Southern History Series: Why The South Lost The Second Reconstruction
The White South is a minority in the Union
Southern History Series
Southern History Series: The Second Reconstruction
Northern liberals used the power of the federal government to impose a sweeping social revolution on the country
Southern History Series: Review: The New South: 1945-1980
A book review of Numan V. Bartley’s The New South: 1945-1980: The Story of the South’s Modernization
Southern History Series: Suburbanization
During the 1950s and 1960s, Southerners moved from the farm into the geography of nowhere and gradually became highly individualistic deracinated consumers
Southern History Series: Cold War Military Spending
Cold War military spending gave us the Sunbelt
Southern History Series: The Rise of Modernism
The roots of the present crisis are more recent than you think
Southern History Series: Jim Crow Alabama
What is white supremacy?
Southern History Series: Black Belt Values
The South believed in a hierarchical order of inequality
American History Series: Deliverance Politics
During the War Between the States, the North and South each sought deliverance from the opposing side
Southern History Series: “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman On The Restoration of White Supremacy In South Carolina
Pitchfork Ben Tillman describes the Redemption of South Carolina
Southern History Series: All Men Are Created Equal
Why was the South so nonchalant about the Declaration of Independence?
Southern History Series: South Carolina Enters The American Revolution
The Founding Fathers of South Carolina were hardly civic nationalists
Southern History Series: The Humanist Origins of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Liberalism had nothing to do with the founding of Virginia
American History Series: Abolition and Racial Equality
A genealogy of anti-racism traces the roots of racial equality back to the Deep North in the Second Great Awakening
Southern History Series: Review: Hillbilly – The Real Story
A review of The History Channel documentary Hillbilly: The Real Story
Southern History Series: The Settlement of Trans-Appalachia
In the years before the American Revolution, pioneers crossed the mountains and began settling in Trans-Appalachia
Southern History Series: The Ancient Idiot
The modern cuckservative is the “idiot” of Antiquity
Southern History Series: Race War! The Conquest of Comanchería
The Comanches were once the terror of the American West
Southern History Series: Podcast: Damn Yankees!
An interview with George Rable author of “Damn Yankees!: Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South”
Southern History Series: The End of Slavery In Barbour County, AL
A look at how slavery ended here at home
Southern History Series: The Carolina Chivalry
A look at the Carolina aristocracy on the eve of the American Revolution
Southern History Series: Southern Racial Attitudes On The Eve of the American Revolution
What did the Southern Founders think about race?
Southern History Series: Slavery In The Alabama Canebrake
What was slavery like in West Alabama?
Southern History Series: The Southern Middle Class On The Eve of the American Revolution
North Carolina was the middle class Southern colony
Southern History Series: The Tidewater Patrician
A look at the Tidewater aristocracy on the eve of the American Revolution
Southern History Series: Southerners On The Eve Of the American Revolution
The South as it was in 1763 as it entered the American Revolution
Southern History Series: Review: The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina
A book review of Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole’s The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina.
Southern History Series: Huey Long on Progressive Sellouts
We’ve been here before
American History Series: Review: Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
A book review of Jack P. Greene’s Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
Southern History Series: Southern Decolonization
In 1940, the second colonial era came to an end in the South on the verge of the Second World War
American History Series: Review: America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation
A book review of David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation
Southern History Series: Huey Long vs. Conservatism
Huey Long and the Populist uprising that conquered Louisiana