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 […]
History
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 […]
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. […]