Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Environment
A book review of Martin V. Melosi’s book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Environment
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Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry (Agriculture)
A book review of Melissa Walker and James C. Cobb’s The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Southern History Series: Review: Colonial South Carolina: A History
A book review of Robert M. Weir’s Colonial South Carolina: A History
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Southern History Series: Maryland vs. Abraham Lincoln
According to Gen. George McClellan, Maryland was poised to secede in 1861 and join the Confederacy
Southern History Series: The Dred Scott Decision
In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney methodically used history and law to explain why blacks are not American citizens and how the Constitution was written only for the European posterity of the Founders
Southern History Series: Maryland, My Maryland
The first blood spilled in the War Between the States was in Baltimore in 1861
Southern History Series: The Red Neck War
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 was quelled by the U.S. Army
Southern History Series: The Secret History of West Virginia
West Virginia was occupied by the Union Army and illegally torn from Virginia by a cabal in Wheeling
Southern History Series: Forging The Ethnostate
West Virginia originally banned all blacks in its state constitution
Southern History Series: The Kansas-Missouri Border War
Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr.’s General Order No.11 ethnically cleansed four counties in western Missouri
Southern History Series: How Missouri Joined The Union
General Nathaniel Lyon launched a putsch that decapitated Missouri’s state government
Southern History Series: Slavery In Missouri
Changing demographics thwarted secession in Missouri
Southern History Series: The Okie Exodus
2.5 million people left the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and most went to California and Arizona
Southern History Series: Sooner Socialism
Oklahoma used to be a stronghold of populism and socialism
Rebel Yell: American Nations, The Deep South
Michael Cushman on the history and culture of the Lower South
Southern History Series: The State of Sequoyah
The State of Sequoyah attempted to join the Union as an ethnostate for Native Americans. It was rejected.
Southern History Series: The Integration of Central High School
Segregation was an international embarrassment for the American Empire during the Cold War
Southern History Series: Illiberal Ethnostates In Northern Arkansas
Northern Arkansas has a long history of racial violence and illiberalism
Southern History Series: Karl Marx For Hillbillies
Gov. Jeff Davis was a populist who won the greatest landslide in Arkansas political history
Southern History Series: L.Q.C. Lamar II on Reconstruction Mississippi
Reconstruction Mississippi was the saddest and the blackest tyranny that ever cursed this earth
Southern History Series: Jefferson Davis’s Exile In Canada
Ex-Confederate President Jefferson Davis was welcomed in Canada as a fallen hero
Southern History Series: Gov. John Jones Pettus on Black Republicanism and Mississippi Secession
Mississippi had to secede from the Union to avoid becoming a blighted land cursed with free negro morals which would be a cesspool of vice, crime and infamy
Southern History Series: Slavery In Kentucky
Antebellum Kentuckians saw slavery as a curse that was being naturally drained away by the hand of Providence
Southern History Series: The Kentuckian Diaspora
Kentuckians spilled over their borders and colonized neighboring states
Southern History Series: Sen. Henry Clay Condemns Abolitionism
Harry of the West condemned abolitionism out of concern for the liberty of his own race and posterity
Southern History Series: Spirit of the South
The Eufaula Regency spearhearded the secession movement in Southeast Alabama
Southern History Series: The Settlement of Southeast Alabama
A personal story of settler-colonialism on the Alabama frontier
Southern History Series: Race War! The Fort Mims Massacre
In 1813, the Red Sticks faction of the Creek Indians launched a genocide against White settlers in Alabama
Southern History Series: President Andrew Johnson’s Third Annual Message
In his Third Annual Message to Congress, President Andrew Johnson denounced the Radical Republican plan for Congressional Reconstruction
Southern History Series: Review: Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War
The Reconstruction era was defined by violence
Southern History Series: Memphis Torchlight Processions
In February 1861, Unionists and Southern Nationalists held dueling torchlight parades through Memphis