Southern History Series: Bilbo’s Prophecy
Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi predicted that the “floodgates of hell” would be opened up by integration and that interracial rape would explode in the South
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Southern History Series: A Governor Bitterly Opposes Negro Education
At the dawn of the 20th century, agrarian populists triumphed over conservative elites in many of the Southern states
Southern History Series: How Mississippi Joined The Union
Regime change wars from Mississippi to Syria
Southern History Series: Mississippi’s Secession Declaration
Why did Mississippi secede from the Union?
Southern History Series: The Day Mississippi Almost Revolted The Second Time
The Battle of Oxford in 1962 could have easily taken an explosive course which would have altered history
Southern History Series: Mississippi Secession Commissioner William L. Harris Addresses the Georgia Secession Convention
Mississippi seceded from the Union to protect a government based on equality of rights secured to White men in equal sovereign states
Southern History Series: Review: Mississippi’s War: Slavery and Secession
A review of a documentary on Mississippi’s course to secession and experience during the War Between the States
Southern History Series: Review: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
A book review of Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Southern History Series: Knights of the Golden Circle, Order of the Lone Star and Northern Mexico
The Mexican states of Nuevo León and Coahuila offered to secede from Mexico to join the Confederacy
Southern History Series: Race War! The Origins of White Nationalism
The 1622 massacre of English settlers in Jamestown in a surprise attack was America’s first race war and decisively shaped Southern attitudes toward American Indians
Southern History Series: The Origins of New England and Virginia
They were diametric opposites
Southern History Series: The Emergence of White Identity In The Chesapeake
The evolution of White identity in the Chesapeake
Southern History Series: The Virginia Model
Early Virginians were inspired by the Spanish model of conquest
Southern History Series: Review: An Empire Divided
A book review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
Southern History Series: The Sacred Circle
In the 1840s and 1850s, Southern intellectuals began to chart a path forward out of classical liberalism derived from the organicist tradition of Romanic social theory
Southern History Series: Thomas Jefferson’s Anglo-Saxon Identitarianism
Thomas Jefferson was hardly a modern deracinated liberal
American History Series: Review: American Insurgents, American Patriots
A book review of T.H. Breen’s American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
Southern History Series: Thomas Carlyle’s Influence on George Fitzhugh
According to Thomas Carlyle, liberalism naturally weakens and degenerates the social fabric by driving “assiduous wedges” in every joint of social existence
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led economic modernization
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh Attacks Liberalism
In the 1850s, Southern political theorist George Fitzhugh attacks the philosophical foundations of Northern liberalism and free-market capitalism
Southern History Series: Ulrich B. Phillips on The Central Theme of Southern History
The essence of Southern history is the common resolve of White folks that Dixie shall remain a White Man’s Country
Southern History Series: The True Question: A Contest for the Supremacy of Race, as Between the Saxon Puritan of the North, and the Norman of the South (1861)
The Confederate war aim was to replace a flailing Democratic Republic which suffered from the excesses of liberalism with a Patrician Republic based on “ethnological facts”
Southern History Series: Thomas Jefferson on Sectional Differences
In a 1785 letter to the Marquis de Chastellux, Thomas Jefferson characterized the differences between Northerners and Southerners
Southern History Series: Allen Tate on Social Justice
In Allen Tate’s poetry, order and civilization take precedence over the claims of equality and social justice
Southern History Series: The Rebel Yell
Confederate veterans let loose the real rebel yell
Southern History Series: Religion and the Scots-Irish Frontier Experience
White Southerners largely came to the New World from Great Britain as Anglicans and Presbyterians, but later became Baptists and Methodists. Why did this happen?
Southern History Series: German Romanticism’s Impact on the Antebellum South
The American South was heavily influenced by the organicist tradition of Romantic social theory
Southern History Series: Review: Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
A book review of Elizabeth R. Varon’s Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Southern History Series: Kentucky Unionism
Why was Kentucky so reluctant to secede from the Union?
Southern History Series: Review: Shifting Grounds: Nationalism & the American South, 1848-1865
A book review of Paul Quigley’s Shifting Grounds: Nationalism & the American South, 1848-1865
Southern History Series: The Birth of Whiteness
White identity was forged in the crucible of sugar and slavery in the British Caribbean
Southern History Series: Review: Hubs of Empire
A book review of Matthew Mulcahy’s Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean