Southern History Series: Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish
Documentary: Jim Webb’s Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish
History
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
Southern History Month 2019: Review: Michael Lind’s Land of Promise
A book review of Michael Lind’s Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
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: 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: 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
Travelogue: Journey To Excelsior Springs
How our trip to see the home of Jesse James was cut short
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
Easter 2019
We are living in the moral ruins of a great civilization
Hitler’s Birthday
Adolf Hitler is 130 years old today!
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
Southern History Month 2019: Top 15 Species Lolbertarians Hate
A stroll through history and the ecological devastation caused by free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Georgia’s Providence Canyon
Southwest Georgia has its own miniature version of the Grand Canyon
Judeo-Christianity Is a Boomer Religion
Christian Zionism is a weird American cult
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
Christians Haven’t Always Been Mewling “Judeo-Christian” Pacifists
The Holy War of the Crusades raged as Notre Dame was built in France
Southern History Month 2019: Mechanization
Technology and investment abolished sharecropping in the South
The Great Plantation: A Better Paradigm
We need a better vision and paradigm of how to fix the South
Kevin Williamson: The Division of Labor Is the Meaning of Life
Now he is getting somewhere
Southern History Month 2019: NASA
Do you remember the time we went to the moon?