Caribbean Project: The Haitian Earthquake of 1842
Haiti The following excerpts come from Sir Spenser St. John’s 1886 memoirs, Hayti, or the Black Republic. Sir Spenser St. John, the British chargé d’affaires […]
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Confederate History Month 2012: Robert Barnwell Rhett on Democracy
South Carolina Continuing with this series … “Here is a subject in which passion, and feeling, and religion are all involved,” he added perceptively. “All […]
Happy John Wilkes Booth Day!
Alabama I propose a toast: to the memory of the great John Wilkes Booth, slayer of tyrants, martyr for liberty, avenger of the South! May […]
Civil War Flocabulary
Alabama H/T Kevin Levin Apparently, “Flocabulary” is now being used to teach African-Americans about the “Civil War” in BRA’s public schools: Note: This video glorifies […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Editors Make War
Dixie The following excerpts come from Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis. This is a taste of Confederate nationalism taken from the […]
Photos: White Man’s Revolution of 1876
South Carolina H/T Palmetto Patriot Back in November, we discussed the White Man’s Revolution of 1876 in South Carolina in several posts on this website. […]
Confederate History Month 2012: John H. Reagan on Secession
Texas Here is an excerpt from a speech by Rep. John H. Reagan who later served as Postmaster General and Treasury Secretary of the Confederacy: […]
Confederate History Month 2012: James DeBow on White Non-Slaveholders
Louisiana James D.B. Debow, the publisher of DeBow’s Review (a leading secessionist organ based in New Orleans), explains why White non-slaveholders had an interest in […]
New Jersey: The Color of Crime
New Jersey I’ve been sitting on New Jersey: The Color of Crime for several months now. In light of Paul Kersey’s investigation, now seems the […]
Creating a Confederate Kentucky
Kentucky This looks interesting … might review this book next month. Kentucky seceded from the Union after the War Between the States. “Marshall traces the […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Robert Barnwell Rhett on Free Negroes and Resistance
South Carolina I could easily retire from blogging for two or three years and amuse myself exclusively with researching the life of Robert Barnwell Rhett: […]
Confederate History Month 2012: The True Question: A Contest for the Supremacy of Race, as Between the Saxon Puritan of the North, and the Norman of the South (1861)
Virginia William Falconer’s The True Question: A Contest for the Supremacy of Race, as Between the Saxon Puritan of the North, and the Norman of […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Robert Barnwell Rhett on the “Age of Reason”
South Carolina Here’s another except from Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater on the Enlightenment: “And there was another threat. At Beaufort […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker on Race and Secession
Virginia Nathaniel Beverley Tucker of Virginia, the half brother of John Randolph, is one of the most obscure, but ultimately one of the most important […]
Confederate History Month 2012: A Southern Republic and a Northern Democracy (1863)
Virginia Frank A. Alfriend’s A Southern Republic and a Northern Democracy appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond in May 1863: “It is no […]
Confederate History Month 2012: The Southern Cross (1861)
Virginia St. George Tucker’s The Southern Cross appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in March 1861: Oh, say can you see, through the gloom and […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Characteristics and Capabilities of the Negro Race (1861)
Virginia This is an excerpt from William Holcombe’s Characteristics and Capabilities of the Negro Race which appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond in […]
Vox Day’s John Derbyshire Interview
Dixie John Derbyshire writes: “I’m sorry to sound defensive on National Review’s behalf, but it is something they have to do, to some degree. I […]
Confederate History Month 2012: The Races of Men (1860)
Virginia This is an excerpt from Henry Washington’s The Races of Men which appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond in April 1860: “I […]
Robert Barnwell Rhett vs. The Submissionists
South Carolina Here’s a link to the SNN podcast that I did this afternoon about Robert Barnwell Rhett, who is often described as the “Father […]
The Perverse “Conservatism” of National Review
National Review Maggie Gallagher’s contribution to Derb’s firing is the most perverse example yet of the type of “conservatism” that you will find on display […]
Confederate History Month 2012: The Alternative, A Separate Nationality, or the Africanization of the South (1861)
Virginia This is an excerpt from WM H. Holcombe’s “The Alternative, A Separate Nationality, or the Africanization of the South” that appeared in the Southern […]
Confederate History Month 2012: The Road to Fort Sumter
American South Guess we will watch a video today: Here’s an excerpt from South Carolina commissioner John McQueen speaking before the Texas Convention: South Carolina […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Robert Barnwell Rhett on Nationalism
South Carolina I’m pleased to announce that my copy of William C. Davis’s Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire Eater arrived in […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Robert Barnwell Rhett on American Patriotism
South Carolina H/T SNN Pretty sums up my own view of the United States: “The star-spangled banner no longer waves in triumph and glory for […]
Confederate History Month 2012: William Lowndes Yancey on The Temple of Our Liberty
Tennessee This excerpt from William Lowndes Yancey’s Memphis speech seems a fitting way to celebrate Confederate History Month 2012 on Easter Sunday: “If the temple […]
The Derb Gets “Uppity,” Forgets His Place, Gets Fired
Virginia Jared Taylor writes: “But what does it say about our country that even “conservatives”—and only “conservatives”—suffer from such hair-trigger nervousness about race?” I will […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Mississippi’s Declaration of Causes of Secession
Mississippi Mississippi’s official Declaration of Causes explains why Mississippi seceded from the United States: “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — […]
Confederate History Month 2012: John Wilkes Booth on Race
Maryland John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated the tyrant Abraham Lincoln for endorsing “nigger citizenship” in Louisiana, was a diehard Confederate nationalist from Maryland. “This country […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Stephen F. Hale’s Letter To Kentucky
Alabama Commissioner Stephen F. Hale of Alabama attempts to persuade his native state Kentucky to secede from the Union. “What Southern man, be he slave-holder […]
Confederate History Month 2012: William L. Harris Addresses the Georgia Secession Convention
Georgia William L. Harris of Mississippi addresses the Georgia secession convention and gives a fire-eating statement of Confederate nationalism. As Harris explains to the Georgia […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Alexander Stephens’ The Cornerstone Speech
Georgia Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech in Savannah is unquestionably the most famous speech associated with the Confederacy. Stephens was speaking extemporaneously and later complained that […]