American History Series: Review: Saints and Strangers
A book review of Joseph A. Conforti’s Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America
American North
American History Series: Race Relations In Colonial New England
Early Puritan settlers welcomed the extermination of the Indians
Southern History Series: Review: At the Edge of Empire
A book review of Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancell’s At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America
Review: The Case for Nationalism
A book review of Rich Lowry’s The Case for Nationalism
Bruce Springsteen: Trump Doesn’t Grasp The Deep Meaning Of What It Means To Be An American
What does it mean to be an American?
White Guilt Is Driving The Democratic Primaries
Will it alienate moderate White voters in the Deep North?
American History Series: Review: The Second Founding
A book review of Eric Foner’s The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
American History Series: The Civil Rights Act of 1875
America’s first experiment with integration was struck down by the Supreme Court
American History Series: The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was the coup de grace to the White Republic
American History Series: How Civil Rights Happened
The Northern states continued to press forward with “civil rights” after Reconstruction
American History Series: The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment is effectively a Second Constitution
American History Series: The Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 established birthright citizenship
American History Series: Deliverance Politics
During the War Between the States, the North and South each sought deliverance from the opposing side
American History Series: Abolition and Racial Equality
A genealogy of anti-racism traces the roots of racial equality back to the Deep North in the Second Great Awakening
Southern History Series: Podcast: Damn Yankees!
An interview with George Rable author of “Damn Yankees!: Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South”
American History Series: Review: Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
A book review of Jack P. Greene’s Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
American History Series: Review: America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation
A book review of David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation
American History Series: From Puritan To Yankee
Who are the Yankees? What are their origins?
American History Series: The Origins of New England and Virginia
A comparison of the historical development of the New England and Chesapeake colonies
American History Series: Charles G. Finney, William Lloyd Garrison and Northern Perfectionism
Why is the Northeast so weird? An introduction to The Yankee Question in American culture and politics
American History Series: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
The American North has hardly always been a multiracial paradise
American History Series: Who Is Uncle Sam?
Uncle Sam and the rise of racial equality in the American North
American History Series: Review: The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
A book review of William W. Freehling’s The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
American History Series: Review: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
A book review of Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
American History Series: Review: Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
A book review of Gordon S. Wood’s Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Civic Nationalism Series: Northern Jim Crow Laws
Benjamin Garland misrepresents the history of the Northern states
Escape from Illinois: Demographics & Deficits
An important story from Illinois is now making national headlines. The state is broke and can’t service its debt or fully fund a variety of […]
War Against The South: Old Georgia State Flag Provokes Shooting In Lilburn, GA
More shots fired over Confederate themed flag
“About A Thousand People” Rally Against Illegal Immigration … In Boston, Massachusetts
If you had told me a UFO had landed on the grounds of the Massachusetts state capitol, I would be no less surprised: “BOSTON (CBS)- […]
Abolition and Racial Equality
New England Here’s an excerpt below from Paul Goodman’s Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. I’m really enjoying this book. There […]
Of One Blood: Abolition and the Origins of Racial Equality
New England My copy arrived this afternoon:
Polling Data on Northern Racial Attitudes
American North Here’s another excerpt from Sweet Land of Liberty on the shift in White Northern racial attitudes after World War II: “The struggle over equality […]