Southern History Series: All Men Are Created Equal
Why was the South so nonchalant about the Declaration of Independence?
American South
Southern History Series: South Carolina Enters The American Revolution
The Founding Fathers of South Carolina were hardly civic nationalists
Southern History Series: The Humanist Origins of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Liberalism had nothing to do with the founding of Virginia
President Trump Speaks At 400th Anniversary In Jamestown
The Virginia House of Burgesses was established in 1619
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: Review: Hillbilly – The Real Story
A review of The History Channel documentary Hillbilly: The Real Story
Southern History Series: The Settlement of Trans-Appalachia
In the years before the American Revolution, pioneers crossed the mountains and began settling in Trans-Appalachia
Southern History Series: Race War! The Conquest of Comanchería
The Comanches were once the terror of the American West
Southern History Series: Podcast: Damn Yankees!
An interview with George Rable author of “Damn Yankees!: Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South”
Southern History Series: The End of Slavery In Barbour County, AL
A look at how slavery ended here at home
Southern History Series: The Carolina Chivalry
A look at the Carolina aristocracy on the eve of the American Revolution
Southern History Series: Southern Racial Attitudes On The Eve of the American Revolution
What did the Southern Founders think about race?
Southern History Series: Slavery In The Alabama Canebrake
What was slavery like in West Alabama?
Southern History Series: The Southern Middle Class On The Eve of the American Revolution
North Carolina was the middle class Southern colony
Southern History Series: The Tidewater Patrician
A look at the Tidewater aristocracy on the eve of the American Revolution
Southern History Series: Southerners On The Eve Of the American Revolution
The South as it was in 1763 as it entered the American Revolution
Southern History Series: Review: The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina
A book review of Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole’s The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina.
Southern History Series: Huey Long on Progressive Sellouts
We’ve been here before
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
Southern History Series: Southern Decolonization
In 1940, the second colonial era came to an end in the South on the verge of the Second World War
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
Southern History Series: Huey Long vs. Conservatism
Huey Long and the Populist uprising that conquered Louisiana
Southern History Series: Race Relations In The Jim Crow South
In the Jim Crow South, Whites and blacks had their own spaces
Southern History Series: Confederate Racial Ideology
What did the Confederates really believe about race? Let’s find out
American History Series: The Origins of New England and Virginia
A comparison of the historical development of the New England and Chesapeake colonies
Southern History Series: The Alternative, A Separate Nationality, or the Africanization of the South (1861)
In 1861, the South had to secede from Black Republicanism to prevent the Africanization of Dixie
Southern History Series: DeBow’s Review on African-Americans (1860)
What did the Confederates really believe about race?
Southern History Series: The Southern Race Creed
What did Southerners believe about race a century ago?
Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Geography
A book review of Richard Pillsbury’s The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Geography
Southern History Series: Review: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
A book review of David Brion Davis’ Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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