Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War
Dixie Just ordered a new book: David C. Keehn’s Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War. “Based on years of exhaustive […]
History
Amurrica Series: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Gettysburg Address
Pennsylvania For those who haven’t heard the news, today is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Note: In a more thoughtful article, historian […]
Why We Must Reject a ‘Proposition Nation’
Alabama Here is Dr. Michael Hill’s speech at the 2013 League of the South conference:
Review: Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
Dixie Clive Webb’s Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights complicates the traditional White Nationalist narrative of the Civil Rights Movement and the Jewish Question. […]
Southern Rabbis and Civil Rights
Arkansas Of the approximately 200 Southern rabbis, a total of 9 were active participants in the Civil Rights Movement. Of the 9 rabbis who were […]
Miniature Ethnostates
Alabama I’m sure this will spark an interesting discussion: you don’t have to go to South Africa to find White homelands. He was typically frank […]
Lincoln Defended
National Review Rich Lowry has written an entire book that glorifies Abraham Lincoln and has published a front page cover story in National Review about […]
MLK and Southern Jews
Alabama Damn, this just keeps getting better and better: “Shortly before 6 A.M. on December 20, 1956, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. boarded a bus […]
Jewish Confederates
CSA In the antebellum era, Jews were more likely than Gentiles to own slaves and were disproportionately involved in the slave trade. Jews went along […]
The Strange Career of Solomon Blatt
South Carolina Here’s an excerpt from Clive Webb’s Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights about Solomon Blatt, the Jewish Speaker of the […]
Caribbean Project: Were Georgia’s Poor Whites Exploited By Planters?
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 on the “exploitation” of poor Whites by the planter class: “Cultivating […]
Caribbean Project: Georgia: The Failed White Utopia
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860: “The trustees envisioned Georgia as a refuge for the common man. […]
Caribbean Project: Georgia & the Golden Circle
Georgia Palmetto Patriot’s copy of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World has arrived and he has begun to […]
Today In 1963
Alabama Like I have said over and over again, the existence of the Union is the primary problem that we have to deal with: “MAY […]
Bicausalism Type B (Part 2)
Alabama Did the Jews play a major role in the destruction of the Southern way of life? Absolutely. 1.) MLK was constantly flying to New […]
Bicausalism Type B
Alabama Here’s a brief explanation of why I lean toward “Bicausalism Type B”: The short answer is Southern history. Jews have always lived in the […]
Caribbean Project: On The Rim of the Caribbean
Georgia I can’t wait to get my new book: On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World. Note: Georgia was […]
Review: Dividing Lines (Birmingham)
Alabama Exactly 50 years ago, the Birmingham business community surrendered to integration as a result of pressure from the federal government and negative media publicity […]
Short History of the Golden Circle
South Carolina This is a topic that OD will be returning to at some point in the future:
50 Years Forward: The Good News Never Ends
Alabama I’m saving this comment here before it is deleted by the Al.com moderator: From 1960 to 2010, the population of Birmingham declined from 340,887 […]
The Dark Age Renaissance of Northern Europe
Western Europe How about something completely different?
50 Years Forward: Jews, Birmingham, and Civil Rights
Alabama Al.com has an article on Birmingham, the Jewish Question, and the Civil Rights Movement: “The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. relied heavily on Jewish […]
Why Segregation Collapsed In Montgomery
Alabama This comes from J. Mills Thornton III’s Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights In Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. “The ICC […]
Montgomery’s White Resistance To Integration
Alabama This excerpt on the demise of segregation in Montgomery is from J. Mills Thornton III’s Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil […]
Negroes In Negroland (1868)
North Carolina Here’s the link to Hinton Rowan Helper’s less famous book, Negroes in Negroland (1868), which he wrote in the midst of Reconstruction in North Carolina. […]
Robert Lewis Dabney on Northern Conservatism
Dixie H/T Michael Hill Faith and Heritage has a great post on Dabney’s take on Northern conservatism as it confronted the women’s suffrage movement in […]
Disingenuous Rainbow Confederates
Alabama Connie Chastain writes: “I have to wonder why he needs me as an excuse to rant and rave about black folks. And I again […]
Rainbow Confederates React To Memphis
Tennessee Connie Chastain has responded to my Memphis post: “For him, they’re black people. For me, they’re leftist leaders and culture changers — people who either […]
Memphis Renames Three Confederate Parks
Tennessee H/T SNN Here’s the latest outrage in the Southern heritage wars: “MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The City Council voted Monday to change the names of […]
Black History Month 2013: The Dead Heart of Africa
Chad Al-Jazerra investigates 50 years of independence in Chad: Note: Chad ranks 183 out of 187 countries on the U.N. Human Development Index. It also […]
Review: America Aflame
United States, 1834-1876 David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation is a sweeping antiwar take on the Civil War era and a […]
SNN Podcast: The Rise of the New South
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast with Palmetto Patriot about my review of James C. Cobb’s The South and America Since World […]