapse of Caribbean Agriculture
Caribbean In spite of all that has been written here about the Golden Circle, the sugar plantation in the Caribbean has gone the way of […]
Caribbean Project: Treasure Islands
Caribbean Here’s an interview with Nicholas Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens: Note: This explains what we […]
Caribbean Project: Economic Impact of the US Occupation In Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti During the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I was struck by the fact that even university professors and high school teachers who teach history to American […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Trade and Caribbean World Market Shares
Haiti In the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I came across the myth that Western countries essentially ganged up on Haiti and strangled its economy out of […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks of History in the aftermath of the […]
Caribbean Project: Cayman Islands vs. Haiti
Cayman Islands Imagine a place that is 60 percent multiracial, 20 percent black, and 20 percent White, but where 1.9 percent of the population lives […]
Caribbean Project: The Duvalierist Revolution
Haiti For several years now, I have used this blog to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies: in the dead of winter, usually during […]
Caribbean Project: Victor Schoelcher on Haiti
Haiti Victor Schoelcher, the most famous French abolitionist of the 19th century, whose life work culminated in the final abolition of slavery in the French […]
Share Your Ignorance
Alabama Browse through the personal library of Hunter Wallace: Note: Share with us your own books that have inspired so much hate!
Caribbean Project: The Demise of Haiti’s Sugar Industry
Haiti In 1789, there were 288 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Northern Province, 314 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Western Province, and 191 sugar plantations in Haiti’s […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti: The Usual Explanations
Haiti Editor’s Note: I’m compiling a list of the usual explanations for Haiti’s failure along with an explanation why each doesn’t make sense. The blows […]
Caribbean Project: Spenser St. John on Haitians
Haiti Here’s an excerpt from Spenser St. John’s “Hayti, or the Black Republic”: “The vexed question as to the position held by the negroes in […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Double Debt
Haiti Here’s something that you won’t find in the Wikipedia entry about Haiti’s external debt: “Although payments were occasionally suspended, partially during 1843-8 and 1867-9, […]
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Struck Down
Pennsylvania Here’s the latest proof of the futility of trying to reform the system: “In a strongly worded decision, a Pennsylvania state judge on Friday […]
Matt Heimbach on Nightline
ABC News Matt Heimbach and Trad Youth will be featured on ‘Nightline’ on ABC News tonight at 11:35 PM CST. Note: Get your popcorn ready.
Caribbean Project: Crossroads Haiti Debate
Haiti Editor’s Note: Here’s my latest response in the Crossroads Haiti Debate. No, but you routinely ignore it, opting instead to look at race inferiority […]
Federal Judge Strikes Down Oklahoma’s Gay Marriage Ban
Oklahoma I shouldn’t have to say it, but once again, the existence of the Union proves to be the cause of our misfortunes: “Oklahoma’s gay […]
Haiti Debate
Caribbean Sea Over at Crossroads, I am explaining in the comment section why Haiti evolved into Haiti, and why Haiti is so much worse off today […]
Florida’s Development In The 1920s
Florida Here’s an excerpt from Michael Gannon’s The History of Florida on the settlement of South and Central Florida during the land boom the 1920s: […]
Florida’s Peninsula In The ‘New South’
Florida During the Antebellum era and War Between the States, North Florida was fully integrated into the Deep South. Florida’s population was concentrated in “Middle […]
Florida Independence Day
Florida This really wasn’t a demonstration … just two Florida League members who wanted to celebrate the anniversary of Florida’s independence. Here’s an excerpt from […]
The White Ghetto
Kentucky National Review has a new article on poor White Southerners in Greater Appalachia: “Owsley County, Ky. – There are lots of diversions in the Big […]