Southern History Series: Confederate Racial Ideology
What did the Confederates really believe about race? Let’s find out
Southern Nationalism
Southern History Series: The Alternative, A Separate Nationality, or the Africanization of the South (1861)
In 1861, the South had to secede from Black Republicanism to prevent the Africanization of Dixie
Southern History Series: DeBow’s Review on African-Americans (1860)
What did the Confederates really believe about race?
American History Series: Review: The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
A book review of William W. Freehling’s The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
Southern History Series: Slavery In Texas
Slavery had a bright future in Texas in 1861
Identity Dixie Is Back
Identity Dixie Is back online
Southern History Series: Review: The Day Dixie Died
A book review of Thomas and Debra Goodrich’s The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866
Identity Dixie Has Been Deplatformed By WordPress
Identity Dixie has been knocked offline
Southern History Series: Review: A History of Missouri, Volume III: 1860-1875
A book review of William E. Parrish’s A History of Missouri, Volume III: 1860-1875
Southern History Series: Maryland, My Maryland
The first blood spilled in the War Between the States was in Baltimore in 1861
Southern History Series: The Secret History of West Virginia
West Virginia was occupied by the Union Army and illegally torn from Virginia by a cabal in Wheeling
Southern History Series: The Kansas-Missouri Border War
Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr.’s General Order No.11 ethnically cleansed four counties in western Missouri
Southern History Series: How Missouri Joined The Union
General Nathaniel Lyon launched a putsch that decapitated Missouri’s state government
Rebel Yell: American Nations, The Deep South
Michael Cushman on the history and culture of the Lower South
Southern History Series: L.Q.C. Lamar II on Reconstruction Mississippi
Reconstruction Mississippi was the saddest and the blackest tyranny that ever cursed this earth
Southern History Series: Jefferson Davis’s Exile In Canada
Ex-Confederate President Jefferson Davis was welcomed in Canada as a fallen hero
Southern History Series: Gov. John Jones Pettus on Black Republicanism and Mississippi Secession
Mississippi had to secede from the Union to avoid becoming a blighted land cursed with free negro morals which would be a cesspool of vice, crime and infamy
Southern History Series: Memphis Torchlight Processions
In February 1861, Unionists and Southern Nationalists held dueling torchlight parades through Memphis
Southern History Series: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens on the Causes of The War Between the States
Why did the Southern states secede from the Union? What was the cause of the War Between the States?
Southern History Series: An Ode To Another Time
A paean to militant Southern nostalgia
Southern History Series: John H. Reagan on Texas Secession
The irrepressible conflict caused by abolitionism finally bore the fruit of disunion in Texas
Southern History Series: Texas Declaration of Secession
Texas seceded from the Union to remain a White Republic
Southern History Series: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech
The Confederacy was built on the cornerstone of the acceptance of natural inequality
Southern History Series: Alabama Secession Commissioner Stephen F. Hale’s Letter to Kentucky
Alabama seceded from the Union to avoid being degraded to a position of equality with free negroes
Southern History Series: William Lowndes Yancey on The Temple of Our Liberty
William Lowndes Yancey, “the Prince of the Fire Eaters,” was Alabama’s great fire eater and played a pivotal role in the dissolution of the Union in 1861
Southern History Series: The History of July the 4th
Once upon a time, American Nationalism collapsed in the South
Southern History Series: Mississippi’s Secession Declaration
Why did Mississippi secede from the Union?
Southern History Series: Mississippi Secession Commissioner William L. Harris Addresses the Georgia Secession Convention
Mississippi seceded from the Union to protect a government based on equality of rights secured to White men in equal sovereign states
Southern History Series: Review: Mississippi’s War: Slavery and Secession
A review of a documentary on Mississippi’s course to secession and experience during the War Between the States
Southern History Series: Knights of the Golden Circle, Order of the Lone Star and Northern Mexico
The Mexican states of Nuevo León and Coahuila offered to secede from Mexico to join the Confederacy
Southern History Series: The Sacred Circle
In the 1840s and 1850s, Southern intellectuals began to chart a path forward out of classical liberalism derived from the organicist tradition of Romanic social theory
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led economic modernization