Southern History Series: Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech
The Confederacy was built on the cornerstone of the acceptance of natural inequality
White Supremacy
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: Antebellum Christianity and Southern Racialism
History shows that evangelical Christianity is what the present generation makes of it
Southern History Series: Robert E. Lee on Racial Differences
Robert E. Lee was a humane race realist
Southern History Series: Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and The Partisan Leader
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker was an architect of Confederate nationalism and wrote the SIEGE of his generation
Southern History Series: Review: Planting an Empire
A book review of Jean B. Russo and J. Elliot Russo’s Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America
Southern History Series: The Stono Rebellion
In South Carolina, the Stono Rebellion was the largest slave uprising in colonial America
Southern History Series: The Yamasee War
In Colonial South Carolina, White racial attitudes were shaped by a brutal race war with the Indians
Southern History Series: Bilbo’s Prophecy
Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi predicted that the “floodgates of hell” would be opened up by integration and that interracial rape would explode in the South
Southern History Series: A Governor Bitterly Opposes Negro Education
At the dawn of the 20th century, agrarian populists triumphed over conservative elites in many of the Southern states
Southern History Series: The Day Mississippi Almost Revolted The Second Time
The Battle of Oxford in 1962 could have easily taken an explosive course which would have altered history
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: Race War! The Origins of White Nationalism
The 1622 massacre of English settlers in Jamestown in a surprise attack was America’s first race war and decisively shaped Southern attitudes toward American Indians
Southern History Series: The Emergence of White Identity In The Chesapeake
The evolution of White identity in the Chesapeake
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: 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: 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: 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
Rebel Yell: American Nations, Spanish Caribbean
The plantation complex spread throughout the Caribbean, South America and the American South
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: 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
Southern History Month 2019: Review: C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
A book review of C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913