Jews and Northern Integration
American North As I said in the OD comments, there’s no shortage of discussion of the Jewish Question in Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: […]
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Northern Racial Attitudes and Integration
American North Here’s an excerpt from Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North about the shift in […]
Northern State Civil Rights Laws
American North Here’s an interesting excerpt from Sweet Land of Liberty about the North’s civil rights laws at the state level: “What made northern racial […]
Northern Fair Employment Practice Laws
American North Until I read this, I had been disappointed that Thomas J. Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty was ignoring the passage of civil rights […]
Quakers and Civil Rights
American North Skipping ahead in Sweet Land of Liberty, I see the Jews and their allies are covered at some length: “A small, dissenting denomination, […]
Sweet Land of Liberty
American North I bought this book on sale last month when I was in St. Louis. It is about the forgotten history of the Civil Rights […]
Rivers of Blood: The Maine Connection
Maine While the League of the South is focused on Southern Demographic Displacement in Middle Tennessee, it is important to keep in mind that this […]
Bicausalism Type B: The Immigration Act of 1965
District of Corruption Kevin MacDonald writes: “Sorry, but I have to go with Joe on this one—probably the only area I would prefer Biden’s views […]
Review: America Aflame
United States, 1834-1876 David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation is a sweeping antiwar take on the Civil War era and a […]
Chris Matthews: Obama’s Gettysburg Address
District of Corruption I can’t say that I disagree … Obama is a sectional president like Lincoln. He is pushing a radical anti-Southern social and […]
The Lincoln Catechism
New York, 1864 This is a great find: Lesson The First I. What is the Constitution? A compact with hell – now obsolete. II. By […]
The Miscegenation Ball
New York, 1864 H/T Ta-Nehisi Coates The text reads: “The Miscegenation Ball at the Headquarters of the Lincoln Central Campaign Club, Corner of Broadway and […]
Northern Honor vs. Southern Honor
United States, 1850 Great stuff … it sheds light on the 313Chris vs. Stonelifter feud. Southern honor: Welcome back to our series on manly honor. […]
A Historic Election
American North We’ve been so obsessed with Obama’s reelection by White Yankees that we haven’t taken a look at the other big news out of […]
North Star Project: The Repeal of Northern Anti-Miscegenation Laws
American North OD has spent the last several months exhaustively researching the shared racial history of the South and the Caribbean. While that research project […]