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 Nationalism
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: The Rebel Yell
Confederate veterans let loose the real rebel yell
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: 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: Review: Hubs of Empire
A book review of Matthew Mulcahy’s Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean
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: 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: March of the Deathless Dead
Father Abram Joseph Ryan was the poet priest of the Confederacy
Southern History Series: A Southern Republic and a Northern Democracy (1863)
The Confederacy sought to create a Patrician Republic more congenial to the culture of the Cavalier
Southern History Series: The Southern Cross (1861)
From the shores of the Gulf to the Delaware’s slope
Southern History Series: Review: Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater
A book review of William C. Davis’s book Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater
Southern History Series: Jefferson Davis’s Farewell Speech To the U.S. Senate
Mississippi seceded from the Union because it disagreed with the position of the equality of the races
Southern History Series: Alexander Stephens’ Virginia Convention Speech
Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens addresses the Virginia convention to argue for secession
Southern History Series: Libertas: Identitarian Liberty
We should reject universalist conservative and lolbertarian conceptions of “liberty” in favor of a particular sense of liberty embedded in time, culture, identity, history and place
Southern History Series: Southern Civilization; or, The Norman in America
What is real and authentic Southern conservatism? It has nothing whatsoever in common with “mainstream conservatism”
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1865-1920)
From Confederate Alabama to Colonial Alabama
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Until 1861)
Jeffersonianism retarded Alabama’s economic development
Southern History Month 2019: John Wilkes Booth Assassinates Abraham Lincoln
Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
Southern History Month 2019: Review: A History of Appalachia
A book review of Richard B. Drake’s A History of Appalachia
The Great Plantation: A Better Paradigm
We need a better vision and paradigm of how to fix the South
Southern History Month 2019: Southern and Alabama Agriculture, 1860-1870
In aftermath of the Civil War, the Northern ideology of free-markets, free-labor, free men and free society triumphed in the American South, and this was the result
Southern History Month 2019: Wigfall vs. De Bow: Two Views of Southern Economic Independence
James D.B. De Bow was a Southern economic nationalist
Travelogue: Visiting Tidewater
Occidental Dissent visits Jamestowne and Colonial Williamsburg
Southern History Month 2019: The South as a Garden
The founders of the South wanted to cultivate an agricultural paradise
Southern History Month 2019: George Fitzhugh on The False Philosophy Of Our Age
George Fitzhugh on free-market capitalism
Identity Pellagra Is Way Off Base
Occidental Dissent has never been a lolbertarian website