Who Were The Radical Republicans?
Yankeeland In his book Reconstruction, Eric Foner observes that the Radical Republicans were ethnic Yankees, descendants of New England settlers in the Deep North: “With […]
History
Andrew Johnson’s Third Annual Message
District of Corruption In his Third Annual Message to Congress on December 3, 1867, President Andrew Johnson denounced the creation of BRA by the Radical […]
Freedom Failed: The Barbados Exception
Barbados While reading Eric Foner’s book Reconstruction, I came across something that will interest old veterans of forum debates about the theory of racial equality. […]
Confessions of a Carpetbagger: The White Man’s Revolution of 1876
South Carolina Here is Gov. Daniel Chamberlain, the carpetbagger from Massachusetts, describing the overthrow of BRA in South Carolina by General Wade Hampton III in […]
How Does Union History Mesh With White History?
Yankeedom Kevin Levin has asked a rhetorical question: How Does Confederate History Mesh With Black History? That question is easy enough to answer. There were […]
Texas Declaration of Secession
Texas In the course of reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s readers, I came across a comment that reminded me of the reasons that compelled The Lone Star […]
BRA’s Nineteenth Century Origins
Alabama Thrasymachus is disputing my contention that Black Run Amerika was born in the nineteenth century and grew out of the abolitionist movement in the […]
Yankee Babylon
Alabama Here’s an interesting interview with MacDonald King Ashton, the author of Yankee Babylon, about the difference between “a guilt culture” and “a shame culture.” […]
Southern Heritage Quotes: John C. Calhoun on Liberty
South Carolina In his Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun explains why the preservation and perpetuation of our race is more important than liberty: “The […]
Northern Reconstruction
American North More than any other factor, it was the war against the Confederacy and the triumph of the Radical Republicans in the Union that […]
Emma West’s Tram Dystopia
Britain Is this what hell looks like? After watching the Emma West video, I found myself wondering: what would it be like to ride that […]
The End of American Heritage
Dixie Kevin Levin at Civil War Memory is miffed by the latest example of the wrong sort of people identifying with the Confederate flag. In […]
Review: The Day Dixie Died
Dixie Thomas and Debra Goodrich’s book The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866 is one of a small handful of books that dares to tell […]
Swallowing the Dog
Dixie This is another series of excerpts from The Day Dixie Died that our readers ought to really enjoy. What is the meant by the […]
Re: Keith Harris
Cosmic America Keith Harris has responded: For my readers, I would like to direct you to the comment section of of the OD post. Wow!! […]
Cosmic America.com
Cosmic America Last year, I remember Matt Parrott wrote an article about something called “Cosmic America.” It turns out there is a “Civil War blog” […]
Tuscaloosa Burning
Alabama I remember coming across this many years ago and want to post this here for future reference. The Union occupation of Tuscaloosa would be […]
Who Is Uncle Sam?
Dixie Here’s an amusing story that I would like to share with my friend Paul Kersey: who is this patriotic figure commonly known as Uncle […]
War Against The South: NAACP Agitation Continues
Dixie Steven Simpson at The American Thinker has written an article that laments the neverending crusade by the NAACP against symbols of Southern heritage like […]
The Pilgrims Caused the Civil War
New England Is Dick Morris reading Occidental Dissent?
The Second Republic
Massachusetts This is an insightful excerpt and another preview of Yankee Month into the origins of the Second Republic which was created by the Radical […]
Secessionists Triumphant
South Carolina Generation 5 has been inspired by William W. Freehling’s The Road To Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant (reviewed here last year) to pen an excellent […]
Battle of Atlanta
Georgia In our first video, we will see the Battle of Atlanta, and why the Confederate defeat was so meaningful to the future of civilization […]
Why Do You Hate America?
Dixie Michael Hill has taken a shot at answering a common question: why do you hate America? Admittedly, it is an interesting question. How can someone […]
Southern Heritage Quotes: Nathaniel Macon on Thomas Jefferson
North Carolina Nathaniel Macon on Thomas Jefferson: “What ought surely to be inferred from Mr. Jefferson’s notes and life, is, that he thinks slavery is […]
Non! The French On Reconstruction
France The French have been grossly misunderstood in America. Their stock has been rising as I have further researched the “anti-American” tradition in France. “Anti-Americanism” in […]
Review: Splendid Failure
“Of all the dangers which our nation has yet encountered, none are equal to those which must result from success of the current effort to […]
Lincoln’s Assassination
District of Corruption In the single most dramatic moment in American political history, John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater in Washington. Booth […]
The Rebel Yell
Dixie In this exclusive clip from the 1930s, Confederate veterans step up to the mic and let out their version of the rebel yell. Consider […]
The WASP Question – In The South
Dixie “I am an aristocrat. I love liberty. I hate equality.” – John Randolph of Roanoke Professor Andrew Fraser of Australia has written a two-part […]
“Carry Me Home”: The Collapse of Birmingham
Alabama “If the North keeps trying to cram this thing (desegregation) down our throats, there’s going to be bloodshed.” – Eugene “Bull” Connor The big […]
American Tradition
Michigan “It was only after I got to Detroit that I got to know Negroes and began to be able to evaluate them and I […]