Confederate Flags Removed From Confederate Graves In Confederate Cemetery In Clayton, AL
I heard about this in the local newspaper on Friday, but after alerting Defending The Heritage and Southern Heritage News & Views, who I had […]
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Confederate Flags Removed From Union Springs Cemetery, Again
A week later, the deal that “Cooter” and the Alabama SCV struck with Union Springs has expired. Once again, the Confederate Battle Flags have been […]
Black Artist To Livestream Burning of Confederate Flags In 13 States On Memorial Day
It seems like every day now we have something new to report about a Confederate flag that has been desecrated or a Confederate monument that […]
Confederate Memorial Circle Celebration and Rededication In Selma, AL
Update: The Montgomery Advertiser and Selma Times Journal have stories up. Yesterday, we traveled to Selma to attend the Confederate Memorial Circle Celebration and Rededication […]
Confirmed: City of Union Springs Removes Confederate Flags From Confederate Graves In Confederate Cemetery
Just checked on the flags in the Confederate graveyard in Union Springs. They have all been removed. #HeritageLost
Deadline Passes: Confederate Flags Still In Union Springs Confederate Cemetery
As promised, I drove to Union Springs, AL this evening in the hope of catching Union Springs city employees on video in the act of […]
Mayor of Union Springs Issues Executive Order to Remove Confederate Flags From Confederate Graves In Confederate Cemetery
The Confederate Battle Flag controversy in Union Springs is escalating. Yesterday, I reported that some Southern patriot had restored 10 of the small Confederate Battle […]
Confederate Flags Restored In Union Springs
H/T Johnny Adams News They’re back. Note: I wish I could take credit for this, but someone else beat me to it. BTW, the Flagging […]
The Ancient Idiot
Here’s an excerpt from the next book that I will be reviewing, Larry Siedentop’s Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism: “Religious belief shaped […]
Review: The Marriage-Go-Round
Andrew Cherlin’s The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today is the third book I have consulted to learn more about the […]
Is Mass Incarceration “Racist”?
In 1994, Kweisi Mfume and the Congressional Black Caucus supported and overwhelmingly voted for the Violent Crime and Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. […]
Marriage and Revolution
Here’s a brief history lesson on divorce and revolution in the United States and France from Andrew Cherlin’s The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and […]
Review: A History of The Wife
Marilyn Yalom’s A History of The Wife is the second book that I bought to gain a better understanding of the history of marriage and gender […]
Republicanism, Americanism, and the Demise of Traditional Marriage
The following excerpt comes from Stephanie Coontz’s book, Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage: “During the eighteenth century the spread of the market economy […]
The Medieval Wife: Part One
Here are my notes on marriage in the Middle Ages from Marilyn Yalom’s book A History of the Wife: In the Middle Ages, the Catholic […]
Gay Marriage In The Roman Empire
The following excerpt comes from Marilyn Yalom’s The History of The Wife: “Nero, the flamboyant Roman emperor who ruled from 54 to 68 C.E., went […]
A History of The Wife
This was written by a feminist, but it sounds like an interesting book: “How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a […]
Women In Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
Editor’s Note: Consider this a companion guide to the latest podcast over at the Stormer. I’ve chosen the Early Modern Era to illustrate what life […]
Free Love To LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM: Sliding Down The Slippery Slope
In the United States, the idea that anyone should be able to fornicate with whoever they want, whenever they want, without interference from the state […]
League of the South To Celebrate Lincoln’s Assassination In Maryland
“That means nigger citizenship. Now, by God, I’ll put him through. That is the last speech he will ever make.” – John Wilkes Booth “After […]
Black History Month 2015: The Prophecy of Nongqawuse
Now that we are officially in Black History Month 2015, here’s a timely excerpt from Martin Meredith’s new book, The Fortunes of Africa: “After eight […]
Oregon: The Failed White Republic
Interesting read: “When Oregon was granted statehood in 1859, it was the only state in the Union admitted with a constitution that forbade black people […]
The Jew Bill of 1753
Here’s another thought provoking excerpt from Robert Middlekauff’s The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. This excerpt is about the failure of a Jewish naturalization bill […]
Origins of Americanism: The Radical Whig Tradition
Here’s an important excerpt from Robert Middlekauff’s The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789: “In this environment conventional wisdom came to hold that plots and […]
League of the South Participates In Lee-Jackson Day In Lexington, VA
H/T SNN Here’s a write up of the League of the South’s participation in the recent Lee-Jackson Day festivities in Lexington: “League of the South […]
Republicanism and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Since we are celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday in the United States, today would be an appropriate occasion to remind everyone […]
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Other Side of The Story
There’s nothing about the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. that I or anyone else in the blogosphere will be sharing this afternoon that can top […]
Review: Congo: The Epic History of a People
David van Reybrouck’s Congo: The Epic History of a People is a longwinded narrative that attempts to avoid the pitfalls of “Eurocentrism” in conventional historical accounts […]
Congolese Economics
Editor’s Note: This excerpt comes from David von Reybrouck’s Congo: The Epic History of a People. Nothing that follows in Reybrouck’s account comes as any […]
The Simba Rebellion
We’re now several years into independence in the Democratic Republic of Congo: “Mama Lungeni saw the rebels come to town. In early August of 1964 […]
Congo’s Independence
I’m getting to the good part now in this massive book on the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo … first, this is the […]
Congo’s Mineral Wealth
Here’s an important excerpt from David Van Reybrouck’s new book, Congo: The Epic History of a People: “Beneath its surface, Congo turned out to conceal […]