Black History Month 2014: The White Man’s Burden
Third World I stumbled across this book in the course of trying to find out the total amount of money that the West has spent […]
History
Black History Month 2014: The History of US Foreign Aid to Haiti
Haiti The Daily Beast has a new article by a 31-year-old journalist who has figured out what is wrong with Haiti. In “The Aid Industry […]
Black History Month 2014: Can The Negro Rule Himself?
Haiti Insofar as White Nationalists know anything about the history of Haiti, Dr. William Pierce’s classic ADV broadcast “The Lesson of Haiti” is usually the […]
Black History Month 2014: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Faustin I Soulouque
Haiti Of all the Haitian presidents of the nineteenth century, Emperor Faustin I Soulouque attracted the most foreign criticism, and is still considered by some […]
Caribbean Project: Labadee, Hispanolia
Haiti Reading over Steve Sailer’s column “Why Haiti Is So Hopeless,” I am struck by how little attention is paid to the relative absence of tourism […]
Black History Month 2014: The Real Power Behind Baby Doc
Haiti In 1986, CBS aired a piece by Ed Bradley on the fall of Haiti’s “President-for-Life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier. “Baby Doc,” who ruled Haiti from 1971 […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars
Haiti Victor Bulmer-Thomas’ The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars is a massive 710 page analysis of the economic development of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Explaining The Caribbean
Caribbean I’m finally wrapping up my research. At the outset of the “Caribbean Project,” I wanted to investigate 1.) how the culture of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: The Collapse of Caribbean Agriculture
Caribbean In spite of all that has been written here about the Golden Circle, the sugar plantation in the Caribbean has gone the way of […]
Caribbean Project: Treasure Islands
Caribbean Here’s an interview with Nicholas Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens: Note: This explains what we […]
Caribbean Project: Economic Impact of the US Occupation In Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti During the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I was struck by the fact that even university professors and high school teachers who teach history to American […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks of History in the aftermath of the […]
Caribbean Project: The Duvalierist Revolution
Haiti For several years now, I have used this blog to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies: in the dead of winter, usually during […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti: The Usual Explanations
Haiti Editor’s Note: I’m compiling a list of the usual explanations for Haiti’s failure along with an explanation why each doesn’t make sense. The blows […]
Caribbean Project: Spenser St. John on Haitians
Haiti Here’s an excerpt from Spenser St. John’s “Hayti, or the Black Republic”: “The vexed question as to the position held by the negroes in […]
Haiti Debate
Caribbean Sea Over at Crossroads, I am explaining in the comment section why Haiti evolved into Haiti, and why Haiti is so much worse off today […]
Florida’s Development In The 1920s
Florida Here’s an excerpt from Michael Gannon’s The History of Florida on the settlement of South and Central Florida during the land boom the 1920s: […]
Florida’s Peninsula In The ‘New South’
Florida During the Antebellum era and War Between the States, North Florida was fully integrated into the Deep South. Florida’s population was concentrated in “Middle […]
The Southernization of ‘La Florida’
Florida Why do we consider Florida a Southern state? What exactly is ‘Southern’ about Florida? If White Southerners are being demographically displaced in Florida, when did […]
Florida’s Demographic Transformation, 1960-2010
Florida In 1960, there were only 4,951,560 people in Florida. 4,063,861 people in Florida, or 82 percent of the state’s population, were White. The remaining […]
Rep. Tyrone Brooks Indicted on Mail, Wire, and Tax Fraud Charges
Georgia Here’s a new wrinkle in the removal of the Tom Watson statue: Note: Brooks was indicted in May, but we were unaware of this […]
Tom Watson’s Racist Views, 100 Years Later
Georgia Warren Throckmorton, a longtime antagonist of the League of the South, is upset this morning by Tom Watson’s “racist views”: “In life — especially later […]
Abolition and Racial Equality
New England Here’s an excerpt below from Paul Goodman’s Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. I’m really enjoying this book. There […]
Who Is Professor Steven Lance Stoll?
Florida Merry Christmas! – Google Search Results SNN has a new article on Professor Steven Lance Stoll, a Jewish homosexual from Akron, OH, who is […]
Of One Blood: Abolition and the Origins of Racial Equality
New England My copy arrived this afternoon:
Erasing our “Racist” Past
Virginia Jared Taylor on the removal of the Tom Watson statue in Georgia:
Polling Data on Northern Racial Attitudes
American North Here’s another excerpt from Sweet Land of Liberty on the shift in White Northern racial attitudes after World War II: “The struggle over equality […]
The Economist on Tom Watson Statue Removal
Georgia The Economist has has a new article on the League of the South and the removal of the Tom Watson statue. Note: In hindsight, […]
Jews and Northern Integration
American North As I said in the OD comments, there’s no shortage of discussion of the Jewish Question in Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: […]
Northern Racial Attitudes and Integration
American North Here’s an excerpt from Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North about the shift in […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Alabama Happy Thanksgiving! I know that I have a lot to be thankful for this year. My wife is making our first Thanksgiving dish. What […]
Selma City Council Agrees To Settlement
Alabama Here’s some good news for a change: the Selma City Council has approved a settlement in a lawsuit over the theft of the bust […]