Southern History Series: John Crowe Ransom On Progress
The Southern idea vs. the American idea
The Southern idea vs. the American idea
What is real and authentic Southern conservatism? It has nothing whatsoever in common with “mainstream conservatism”
Documentary: Jim Webb’s Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish
How was Judeo-Christian Zionism transplanted to Dixie during the poverty of the New South?
A book review of Wayne Flynt’s Alabama In The Twentieth Century
From sharecropping to space in a generation
From Confederate Alabama to Colonial Alabama
Jeffersonianism retarded Alabama’s economic development
Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
In the aftermath of the War Between the States, ex-Confederate soldiers were forced to “swallow the dog”
A book review of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
A Virginia judge has ruled the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson monuments in Charlottesville are protected as war memorials by state law
A book review of Michael Lind’s Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
A book review of C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
In the Backcountry, the meaning of liberty was symbolized by the rattlesnake. It meant leave me alone
A book review of Richard B. Drake’s A History of Appalachia
In the antebellum era, Appalachia had an economy on par with the rest of the South, but after the War Between the States it was ruthlessly exploited by Northern capitalists
It is springtime in Dixie which means it is time to wake up and smell the azaleas
How Central Appalachia was ravaged, exploited and underdeveloped by free-market capitalism
The economic impact of free-trade on Southern manufacturing since the passage of NAFTA and the WTO
How our trip to see the home of Jesse James was cut short
How the Southern forests were stripped bare and looted by Northern and European capitalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
The Missouri River Valley was settled by Southerners like Jesse James who was the first to “Secure the Bag”
In the early 20th century, a privately owned railroad network under free-market capitalism kept the Southern economy in thrall to Northern Robber Barons
In the Mississippi of the 1890s, populists began to revolt against the conservative Bourbon Democrats, and eventually elected Gov. James K. Vardaman as their “Great White Chief.” He later became a US Senator from Mississippi
After the War Between the States, two dozen timber companies clear cut 60% of the Great Smoky Mountains, which is the most biologically diverse place in North America
In the 20th century, Southerners built national and state parks to conserve our environment and to allow everyone to enjoy nature, which wasn’t possible under the previous system
We’ve given lolbertarians a hard time lately but there is something in this for them too
A stroll through history and the ecological devastation caused by free-market capitalism
The culture has honestly declined from what it once was
Southwest Georgia has its own miniature version of the Grand Canyon
Sharecropping in the South was abolished in a generation by technology and investment
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