Southern History Series: Slavery In Texas
Slavery had a bright future in Texas in 1861
Slavery
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
Southern History Series: The Southern Founders
Who were the Founding Fathers? What did they believe?
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
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: The Southernization of Missouri
Slavery, Civil War and the Politics of Identity in Missouri
Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry (Agriculture)
A book review of Melissa Walker and James C. Cobb’s The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Glenn Beck’s Slavery Exposition
Glenn Beck wants to teach you about slavery
Southern History Series: Review: Colonial South Carolina: A History
A book review of Robert M. Weir’s Colonial South Carolina: A History
Southern History Series: The Dred Scott Decision
In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney methodically used history and law to explain why blacks are not American citizens and how the Constitution was written only for the European posterity of the Founders
Southern History Series: Forging The Ethnostate
West Virginia originally banned all blacks in its state constitution
Southern History Series: Slavery In Missouri
Changing demographics thwarted secession in Missouri
Rebel Yell: American Nations, The Deep South
Michael Cushman on the history and culture of the Lower South
The Douthat vs. Serwer Debate
Ross Douthat and Adam Serwer debate the merits of Northern liberal democracy
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: Sen. Henry Clay Condemns Abolitionism
Harry of the West condemned abolitionism out of concern for the liberty of his own race and posterity
Southern History Series: Spirit of the South
The Eufaula Regency spearhearded the secession movement in Southeast Alabama
Southern History Series: The Settlement of Southeast Alabama
A personal story of settler-colonialism on the Alabama frontier
Southern History Series: The Southernization of La Florida
The Florida Cracker settled in La Florida and made it a Southern state in the image of Florida Man
Southern History Series: Georgia: The Failed White Utopia
Georgia was originally intended to be a White ethnostate
Southern History Series: Sen. Robert Toombs Farewell Speech
Robert Toombs argues the questions of slavery and racial equality were up to the people of Georgia to decide
Southern History Series: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens on the Causes of The War Between the States
Why did the Southern states secede from the Union? What was the cause of the War Between the States?
Southern History Series: John H. Reagan on Texas Secession
The irrepressible conflict caused by abolitionism finally bore the fruit of disunion in Texas
Southern History Series: Texas Declaration of Secession
Texas seceded from the Union to remain a White Republic
Southern History Series: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech
The Confederacy was built on the cornerstone of the acceptance of natural inequality
Southern History Series: Alabama Secession Commissioner Stephen F. Hale’s Letter to Kentucky
Alabama seceded from the Union to avoid being degraded to a position of equality with free negroes
Southern History Series: William Lowndes Yancey on The Temple of Our Liberty
William Lowndes Yancey, “the Prince of the Fire Eaters,” was Alabama’s great fire eater and played a pivotal role in the dissolution of the Union in 1861
Southern History Series: Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and The Partisan Leader
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker was an architect of Confederate nationalism and wrote the SIEGE of his generation
Southern History Series: Review: Planting an Empire
A book review of Jean B. Russo and J. Elliot Russo’s Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America
Southern History Series: The Stono Rebellion
In South Carolina, the Stono Rebellion was the largest slave uprising in colonial America
Southern History Series: The Yamasee War
In Colonial South Carolina, White racial attitudes were shaped by a brutal race war with the Indians