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 […]
History
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 […]
Review: Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend watching the HBO documentary “Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later.” Fifty years after President Eisenhower used […]
Little Rock Central High School: 57 Years Later, A Blighted Ghetto
While we were in Little Rock last weekend, several members of our group went to check out Central High School, which was at the center […]
Poor Mark Patrick George
Here’s the latest wrinkle in the campaign against Confederate monuments in Georgia: “The Valdosta State University professor who recently called for ending all state Confederate […]
If The South Was Right, Then Why Are There Rainbow Confederates?
Dr. Michael Hill has addressed the Rainbow Confederates in a new essay on the League of the South website: “Could there be any victory more […]
The Impoverishment of Appalachia
Here’s a critical passage from John Alexander Williams’ Appalachia: A History which explains how Appalachia, regardless of whether its people fought for the Union or […]
Review: A History of Appalachia
Richard B. Drake’s A History of Appalachia is an excellent introduction to the history and culture of the people of the region. The book can […]
Update: SCV Demands Apology From Washington and Lee University
Editor’s Note: Washington and Lee University has backtracked and confirmed the bullying did take place. This incident allegedly happened to a 15-year-old boy at the […]
Whither Rainbowism: Has Unrequited Negrophilia Lost Its Allure In The SCV?
Kevin Levin writes: “This is about the fact that it was a group of African-American students who successfully petitioned their school to acknowledge their interpretation […]
Lexington Washington and Lee Demonstration
Yesterday, 13 members of the Virginia/Maryland League of the South joined a crowd of around 300 protesters from the Sons of the Confederate Veterans and […]
SCLC Agitates Against Confederate Monuments and Holidays
For those who don’t know their history, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “civil rights” organization. It grew out of […]
The History of “Racism”
Alabama According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term “racism” first appeared in English in the United States in 1936 in a fascist pamphlet by […]
Colonial Appalachia
Appalachia The first chapter of John Alexander Williams’ Appalachia: A History is an account of the settlement of Appalachia by the first White settlers, the […]
Confederate Appalachia
Virginia Here’s an excerpt from John Alexander Williams’ book, Appalachia: A History: “It was also a fact, however, that the mountain region had plenty of […]
Defining Appalachia
Appalachia Here’s the map of Appalachia which can be found in John Alexander Williams’ book, Appalachia: A History: Note: The orange counties are the Appalachian […]
Appalachia Project
Alabama We’ve already learned a lot here about the cultural origins of the Lower South in the “Golden Circle” plantation complex which was centered on […]
Kentucky Unionism
Kentucky I’m currently reading Kent Dollar, Larry Whiteaker, W. Calvin Dickinson’s book, Sister States, Enemy States: The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee. The book explores why Kentucky, […]
Rainbow Confederates: Kentucky Racial Attitudes
Kentucky Here’s an except from the chapter “Kentucky Unionism” in Kent T. Dollar, Larry H. Whiteaker and W. Calvin Dickinson’s book, Sister States, Enemy States: […]
Alexander Dugin: Letter to the American People on Ukraine
Russia Here’s something new to update the Ukraine discussion: Note: It’s a historical thicket that I don’t care to venture into. I agree with Dugin […]
Georgia House Approves MLK Statue
Georgia The final vote was 173-3. Note: As of the 2012 election, Republicans control the Georgia House, 119-60. They’ve used their control of the governorship and […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti’s Bad Press
Haiti Haiti’s Bad Press: Origins, Development, and Consequences by the anthropologist Robert Lawless can be summed up as another one of the “rose-tinted accounts of the […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti and the United States, 1714-1938
Haiti If Haiti’s apologists could ever be bothered to read this old book, they would be sorely disappointed with Ludwell Lee Montague’s Haiti and the […]
Caribbean Project: The Origin of AIDS
Haiti In the mid-1970s, Port-au-Prince in Haiti was a prime destination for American gay sex tourism, especially for male homosexuals in the New York City […]
Caribbean Project: James Franklin on Haiti (1828)
Haiti We’ve already seen Hesketh Prichard’s description of the Cul-de-Sac plain in 1899 in Where Black Rules White. Sir Spenser St. John (1884) and Hesketh Prichard […]