Southern History Series: Review: Hillbilly – The Real Story
A review of The History Channel documentary Hillbilly: The Real Story
Dixie
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: 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
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