Southern History Series: The Religious Origins of Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia was inspired by the Bible
Southern History Series
Southern History Series: Review: At the Edge of Empire
A book review of Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancell’s At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America
Huey Long (Ken Burns Documentary)
PBS documentary explores the life of Huey Long
The Needless War
The Blundering Generation thesis was correct
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Sickness of Free Society
In 1856, George Fitzhugh predicted that liberal capitalism would undermine and eventually destroy itself
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Conservative Principle
Free society is a state “of dissolution and thaw” and “demoralization and transition”
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Morals of Free Society
The end of liberalism will come when it dissolves itself
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Declaration of Independence and Virginia Bill of Rights
The principles of the Declaration of Independence are at war with all governance
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on Atheism and Mob Violence
Those who do not believe or respect the government of God will not believe in, respect or obey the government of man
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on Religion and Philosophy
Stable governments are not based on abstract liberal ideals
American History Series: The Southern Revolution of 1861
What is the “successor ideology” to liberalism on the Right?
Southern History Series: How The Union Perished
In the late antebellum era, a group of Southern intellectuals created a new vision for the South
Southern History Series: Sen. Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth Society
Huey Long debated Norman Thomas in 1934
Southern History Series: Herrenvolk Democracy
Andrew Jackson, the Democratic Party and illiberal democracy
Southern History Series: Andrew Jackson’s Southern Identity
Andrew Jackson was a Southerner with a large following in Appalachia and the Old Southwest
Review: The Case for Nationalism
A book review of Rich Lowry’s The Case for Nationalism
Southern History Series: Backcountry Republicans
Their political vision presumed a social order based on inequality
Southern History Series: White Liberty
Why did the American South revolt against the British Empire?
Southern History Series: Slavery Myths: Southern Slavery and Human Development
The legacy of freedom is killing African-Americans
Southern History Series: The Tidewater Elite
The Tidewater gentry ruled Old Virginia
Southern History Series: The Golden Circle Colonial South
The Golden Circle perspective has gone fully mainstream
Southern History Series: Women and Slaves In The Colonial Chesapeake
There are aspects of our culture which are older than liberal democracy
Southern History Series: The Ice Age South
The American South was shaped by the last Ice Age
American History Series: The Civil Rights Act of 1875
America’s first experiment with integration was struck down by the Supreme Court
American History Series: The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was the coup de grace to the White Republic
American History Series: The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment is effectively a Second Constitution
American History Series: The Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 established birthright citizenship
American History Series: Distinctions of Rights
The traditional limits of classical liberalism were demolished during the Reconstruction era
American History Series: Second Founding
The American Empire was founded during Reconstruction
Southern History Series: Transplants
Transplants have changed the culture of the South
Southern History Series: The Unraveling of the South
The South has paid a heavy price for making the world safe for liberal democracy and free-market capitalism
Southern History Series: Blood and Soil: How Southerners Became a Separate and Distinct People
A brief account of the settlement of the American South and how the Southern people are the unique byproduct of their blood, culture and natural environment