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
Culture
American History Series: Who Is Uncle Sam?
Uncle Sam and the rise of racial equality in the American North
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
Southern History Series: Slavery In Texas
Slavery had a bright future in Texas in 1861
Southern History Series: The Southern Founders
Who were the Founding Fathers? What did they believe?
Southern History Series: Review: The Day Dixie Died
A book review of Thomas and Debra Goodrich’s The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866
Southern History Series: Review: A History of Missouri, Volume III: 1860-1875
A book review of William E. Parrish’s A History of Missouri, Volume III: 1860-1875
Southern History Series: Review: The Other Irish
A book review of Karen F. McCarthy’s The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America
Southern History Series: The Southernization of Missouri
Slavery, Civil War and the Politics of Identity in Missouri
Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Environment
A book review of Martin V. Melosi’s book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Environment
Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry (Agriculture)
A book review of Melissa Walker and James C. Cobb’s The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Southern History Series: Review: Colonial South Carolina: A History
A book review of Robert M. Weir’s Colonial South Carolina: A History
Taylor Swift: You Need To Calm Down
Taylor Swift is the new Miley Cyrus
The Southern History Series
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Southern History Series: Maryland vs. Abraham Lincoln
According to Gen. George McClellan, Maryland was poised to secede in 1861 and join the Confederacy
Southern History Series: The Dred Scott Decision
In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney methodically used history and law to explain why blacks are not American citizens and how the Constitution was written only for the European posterity of the Founders
Southern History Series: Maryland, My Maryland
The first blood spilled in the War Between the States was in Baltimore in 1861
Southern History Series: The Red Neck War
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 was quelled by the U.S. Army
Southern History Series: The Secret History of West Virginia
West Virginia was occupied by the Union Army and illegally torn from Virginia by a cabal in Wheeling
Southern History Series: Forging The Ethnostate
West Virginia originally banned all blacks in its state constitution
The Forward: Racial Justice and LGBTQ Equality Are The Same Fight. It’s A Jewish Fight.
Conservatives are unable to admit what Jews say openly
Southern History Series: The Kansas-Missouri Border War
Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr.’s General Order No.11 ethnically cleansed four counties in western Missouri
Southern History Series: Slavery In Missouri
Changing demographics thwarted secession in Missouri
Southern History Series: The Okie Exodus
2.5 million people left the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and most went to California and Arizona
Music Break: Blue Eyes Dancing
Just some folk music from the Upper South
Southern History Series: Sooner Socialism
Oklahoma used to be a stronghold of populism and socialism
Rebel Yell: American Nations, The Deep South
Michael Cushman on the history and culture of the Lower South
Southern History Series: The State of Sequoyah
The State of Sequoyah attempted to join the Union as an ethnostate for Native Americans. It was rejected.
Southern History Series: The Integration of Central High School
Segregation was an international embarrassment for the American Empire during the Cold War
Southern History Series: Illiberal Ethnostates In Northern Arkansas
Northern Arkansas has a long history of racial violence and illiberalism