Black History Month 2014: The Real Power Behind Baby Doc
Haiti In 1986, CBS aired a piece by Ed Bradley on the fall of Haiti’s “President-for-Life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier. “Baby Doc,” who ruled Haiti from 1971 […]
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Caribbean Project: Benign Imperialism, US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars
Haiti Victor Bulmer-Thomas’ The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars is a massive 710 page analysis of the economic development of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Economic Impact of the US Occupation In Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti During the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I was struck by the fact that even university professors and high school teachers who teach history to American […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Trade and Caribbean World Market Shares
Haiti In the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I came across the myth that Western countries essentially ganged up on Haiti and strangled its economy out of […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks of History in the aftermath of the […]
Caribbean Project: The Duvalierist Revolution
Haiti For several years now, I have used this blog to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies: in the dead of winter, usually during […]
Caribbean Project: Victor Schoelcher on Haiti
Haiti Victor Schoelcher, the most famous French abolitionist of the 19th century, whose life work culminated in the final abolition of slavery in the French […]
Caribbean Project: The Demise of Haiti’s Sugar Industry
Haiti In 1789, there were 288 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Northern Province, 314 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Western Province, and 191 sugar plantations in Haiti’s […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti: The Usual Explanations
Haiti Editor’s Note: I’m compiling a list of the usual explanations for Haiti’s failure along with an explanation why each doesn’t make sense. The blows […]
The Southernization of ‘La Florida’
Florida Why do we consider Florida a Southern state? What exactly is ‘Southern’ about Florida? If White Southerners are being demographically displaced in Florida, when did […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Big Truck That Went By
Haiti Jonathan M. Katz’s The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster is a memoir […]
70 Year Old Grandfather Beaten In Florida
Florida Like the periodic bus beatings, this incident is just another example of black-on-everyone crime in Florida:
Rep. Tyrone Brooks Indicted on Mail, Wire, and Tax Fraud Charges
Georgia Here’s a new wrinkle in the removal of the Tom Watson statue: Note: Brooks was indicted in May, but we were unaware of this […]
Tom Watson’s Racist Views, 100 Years Later
Georgia Warren Throckmorton, a longtime antagonist of the League of the South, is upset this morning by Tom Watson’s “racist views”: “In life — especially later […]
Abolition and Racial Equality
New England Here’s an excerpt below from Paul Goodman’s Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. I’m really enjoying this book. There […]
Who Is Professor Steven Lance Stoll?
Florida Merry Christmas! – Google Search Results SNN has a new article on Professor Steven Lance Stoll, a Jewish homosexual from Akron, OH, who is […]
Of One Blood: Abolition and the Origins of Racial Equality
New England My copy arrived this afternoon:
Polling Data on Northern Racial Attitudes
American North Here’s another excerpt from Sweet Land of Liberty on the shift in White Northern racial attitudes after World War II: “The struggle over equality […]
National Review on Nelson Mandela
New York The final word on “mainstream” conservatism: Note: The GOP recently praised Rosa Parks for her role in ‘ending racism.’ “Among world leaders, Nelson […]
Nelson Mandela Dies
South Africa Now that the terrorist Nelson Mandela is dead, it should be interesting to see what happens next in South Africa: Note: If we […]
The Economist on Tom Watson Statue Removal
Georgia The Economist has has a new article on the League of the South and the removal of the Tom Watson statue. Note: In hindsight, […]
Jews and Northern Integration
American North As I said in the OD comments, there’s no shortage of discussion of the Jewish Question in Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: […]
Northern Racial Attitudes and Integration
American North Here’s an excerpt from Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North about the shift in […]
Selma City Council Agrees To Settlement
Alabama Here’s some good news for a change: the Selma City Council has approved a settlement in a lawsuit over the theft of the bust […]
The Knockout Game: Why Now?
New York OD, SBPDL, CofCC, Thug Report, Amren, Stormfront and other pro-White websites have been drawing attention to the “Knockout King” game for almost two […]
Northern Fair Employment Practice Laws
American North Until I read this, I had been disappointed that Thomas J. Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty was ignoring the passage of civil rights […]
Quakers and Civil Rights
American North Skipping ahead in Sweet Land of Liberty, I see the Jews and their allies are covered at some length: “A small, dissenting denomination, […]
Tom Watson Statue To Be Removed From Georgia State Capitol
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia recently signed an executive order authorizing the removal of the Tom Watson statue from the grounds of the Georgia […]
Next Door Neighbors: Somalis
Tennessee As we saw in the previous video, Somali refugees who are legal permanent residents can take advantage of family reunification provisions of US immigration […]
Rivers of Blood: The Maine Connection
Maine While the League of the South is focused on Southern Demographic Displacement in Middle Tennessee, it is important to keep in mind that this […]
Blacks, Rainbow Confederates, and the “Heritage”
Dixie Connie Chastain writes: “Interesting thing… there are lots of claims that the flag offends people, especially African Americans, but I have never seen those […]