Southern History Series: The Texas Revolution and Anglo-Saxonism
Sam Houston fought the Texas Revolution with the Texian standard of the single star, borne by the Anglo-Saxon race to extend their dominion across North America
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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: Nathaniel Macon on Jeffersonian Democracy
Mr. Jefferson’s democracy is of the White family
Southern History Series: Hinton Rowan Helper’s Negroes In Negroland (1868)
In the aftermath of the War Between the States, Hinton Rowan Helper dreamed of building a transcontinental railroad to deport all blacks from the United States
Southern History Series: Sen. Zebulon Vance on the Federal Elections Bill of 1890
In opposing the Federal Elections Bill of 1890, Sen. Zebulon Vance bitterly recounts the experience of Reconstruction in North Carolina
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: The History of July the 4th
Once upon a time, American Nationalism collapsed in the South
Southern History Series: Antebellum Christianity and Southern Racialism
History shows that evangelical Christianity is what the present generation makes of it
Southern History Series: Robert E. Lee on Racial Differences
Robert E. Lee was a humane race realist
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: Robert E. Lee on White Separatism
Robert E. Lee thought Virginia would be better off if all the blacks left and moved to the Deep South
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: White Settlement In Colonial South Carolina
What are the ethnic origins of White South Carolinians?
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
Southern History Series: Rep. John Rankin Calls Out The International Communist Conspiracy Behind World War II
Rep. John Rankin of Mississippi has been called “the most notorious” anti-Semite who ever sat in Congress
Southern History Series: Bilbo’s Prophecy
Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi predicted that the “floodgates of hell” would be opened up by integration and that interracial rape would explode in the South
Southern History Series: A Governor Bitterly Opposes Negro Education
At the dawn of the 20th century, agrarian populists triumphed over conservative elites in many of the Southern states
Southern History Series: How Mississippi Joined The Union
Regime change wars from Mississippi to Syria
Southern History Series: Mississippi’s Secession Declaration
Why did Mississippi secede from the Union?
Southern History Series: The Day Mississippi Almost Revolted The Second Time
The Battle of Oxford in 1962 could have easily taken an explosive course which would have altered history
Southern History Series: Mississippi Secession Commissioner William L. Harris Addresses the Georgia Secession Convention
Mississippi seceded from the Union to protect a government based on equality of rights secured to White men in equal sovereign states
Southern History Series: Review: Mississippi’s War: Slavery and Secession
A review of a documentary on Mississippi’s course to secession and experience during the War Between the States
Southern History Series: Review: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
A book review of Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Southern History Series: Knights of the Golden Circle, Order of the Lone Star and Northern Mexico
The Mexican states of Nuevo León and Coahuila offered to secede from Mexico to join the Confederacy
Southern History Series: Race War! The Origins of White Nationalism
The 1622 massacre of English settlers in Jamestown in a surprise attack was America’s first race war and decisively shaped Southern attitudes toward American Indians
Southern History Series: The Origins of New England and Virginia
They were diametric opposites
Southern History Series: The Emergence of White Identity In The Chesapeake
The evolution of White identity in the Chesapeake
Southern History Series: The Virginia Model
Early Virginians were inspired by the Spanish model of conquest