Southern History Series: The Cotton Gin
How did the development of the cotton gin alter the economy and culture of the Deep South?
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Southern History Series: John C. Calhoun on Liberty
An excessive amount of liberty leads to anarchy which is the greatest of all curses and ultimately destroys freedom
Southern History Series: The Deep South, South Atlantic System and the Plantation Complex
The Deep South was an atypical and late flowering extension of the Greater Caribbean plantation complex
Southern History Series: Review: The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
A book review of Philip D. Curtin’s book The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Southern History Series: A Southern Republic and a Northern Democracy (1863)
The Confederacy sought to create a Patrician Republic more congenial to the culture of the Cavalier
Southern History Series: The Southern Cross (1861)
From the shores of the Gulf to the Delaware’s slope
Southern History Series: Robert Lewis Dabney On Northern Conservatism (1897)
“Conservatism” in the United States is Northern conservatism. Southern conservatism was a very different animal. Unfortunately, it has all but vanished
Southern History Series: French Regrets
In the aftermath of the War Between the States, the French came to regret their decision not to intervene and save Western civilization from the excesses of liberalism
Southern History Series: A 1950s View of the Southern Plantation System
A less hysterical age looks back more objectively at the plantation system of the Old South
Southern History Series: Review: Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater
A book review of William C. Davis’s book Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater
Southern History Series: Jefferson Davis’s Farewell Speech To the U.S. Senate
Mississippi seceded from the Union because it disagreed with the position of the equality of the races
Southern History Series: Alexander Stephens’ Virginia Convention Speech
Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens addresses the Virginia convention to argue for secession
Southern History Series: Libertas: Identitarian Liberty
We should reject universalist conservative and lolbertarian conceptions of “liberty” in favor of a particular sense of liberty embedded in time, culture, identity, history and place
Southern History Series: Liberty: Its True Meaning In Tidewater
In Tidewater, the meaning of liberty was being “unbound,” or having the economic independence as a Southern gentleman to enjoy a life of leisure while cultivating virtue, refinement and engaging in public service
Southern History Series: Founding Deep South
In 1670 and 1671, the founding fathers of the Deep South arrived from the Caribbean and dropped anchor off the coast of what is now Charleston
Southern History Series: Liberty: Its True Meaning In Carolina
In the Deep South, the meaning of liberty was economic prosperity and growth
Southern History Series: John Crowe Ransom On Progress
The Southern idea vs. the American idea
Southern History Series: Southern Civilization; or, The Norman in America
What is real and authentic Southern conservatism? It has nothing whatsoever in common with “mainstream conservatism”
Southern History Series: Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish
Documentary: Jim Webb’s Born Fighting: The Scots-Irish
Southern History Series: Cyrus Scofield and Dispensationalism
How was Judeo-Christian Zionism transplanted to Dixie during the poverty of the New South?
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama In The Twentieth Century (Economy)
A book review of Wayne Flynt’s Alabama In The Twentieth Century
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1920-1993)
From sharecropping to space in a generation
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1865-1920)
From Confederate Alabama to Colonial Alabama
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Until 1861)
Jeffersonianism retarded Alabama’s economic development
Southern History Month 2019: John Wilkes Booth Assassinates Abraham Lincoln
Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
Southern History Month 2019: Swallowing The Dog
In the aftermath of the War Between the States, ex-Confederate soldiers were forced to “swallow the dog”
Southern History Month 2019: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
A book review of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Victory In Charlottesville
A Virginia judge has ruled the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson monuments in Charlottesville are protected as war memorials by state law
Southern History Month 2019: Review: Michael Lind’s Land of Promise
A book review of Michael Lind’s Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
Southern History Month 2019: Review: C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
A book review of C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
Southern History Month 2019: Liberty: Its True Meaning In The Backcountry
In the Backcountry, the meaning of liberty was symbolized by the rattlesnake. It meant leave me alone
Southern History Month 2019: The Impoverishment of Appalachia
In the antebellum era, Appalachia had an economy on par with the rest of the South, but after the War Between the States it was ruthlessly exploited by Northern capitalists