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
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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: The State of Sequoyah
The State of Sequoyah attempted to join the Union as an ethnostate for Native Americans. It was rejected.
Southern History Series: The Integration of Central High School
Segregation was an international embarrassment for the American Empire during the Cold War
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: 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: Race War! The Fort Mims Massacre
In 1813, the Red Sticks faction of the Creek Indians launched a genocide against White settlers in Alabama
Southern History Series: President Andrew Johnson’s Third Annual Message
In his Third Annual Message to Congress, President Andrew Johnson denounced the Radical Republican plan for Congressional Reconstruction
Southern History Series: Review: Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War
The Reconstruction era was defined by violence
Southern History Series: Memphis Torchlight Processions
In February 1861, Unionists and Southern Nationalists held dueling torchlight parades through Memphis
Southern History Series: Florida’s Peninsula In The ‘New South’
In the Gilded Age, two Yankee railroad barons raced to develop the Florida Peninsula
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: The Republic of West Florida
In 1810, the United States invaded and annexed the short lived Republic of West Florida
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: The Gadsden Flag
Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina, the “Sam Adams of the South,” designed the Gadsden Flag
Southern History Series: The Demographics of Revolutionary South Carolina
Who are the people of South Carolina? Where did they come from?
Southern History Series: Country Ideology In Colonial South Carolina
South Carolinians derived their ideas about liberty which fueled the American Revolution from the “country ideology” of the mid-18th century British opposition
Southern History Series: An Ode To Another Time
A paean to militant Southern nostalgia
Southern History Series: James D.B. DeBow on The Non-Slaveholders of the South
James D.B. De Bow’s Top 10 reasons why the interests of Southern slaveholders and non-slaveholders are identical in the secession crisis
Southern History Series: The Battle of Liberty Place (1874)
In 1874, the White League fought a pitched battle against General James Longstreet in the streets of New Orleans
Southern History Series: The White League of Louisiana
The White League was formed in 1874 as a resistance organization to overthrow Reconstruction in Louisiana