Southern History Series: The Sacred Circle
In the 1840s and 1850s, Southern intellectuals began to chart a path forward out of classical liberalism derived from the organicist tradition of Romanic social theory
Culture
New England History Series: Liberty: Its True Meaning In New England
In New England, the Yankee has always combined a sense of liberty with the Calvinist heritage of social responsibility
Southern History Series: Thomas Jefferson’s Anglo-Saxon Identitarianism
Thomas Jefferson was hardly a modern deracinated liberal
American History Series: Review: American Insurgents, American Patriots
A book review of T.H. Breen’s American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
Southern History Series: Thomas Carlyle’s Influence on George Fitzhugh
According to Thomas Carlyle, liberalism naturally weakens and degenerates the social fabric by driving “assiduous wedges” in every joint of social existence
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh Attacks Liberalism
In the 1850s, Southern political theorist George Fitzhugh attacks the philosophical foundations of Northern liberalism and free-market capitalism
Southern History Series: Ulrich B. Phillips on The Central Theme of Southern History
The essence of Southern history is the common resolve of White folks that Dixie shall remain a White Man’s Country
Southern History Series: The True Question: A Contest for the Supremacy of Race, as Between the Saxon Puritan of the North, and the Norman of the South (1861)
The Confederate war aim was to replace a flailing Democratic Republic which suffered from the excesses of liberalism with a Patrician Republic based on “ethnological facts”
Southern History Series: Thomas Jefferson on Sectional Differences
In a 1785 letter to the Marquis de Chastellux, Thomas Jefferson characterized the differences between Northerners and Southerners
Southern History Series: Allen Tate on Social Justice
In Allen Tate’s poetry, order and civilization take precedence over the claims of equality and social justice
Southern History Series: The Rebel Yell
Confederate veterans let loose the real rebel yell
Southern History Series: Religion and the Scots-Irish Frontier Experience
White Southerners largely came to the New World from Great Britain as Anglicans and Presbyterians, but later became Baptists and Methodists. Why did this happen?
Southern History Series: German Romanticism’s Impact on the Antebellum South
The American South was heavily influenced by the organicist tradition of Romantic social theory
Review: Game of Thrones Finale (WARNING: Spoilers Ahead)
Who won the Iron Throne?
Southern History Series: Review: Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
A book review of Elizabeth R. Varon’s Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Southern History Series: Review: Shifting Grounds: Nationalism & the American South, 1848-1865
A book review of Paul Quigley’s Shifting Grounds: Nationalism & the American South, 1848-1865
Southern History Series: Review: Hubs of Empire
A book review of Matthew Mulcahy’s Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean
Southern History Series: Founding Greater Caribbean
The culture of the Deep South got its start as an extension of the older culture of the British West Indies
Southern History Series: The White Man’s Revolution of 1876
South Carolina was redeemed in 1876 when its people united behind Wade Hampton III, the greatest of all planters, and his Red Shirt Army which brought down Reconstruction
Tomi Lahren: Alabama’s New Abortion Ban Is Too Restrictive
Don’t Tread On My Vagina!
Southern History Series: John C. Calhoun’s Scots-Irish Ethnic Heritage
Sen. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina was the South’s most eloquent slaveowner. He was also Scots-Irish
Axios: The American Baby Bust
In the greatest economy in American history, children are increasingly unaffordable
Southern History Series: The Strange Career of Solomon Blatt
In South Carolina, Solomon Blatt led the fight to preserve white supremacy and segregation. He was also Jewish
Game of Thrones: The Mad Queen
No one should be surprised by last night’s shocking episode of Game of Thrones
Southern History Series: March of the Deathless Dead
Father Abram Joseph Ryan was the poet priest of the Confederacy
Southern History Series: The Virginians of the Valley
The Virginia Cavaliers used to be more than a sports team. It actually meant something
Happy Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is one of our best holidays
Rebel Yell: American Nations, Spanish Caribbean
The plantation complex spread throughout the Caribbean, South America and the American South
Transsexuals Are Being Classified As Mentally Ill In China
Transgender ideology is being crushed in China
Southern History Series: The Cotton Gin
How did the development of the cotton gin alter the economy and culture of the Deep South?
Jeff Giesea: How To Defend America?
In order to defend Americanism, you have to be rooted in an American tradition
Southern History Series: A Southern Republic and a Northern Democracy (1863)
The Confederacy sought to create a Patrician Republic more congenial to the culture of the Cavalier