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 […]
History
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 […]
Review: The South and America Since World War II
Dixie If you are a Southern conservative who wants to learn more about the origins of the Sunbelt South, don’t waste your time on James […]
Robert E. Lee Day 2013: Remembering Robert E. Lee
Virginia The title of this talk by Professor Gary Gallagher is “Robert E. Lee Confronts Defeat: Duty in the Wake of Appomattox.”
Second Amendment Was Passed To Protect Slavery
District of Corruption Do you remember our old friend Thom Hartmann? Note: Progressives are salivating over the possibility of repealing the Bill of Rights. They […]
The Lincoln Catechism
New York, 1864 This is a great find: Lesson The First I. What is the Constitution? A compact with hell – now obsolete. II. By […]
The Miscegenation Ball
New York, 1864 H/T Ta-Nehisi Coates The text reads: “The Miscegenation Ball at the Headquarters of the Lincoln Central Campaign Club, Corner of Broadway and […]
Amurrica Series: Barack “Lincoln” Obama
District of Corruption OD couldn’t let this pass without comment: “The Presidential Inaugural Committee made the announcement on Thursday that Obama will take the oath […]
Review: The Other Irish
Dixie Karen F. McCarthy’s The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America is a sweeping social history of the Scots-Irish that focuses on their contributions […]
Scots-Irish Project: Religion and the Frontier Experience
Dixie Here are some excerpts from The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America which sheds light on how Scots-Irish Presbyterians evolved into Baptists and […]
Scots-Irish Project: The Roots of America’s Gun Culture
Dixie As House and Senate Democrats move forward with gun control legislation today in the 113th Congress, it is worth reflecting on why the Scots-Irish who […]
Rainbow Confederacy Resources: Robert E. Lee on Negroes
Virginia I found these two gems of Confederate wisdom on the League of the South Facebook page: “Wherever you find the negro, everything is going down […]
Scots-Irish Project: John C. Calhoun’s Family Background
South Carolina Here’s an excerpt from Karen McCarthy’s The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America: “Like Rankin, John Caldwell Calhoun was descended from […]
Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Dixie The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry is Volume 11 of a 24 part series sponsored by the Center for the Study of […]
The History of Christmas
BRA H/T Walter Russell Mead Merry Christmas everyone! “In Anglo-American history, the Puritans gave up on trying to ‘put the Christ back in Christmas’ and […]
Joshua Giddings on the South
Ohio In light of John Bonaccorsi’s comments in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates thread, I will share another excerpt from America Aflame: How The Civil War Created […]
Review: Lincoln (2012)
District of Corruption Is there anything new to say about Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln? In my opinion, Lincoln is an excellent recruiting tool for Southern Nationalism. […]
Antebellum Christianity and Southern Racialism
Virginia Here’s an excerpt from David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation: “Slavery had made the black man in America, in […]
Thomas DiLorenzo on “Lincoln”
Alabama H/T Lew Rockwell I’ve been missing some great stuff …
The Monster of Monticello
New York In the New York Times, a wonderful new essay by Paul Finkelman on Thomas Jefferson which gives us some real insight into how […]
Chris Matthews on “Lincoln”
District of Corruption As I said on VNN Forum, if you want to see why the White Republic was a failure, you should go out […]
2008 Swing States Party ID
BRA, 2008 Here’s a little walk through Obama history: Iowa, Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, and Minnesota went for Obama because of Independent voters. McCain outperformed […]
Review: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
American South Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman’s 1974 book Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery is a mythbusting revisionist tour of […]
Slavery Myths: Southern Slavery and Human Development
American South This information comes from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery: Life Expectancy Did you know that the typical slave born […]
Slavery Myths: Life Expectancy
American South Here’s the average life expectancy at birth for American slaves in 1850 compared to the life expectancy of various “free” populations around the […]
Slavery Myths: Refuting Hinton Helper
American South Here’s an excellent excerpt from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery which eviscerates the economic argument for the abolition of […]
Slavery Myths: Slaves Spent Most of Their Time Picking Cotton
Antebellum South Slavery in the United States was nothing compared to the intensity of Cuban slavery where slaves commonly spent as much as 20 hours […]
The Modernization of Slavery
CSA, 1890 AD Andrew Hamilton has another excellent article on the Confederacy at Counter-Currents. While I mostly agree with his conclusions, I want to use […]