
Southern History Series: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech
The Confederacy was built on the cornerstone of the acceptance of natural inequality
The Confederacy was built on the cornerstone of the acceptance of natural inequality
Alabama seceded from the Union to avoid being degraded to a position of equality with free negroes
William Lowndes Yancey, “the Prince of the Fire Eaters,” was Alabama’s great fire eater and played a pivotal role in the dissolution of the Union in 1861
Michael Brendan Dougherty points out that many of the Founding Fathers were classical republicans
What did we win in the Second World War?
It turns out that grandma’s family didn’t die in Auschwitz after all
Once upon a time, American Nationalism collapsed in the South
History shows that evangelical Christianity is what the present generation makes of it
Robert E. Lee was a humane race realist
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker was an architect of Confederate nationalism and wrote the SIEGE of his generation
Robert E. Lee thought Virginia would be better off if all the blacks left and moved to the Deep South
A book review of Jean B. Russo and J. Elliot Russo’s Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America
Conservatives have forgotten how to wage the culture war
What are the ethnic origins of White South Carolinians?
In South Carolina, the Stono Rebellion was the largest slave uprising in colonial America
In Colonial South Carolina, White racial attitudes were shaped by a brutal race war with the Indians
Rep. John Rankin of Mississippi has been called “the most notorious” anti-Semite who ever sat in Congress
Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi predicted that the “floodgates of hell” would be opened up by integration and that interracial rape would explode in the South
At the dawn of the 20th century, agrarian populists triumphed over conservative elites in many of the Southern states
Regime change wars from Mississippi to Syria
Why did Mississippi secede from the Union?
FBI memos claim “civil rights icon” watched and laughed as a woman was raped and had over 40 affairs
The Battle of Oxford in 1962 could have easily taken an explosive course which would have altered history
Mississippi seceded from the Union to protect a government based on equality of rights secured to White men in equal sovereign states
A review of a documentary on Mississippi’s course to secession and experience during the War Between the States
A book review of Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
The Mexican states of Nuevo León and Coahuila offered to secede from Mexico to join the Confederacy
The 1622 massacre of English settlers in Jamestown in a surprise attack was America’s first race war and decisively shaped Southern attitudes toward American Indians
They were diametric opposites
The evolution of White identity in the Chesapeake
Early Virginians were inspired by the Spanish model of conquest
A book review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
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