Review: C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South
The rise of the New South
White Supremacy
The Southern Race Creed
A century ago, the Southern view on race
Review: Michael Cushman’s ‘Our Southern Nation’
The rise and fall of the Golden Circle
Oregon: The Failed White Republic
Interesting read: “When Oregon was granted statehood in 1859, it was the only state in the Union admitted with a constitution that forbade black people […]
Review: A History of Appalachia
Richard B. Drake’s A History of Appalachia is an excellent introduction to the history and culture of the people of the region. The book can […]
The Southernization of ‘La Florida’
Florida Why do we consider Florida a Southern state? What exactly is ‘Southern’ about Florida? If White Southerners are being demographically displaced in Florida, when did […]
Tom Watson Statue To Be Removed From Georgia State Capitol
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia recently signed an executive order authorizing the removal of the Tom Watson statue from the grounds of the Georgia […]
Review: Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
Dixie Clive Webb’s Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights complicates the traditional White Nationalist narrative of the Civil Rights Movement and the Jewish Question. […]
Jewish Confederates
CSA In the antebellum era, Jews were more likely than Gentiles to own slaves and were disproportionately involved in the slave trade. Jews went along […]
Southern Jews and Reconstruction
Dixie Here’s another fascinating excerpt from Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights on how southern Jews reacted to the demise of the […]
The Strange Career of Solomon Blatt
South Carolina Here’s an excerpt from Clive Webb’s Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights about Solomon Blatt, the Jewish Speaker of the […]
Caribbean Project: Were Georgia’s Poor Whites Exploited By Planters?
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 on the “exploitation” of poor Whites by the planter class: “Cultivating […]
Review: Dividing Lines (Birmingham)
Alabama Exactly 50 years ago, the Birmingham business community surrendered to integration as a result of pressure from the federal government and negative media publicity […]
50 Years Forward: 155 White Guys, the 1901 Constitution, and Birmingham’s Prosperity
Alabama David Sher’s “Comeback Town” has weighed in on Alabama’s 1901 Constitution. The 155 White guys who penned the 1901 Constitution are accused of creating […]
Alabama’s 1901 Constitutional Convention
Alabama This excerpt comes from Wayne Flynt’s book, Alabama In The Twentieth Century: “Delegates set the tone for their proceedings by electing a corporation lawyer […]
Joe Biden Visits Selma’s Magic Bridge
Alabama The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma has made the news again: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service […]
Joshua Giddings on the South
Ohio In light of John Bonaccorsi’s comments in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates thread, I will share another excerpt from America Aflame: How The Civil War Created […]
Review: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
American South Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman’s 1974 book Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery is a mythbusting revisionist tour of […]
The Modernization of Slavery
CSA, 1890 AD Andrew Hamilton has another excellent article on the Confederacy at Counter-Currents. While I mostly agree with his conclusions, I want to use […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
New World Philip D. Curtin’s The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex is a series of essays about the transnational entity that we have […]
North Star Project: The Repeal of Northern Anti-Miscegenation Laws
American North OD has spent the last several months exhaustively researching the shared racial history of the South and the Caribbean. While that research project […]
OD’s Indictment
British West Indies In preparation for writing OD’s first book, Shattering The Golden Circle: The Failure of Free Society in Dixie, Haiti, and the Caribbean, […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Amazing Grace (2006)
Great Britain Now playing … the story of William Wilberforce and British abolitionism. This is the whole two hour movie. I will write a review […]
Caribbean Project: Free Labor Jamaica vs. Slave Labor Cuba
British West Indies In Caribbean Project: Review: Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, we saw how the abolition of slavery in Haiti (1794) […]
Caribbean Project: Abolition and the Weakness of British Racialism, 1788 to 1838
Great Britain This is very significant: “Far from strengthening the authority of natural science on this question, the British debate over slavery tended to marginalize […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
New World In Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of New World Slavery, David Brion Davis sets the American South within the international context of […]
Caribbean Project: Racism: A History
BBC Watching now … the origins of the biggest sin in modern British society. Note: This is pretty silly. Europeans were obviously trying to understand […]
Selma Blacks Outraged Over Replacement Forrest Bust
Alabama They stole the original bust in the middle of the night … now they are willing to die to stop its replacement. WSFA.com: News […]
Bob Dylan Interview: “Stigma of Slavery” Ruined America
Rolling Stone Bob Dylan has given an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he is widely quoted saying that the “stigma of slavery ruined […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Slave Society In Cuba During The Nineteenth Century
Cuba Franklin W. Knight’s Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century tells the story of the rise and fall of Cuba as a race-based […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Caribbean Sea Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861 recounts the story of the South’s vision of Manifest Destiny in the […]