Confederate History Month 2012: Stephen F. Hale’s Letter To Kentucky
Alabama Commissioner Stephen F. Hale of Alabama attempts to persuade his native state Kentucky to secede from the Union. “What Southern man, be he slave-holder […]
Southern Nationalism
Confederate History Month 2012: William L. Harris Addresses the Georgia Secession Convention
Georgia William L. Harris of Mississippi addresses the Georgia secession convention and gives a fire-eating statement of Confederate nationalism. As Harris explains to the Georgia […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Alexander Stephens’ The Cornerstone Speech
Georgia Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech in Savannah is unquestionably the most famous speech associated with the Confederacy. Stephens was speaking extemporaneously and later complained that […]
Confederate History Month 2012: Robert Barnwell Rhett on Disunion
South Carolina H/T SNN In a sense, Tim Wise is right that “there are some in the white community” who want to take us back […]
Trayvon Martin Supporters Attack Confederate Monuments
Louisiana Trayvon Martin supporters have attacked and defaced three Confederate monuments in New Orleans. This comes in the wake of the mysterious disappearance of the […]
Nathan Bedford Forrest Bronze Bust Stolen In Selma
Alabama The bronze bust of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in Live Oak Cemetery in Selma has disappeared. It was stolen in the middle of the […]
Liberal Democrat Proposes Removing Charlottesville Confederate Statues
Virginia Here’s a better idea: I propose we deport Kristin Szakos and her communist husband back to Hungary. We should tear down the Arthur Ashe […]
Southern Civilization; or, The Norman in America
Dixie In DeBow’s Review, J. Quitman Moore on the racial differences between the Anglo-Saxon and Normans, Puritans and Cavaliers, Yankees and Southerners: “But, when the […]
Alexander Stephens’ A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States
Georgia Alexander Stephens explains why the Southern states seceded from the Union and created the Confederacy: “Considerations connected with the legal status of the Black […]
Jefferson Davis Farewell Speech
Mississippi Jefferson Davis addressed the topic of negro equality in his own Farewell Speech to the U.S. Senate. The Black Republicans were justifying the doctrine […]
Alexander Stephens’ Virginia Convention Speech
Virginia In his Virginia Convention Speech, Alexander Stephens offers us a real contrast to the Baby Boomer muddleheadness that is so predominant in the “Southern […]
Virginia Flaggers vs. VMFA
Virginia Brooks D. Simpson has brought up the Virginia Flaggers in the context of my debate with Connie Chastain. I know very little about this […]
The Crusader: Sen. John Tyler Morgan and African Colonization
Alabama Sen. John Tyler Morgan of Alabama has always been one of my personal heroes. Morgan began his career as an aide to the fire […]
The Chastain Debate: Perish The South Rather Than a Principle
Alabama “Perish the colonies, rather than sacrifice one iota of our principles.” – Maximillien Robespierre I’m not sure how many OD readers saw the 400+ […]
Mississippi Advances New Immigration Law
Mississippi A year ago, I would have been more excited by the Mississippi House finally passing a new immigration law. It was frustrating to watch […]
Michael Hill on Southern Independence
Alabama SNN has a new podcast with Dr. Michael Hill of the League of the South about the impossibility of reforming the system and the […]
Robert Barnwell Rhett’s “Union of the White Race of the South”
South Carolina Robert Barnwell Rhett, the “father of secession,” looked forward to the day when the South would rise again and secede from the United […]
Apostles of Disunion: The Case for Southern Secession
Dixie Why did the Deep South secede from the United States and form the Confederacy in 1861? Charles B. Dew answered this question in Apostles […]
Robert E. Lee on African-Americans
Virginia In the aftermath of the War Between the States, General Robert E. Lee was interviewed by the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. Lee testified before […]
Freedom Failed: The Reality of Randolph County (GA)
Georgia “I am an aristocrat. I love liberty, I hate equality.” – John Randolph of Roanoke Cuthbert is a small town in Randolph County, Georgia […]
Negrophiles In Action
Tennessee I’m crossposting this here from the “Southern Heritage Preservation Group” on Facebook. These people are Negrophiles who believe in defending Southern heritage on the […]
The Star Spangled Rag
Amurrica I’m tacking this here as an outstanding exhibit of why for the first time in history the majority of Americans do not believe “our […]
Happy Robert E. Lee Day!
Dixie “I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.” […]
The Chastain Challenge
Alabama “I know further, sir, that we have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race—the free white race … I […]
Review: Shifting Grounds: Nationalism & the American South, 1848-1865
“As the great idea of the eighteenth century was that of union against tyrants, so it is that of the nineteenth century, the independence of […]
Confederate Citizenship
Arizona Brooks D. Simpson, a professional Ulysses S. Grant apologist and Kevin Levin doppelganger, is predictably horrified that White Southerners don’t want to be Yankees. […]
Southern Extremists Wrecking Republican Party
Dixie BRA’s dwarf Robert Reich has a new article in the Chicago Tribune (a Radical newspaper in the 1860s) which takes a swipe at White […]
Review: Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Dixie Elizabeth R. Varon’s Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 is a history of the concept of disunion in the Early Republic […]
Justice Department Blocks South Carolina Voter ID Law
South Carolina “Let it be that I am a Traitor. The word has no terrors for me…I have been born of traitors, but, thank God, […]
Jewish Judge Blocks South Carolina Immigration Law
South Carolina U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel has blocked South Carolina’s immigration law. This was entirely expected. Gergel was appointed by Barack Hussein Obama. […]
BRA Illustrated: James Harrigan on The Lost Cause
Virginia James Harrigan, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, had the following to say on Kevin Levin’s website Civil War Memory this morning. […]
Robert E. Lee Statue Vandalized
Virginia “Occupy Charlottesville,” or some lowlife criminal who sympathizes with their agenda, has vandalized the Robert E. Lee statute in Lee Park with the graffiti […]