Southern History Series: The Southernization of Missouri
Slavery, Civil War and the Politics of Identity in Missouri
White Supremacy
Southern History Series: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry (Agriculture)
A book review of Melissa Walker and James C. Cobb’s The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Southern History Series: Review: Colonial South Carolina: A History
A book review of Robert M. Weir’s Colonial South Carolina: A History
American Mind: Conservative Rationalism Has Failed
Yoram Hazony attempts to explain the failure of modern conservatism
Southern History Series: The Dred Scott Decision
In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney methodically used history and law to explain why blacks are not American citizens and how the Constitution was written only for the European posterity of the Founders
Southern History Series: Forging The Ethnostate
West Virginia originally banned all blacks in its state constitution
Southern History Series: Slavery In Missouri
Changing demographics thwarted secession in Missouri
Rebel Yell: American Nations, The Deep South
Michael Cushman on the history and culture of the Lower South
Southern History Series: The Integration of Central High School
Segregation was an international embarrassment for the American Empire during the Cold War
Southern History Series: Illiberal Ethnostates In Northern Arkansas
Northern Arkansas has a long history of racial violence and illiberalism
The Douthat vs. Serwer Debate
Ross Douthat and Adam Serwer debate the merits of Northern liberal democracy
Southern History Series: Karl Marx For Hillbillies
Gov. Jeff Davis was a populist who won the greatest landslide in Arkansas political history
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: 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: Slavery In Kentucky
Antebellum Kentuckians saw slavery as a curse that was being naturally drained away by the hand of Providence
Southern History Series: Sen. Henry Clay Condemns Abolitionism
Harry of the West condemned abolitionism out of concern for the liberty of his own race and posterity
Southern History Series: Spirit of the South
The Eufaula Regency spearhearded the secession movement in Southeast Alabama
Southern History Series: Race War! The Fort Mims Massacre
In 1813, the Red Sticks faction of the Creek Indians launched a genocide against White settlers in Alabama
Southern History Series: President Andrew Johnson’s Third Annual Message
In his Third Annual Message to Congress, President Andrew Johnson denounced the Radical Republican plan for Congressional Reconstruction
Southern History Series: Review: Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War
The Reconstruction era was defined by violence
Southern History Series: The Southernization of La Florida
The Florida Cracker settled in La Florida and made it a Southern state in the image of Florida Man
Southern History Series: Georgia: The Failed White Utopia
Georgia was originally intended to be a White ethnostate
Southern History Series: Sen. Robert Toombs Farewell Speech
Robert Toombs argues the questions of slavery and racial equality were up to the people of Georgia to decide
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: James D.B. DeBow on The Non-Slaveholders of the South
James D.B. De Bow’s Top 10 reasons why the interests of Southern slaveholders and non-slaveholders are identical in the secession crisis
Southern History Series: The Battle of Liberty Place (1874)
In 1874, the White League fought a pitched battle against General James Longstreet in the streets of New Orleans
Southern History Series: The White League of Louisiana
The White League was formed in 1874 as a resistance organization to overthrow Reconstruction in Louisiana
Southern History Series: The Texas Revolution and Anglo-Saxonism
Sam Houston fought the Texas Revolution with the Texian standard of the single star, borne by the Anglo-Saxon race to extend their dominion across North America
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: Hinton Rowan Helper’s Negroes In Negroland (1868)
In the aftermath of the War Between the States, Hinton Rowan Helper dreamed of building a transcontinental railroad to deport all blacks from the United States
Southern History Series: Sen. Zebulon Vance on the Federal Elections Bill of 1890
In opposing the Federal Elections Bill of 1890, Sen. Zebulon Vance bitterly recounts the experience of Reconstruction in North Carolina