Southern History Series: Thomas Carlyle’s Influence on George Fitzhugh
According to Thomas Carlyle, liberalism naturally weakens and degenerates the social fabric by driving “assiduous wedges” in every joint of social existence
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Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led economic modernization
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh Attacks Liberalism
In the 1850s, Southern political theorist George Fitzhugh attacks the philosophical foundations of Northern liberalism and free-market capitalism
Southern History Series: Ulrich B. Phillips on The Central Theme of Southern History
The essence of Southern history is the common resolve of White folks that Dixie shall remain a White Man’s Country
Southern History Series: The True Question: A Contest for the Supremacy of Race, as Between the Saxon Puritan of the North, and the Norman of the South (1861)
The Confederate war aim was to replace a flailing Democratic Republic which suffered from the excesses of liberalism with a Patrician Republic based on “ethnological facts”
Southern History Series: Thomas Jefferson on Sectional Differences
In a 1785 letter to the Marquis de Chastellux, Thomas Jefferson characterized the differences between Northerners and Southerners
Southern History Series: Allen Tate on Social Justice
In Allen Tate’s poetry, order and civilization take precedence over the claims of equality and social justice
Southern History Series: The Rebel Yell
Confederate veterans let loose the real rebel yell
Southern History Series: Religion and the Scots-Irish Frontier Experience
White Southerners largely came to the New World from Great Britain as Anglicans and Presbyterians, but later became Baptists and Methodists. Why did this happen?
Southern History Series: German Romanticism’s Impact on the Antebellum South
The American South was heavily influenced by the organicist tradition of Romantic social theory
Southern History Series: Review: Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
A book review of Elizabeth R. Varon’s Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Southern History Series: Kentucky Unionism
Why was Kentucky so reluctant to secede from the Union?
Southern History Series: Review: Shifting Grounds: Nationalism & the American South, 1848-1865
A book review of Paul Quigley’s Shifting Grounds: Nationalism & the American South, 1848-1865
Southern History Series: The Birth of Whiteness
White identity was forged in the crucible of sugar and slavery in the British Caribbean
Southern History Series: Review: Hubs of Empire
A book review of Matthew Mulcahy’s Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean
Southern History Series: Founding Greater Caribbean
The culture of the Deep South got its start as an extension of the older culture of the British West Indies
Southern History Series: The Genetic Basis of Southern Identity
We’ve been told a great lie by liberals that we are all “individuals,” but in reality the cultural geography of the South matches the genetics of historical migration patterns
Southern History Series: Confessions of a Carpetbagger
Daniel Chamberlain, South Carolina’s Republican carpetbagger governor, repented of the folly of Reconstruction
Southern History Series: The White Man’s Revolution of 1876
South Carolina was redeemed in 1876 when its people united behind Wade Hampton III, the greatest of all planters, and his Red Shirt Army which brought down Reconstruction
Southern History Series: John C. Calhoun Opposed The “All of Mexico” Plan
Sen. John C. Calhoun opposed the Mexican War and the conquest and absorption of Mexicans into the United States
Southern History Series: John C. Calhoun’s Scots-Irish Ethnic Heritage
Sen. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina was the South’s most eloquent slaveowner. He was also Scots-Irish
Southern History Series: Calhoun’s Prophecy
In 1849, Sen. John C. Calhoun and other prominent Southern leaders predicted that one day Whites and Africans would change positions in the political and social scale
Southern History Series: The Strange Career of Solomon Blatt
In South Carolina, Solomon Blatt led the fight to preserve white supremacy and segregation. He was also Jewish
Southern History Series: Pellagra
The pellagra epidemic of the New South was one of the lowest points in our history. If we can bounce back from that, we can come back from anything
Southern History Series: March of the Deathless Dead
Father Abram Joseph Ryan was the poet priest of the Confederacy
Southern History Series: The Virginians of the Valley
The Virginia Cavaliers used to be more than a sports team. It actually meant something
Southern History Series: The Good Roads Movement
In the early 20th century, Southerners dramatically changed their tune on “internal improvements” to become zealous promoters of federal investment in infrastructure
Southern History Series: Tobacco Mentality
The economic and environmental roots of Old Virginia’s classical republicanism and social structure
Southern History Series: The Cotton Gin
How did the development of the cotton gin alter the economy and culture of the Deep South?
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