Southern History Series: Founding Deep South
In 1670 and 1671, the founding fathers of the Deep South arrived from the Caribbean and dropped anchor off the coast of what is now Charleston
American South
Southern History Series: John Crowe Ransom On Progress
The Southern idea vs. the American idea
Southern History Series: Southern Civilization; or, The Norman in America
What is real and authentic Southern conservatism? It has nothing whatsoever in common with “mainstream conservatism”
Southern History Series: Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish
Documentary: Jim Webb’s Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish
Southern History Series: Cyrus Scofield and Dispensationalism
How was Judeo-Christian Zionism transplanted to Dixie during the poverty of the New South?
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama In The Twentieth Century (Economy)
A book review of Wayne Flynt’s Alabama In The Twentieth Century
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1920-1993)
From sharecropping to space in a generation
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1865-1920)
From Confederate Alabama to Colonial Alabama
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Until 1861)
Jeffersonianism retarded Alabama’s economic development
Southern History Month 2019: John Wilkes Booth Assassinates Abraham Lincoln
Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
Southern History Month 2019: Swallowing The Dog
In the aftermath of the War Between the States, ex-Confederate soldiers were forced to “swallow the dog”
Southern History Month 2019: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
A book review of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Victory In Charlottesville
A Virginia judge has ruled the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson monuments in Charlottesville are protected as war memorials by state law
Southern History Month 2019: Review: C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
A book review of C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
Southern History Month 2019: Liberty: Its True Meaning In The Backcountry
In the Backcountry, the meaning of liberty was symbolized by the rattlesnake. It meant leave me alone
Southern History Month 2019: Review: A History of Appalachia
A book review of Richard B. Drake’s A History of Appalachia
Southern History Month 2019: The Impoverishment 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
Southern History Month 2019: The Origins of the Azalea
It is springtime in Dixie which means it is time to wake up and smell the azaleas
Southern History Month 2019: Central Appalachia’s Extractive Economy
How Central Appalachia was ravaged, exploited and underdeveloped by free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Southern Manufacturing Job Losses Since WTO and NAFTA
The economic impact of free-trade on Southern manufacturing since the passage of NAFTA and the WTO
Southern History Month 2019: Firesale Prices: The Decimation of the Southern Public Domain
How the Southern forests were stripped bare and looted by Northern and European capitalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Southern History Month 2019: Little Dixie
The Missouri River Valley was settled by Southerners like Jesse James who was the first to “Secure the Bag”
Southern History Month 2019: The Railroad Trust of The New South
In the early 20th century, a privately owned railroad network under free-market capitalism kept the Southern economy in thrall to Northern Robber Barons
Southern History Month 2019: The Great Revolt of the Rednecks
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
Southern History Month 2019: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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
Southern History Month 2019: Southern Parks
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
Andrew Yang Appeals To Libertarians
We’ve given lolbertarians a hard time lately but there is something in this for them too
Southern History Month 2019: Top 15 Species Lolbertarians Hate
A stroll through history and the ecological devastation caused by free-market capitalism
Live Thread: Andrew Yang Arrives In The ATL
#YangGang rallies in Atlanta
Southern History Month 2019: Georgia’s Providence Canyon
Southwest Georgia has its own miniature version of the Grand Canyon
Southern History Month 2019: The Dust Bowl, Soil Erosion, Okies
The Green New Deal was actually a response to massive soil erosion
Southern History Month 2019: Sharecropping
Sharecropping in the South was abolished in a generation by technology and investment