American History Series: Charles G. Finney, William Lloyd Garrison and Northern Perfectionism
Why is the Northeast so weird? An introduction to The Yankee Question in American culture and politics
Identity
Southern History Series: The Southern Race Creed
What did Southerners believe about race a century ago?
Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Geography
A book review of Richard Pillsbury’s The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Geography
American History Series: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
The American North has hardly always been a multiracial paradise
American History Series: Review: The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
A book review of William W. Freehling’s The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
American History Series: Review: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
A book review of Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Southern History Series: Slavery In Texas
Slavery had a bright future in Texas in 1861
American History Series: Review: Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
A book review of Gordon S. Wood’s Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
MAGA: American Patriotism Sinks To Near Record Low Under Blompf
As bad as things are today, the Lincoln administration still holds the record
Southern History Series: Review: The Day Dixie Died
A book review of Thomas and Debra Goodrich’s The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866
People’s Republic of Cville Ends Celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday
Charlottesville will celebrate the arrival of the Union Army in 1865 instead
Southern History Series: Review: A History of Missouri, Volume III: 1860-1875
A book review of William E. Parrish’s A History of Missouri, Volume III: 1860-1875
Southern History Series: Review: The Other Irish
A book review of Karen F. McCarthy’s The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America
Southern History Series: The Southernization of Missouri
Slavery, Civil War and the Politics of Identity in Missouri
Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Environment
A book review of Martin V. Melosi’s book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Environment
Dennis Prager: There Is No Such Thing As White Nationalism
Baby Boomer mainstream conservative explains American Nationalism
Southern History Series: Review: Colonial South Carolina: A History
A book review of Robert M. Weir’s Colonial South Carolina: A History
American Mind: Conservative Rationalism Has Failed
Yoram Hazony attempts to explain the failure of modern conservatism
Southern History Series: Maryland, My Maryland
The first blood spilled in the War Between the States was in Baltimore in 1861
Southern History Series: Slavery In Missouri
Changing demographics thwarted secession in Missouri
Southern History Series: The Okie Exodus
2.5 million people left the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and most went to California and Arizona
Music Break: Blue Eyes Dancing
Just some folk music from the Upper South
Southern History Series: Sooner Socialism
Oklahoma used to be a stronghold of populism and socialism
Rebel Yell: American Nations, The Deep South
Michael Cushman on the history and culture of the Lower South
Southern History Series: Illiberal Ethnostates In Northern Arkansas
Northern Arkansas has a long history of racial violence and illiberalism
Southern History Series: Karl Marx For Hillbillies
Gov. Jeff Davis was a populist who won the greatest landslide in Arkansas political history
Southern History Series: L.Q.C. Lamar II on Reconstruction Mississippi
Reconstruction Mississippi was the saddest and the blackest tyranny that ever cursed this earth
Southern History Series: Jefferson Davis’s Exile In Canada
Ex-Confederate President Jefferson Davis was welcomed in Canada as a fallen hero
Southern History Series: Gov. John Jones Pettus on Black Republicanism and Mississippi Secession
Mississippi had to secede from the Union to avoid becoming a blighted land cursed with free negro morals which would be a cesspool of vice, crime and infamy
Southern History Series: Slavery In Kentucky
Antebellum Kentuckians saw slavery as a curse that was being naturally drained away by the hand of Providence
Southern History Series: The Kentuckian Diaspora
Kentuckians spilled over their borders and colonized neighboring states
Southern History Series: Spirit of the South
The Eufaula Regency spearhearded the secession movement in Southeast Alabama