Southern History Series: Florida’s Peninsula In The ‘New South’
In the Gilded Age, two Yankee railroad barons raced to develop the Florida Peninsula
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Southern History Series: The Southernization of La Florida
The Florida Cracker settled in La Florida and made it a Southern state in the image of Florida Man
Southern History Series: The Republic of West Florida
In 1810, the United States invaded and annexed the short lived Republic of West Florida
Southern History Series: Georgia: The Failed White Utopia
Georgia was originally intended to be a White ethnostate
Southern History Series: Sen. Robert Toombs Farewell Speech
Robert Toombs argues the questions of slavery and racial equality were up to the people of Georgia to decide
Southern History Series: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens on the Causes of The War Between the States
Why did the Southern states secede from the Union? What was the cause of the War Between the States?
Southern History Series: The Gadsden Flag
Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina, the “Sam Adams of the South,” designed the Gadsden Flag
Southern History Series: The Demographics of Revolutionary South Carolina
Who are the people of South Carolina? Where did they come from?
Southern History Series: Country Ideology In Colonial South Carolina
South Carolinians derived their ideas about liberty which fueled the American Revolution from the “country ideology” of the mid-18th century British opposition
Southern History Series: An Ode To Another Time
A paean to militant Southern nostalgia
Southern History Series: James D.B. DeBow on The Non-Slaveholders of the South
James D.B. De Bow’s Top 10 reasons why the interests of Southern slaveholders and non-slaveholders are identical in the secession crisis
Southern History Series: The Battle of Liberty Place (1874)
In 1874, the White League fought a pitched battle against General James Longstreet in the streets of New Orleans
Southern History Series: The White League of Louisiana
The White League was formed in 1874 as a resistance organization to overthrow Reconstruction in Louisiana
Southern History Series: The Texas Revolution and Anglo-Saxonism
Sam Houston fought the Texas Revolution with the Texian standard of the single star, borne by the Anglo-Saxon race to extend their dominion across North America
Southern History Series: John H. Reagan on Texas Secession
The irrepressible conflict caused by abolitionism finally bore the fruit of disunion in Texas
Southern History Series: Texas Declaration of Secession
Texas seceded from the Union to remain a White Republic
Southern History Series: Nathaniel Macon on Jeffersonian Democracy
Mr. Jefferson’s democracy is of the White family
Southern History Series: Hinton Rowan Helper’s Negroes In Negroland (1868)
In the aftermath of the War Between the States, Hinton Rowan Helper dreamed of building a transcontinental railroad to deport all blacks from the United States
Southern History Series: Sen. Zebulon Vance on the Federal Elections Bill of 1890
In opposing the Federal Elections Bill of 1890, Sen. Zebulon Vance bitterly recounts the experience of Reconstruction in North Carolina
Southern History Series: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech
The Confederacy was built on the cornerstone of the acceptance of natural inequality
Southern History Series: Alabama Secession Commissioner Stephen F. Hale’s Letter to Kentucky
Alabama seceded from the Union to avoid being degraded to a position of equality with free negroes
Southern History Series: William Lowndes Yancey on The Temple of Our Liberty
William Lowndes Yancey, “the Prince of the Fire Eaters,” was Alabama’s great fire eater and played a pivotal role in the dissolution of the Union in 1861
Southern History Series: The History of July the 4th
Once upon a time, American Nationalism collapsed in the South
Southern History Series: Antebellum Christianity and Southern Racialism
History shows that evangelical Christianity is what the present generation makes of it
Southern History Series: Robert E. Lee on Racial Differences
Robert E. Lee was a humane race realist
Southern History Series: Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and The Partisan Leader
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker was an architect of Confederate nationalism and wrote the SIEGE of his generation
Southern History Series: Robert E. Lee on White Separatism
Robert E. Lee thought Virginia would be better off if all the blacks left and moved to the Deep South
Southern History Series: Review: Planting an Empire
A book review of Jean B. Russo and J. Elliot Russo’s Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America
Southern History Series: White Settlement In Colonial South Carolina
What are the ethnic origins of White South Carolinians?
Southern History Series: The Stono Rebellion
In South Carolina, the Stono Rebellion was the largest slave uprising in colonial America
Southern History Series: The Yamasee War
In Colonial South Carolina, White racial attitudes were shaped by a brutal race war with the Indians
Southern History Series: Rep. John Rankin Calls Out The International Communist Conspiracy Behind World War II
Rep. John Rankin of Mississippi has been called “the most notorious” anti-Semite who ever sat in Congress