Caribbean Project: Review: The Mighty Experiment
Great Britain Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation is an attempt to understand the abolition of slavery in the […]
Great Britain Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation is an attempt to understand the abolition of slavery in the […]
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast that I did this afternoon on my review of Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis. Note: […]
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 […]
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 Stephen Palmie and Francisco A. Scarano’s The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples is a sweeping 600+ page overview of the […]
Deep South Here’s an excerpt from Philip Curtin’s excellent book The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex which develops many of the themes we […]
Spanish West Indies OD has spent several months intensely researching the rise and fall of slavery in the British West Indies, the French West Indies, […]
Delaware Colin Flaherty is doing such a great job following the slow burning Black Undertow race war that he has given OD and SBPDL the […]
Caribbean We have spent a lot of time this summer (while there is nothing else to do during the American election season) discussing the cultural […]
Saint-Domingue In Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, Laurent Dubois retells story of the single worst racial catastrophe that ever […]
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 […]
Guadeloupe In A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, Laurent DuBois focuses on the French Revolution as it unfolded […]
The Windward Islands The Windward Islands are the southern half of the Lesser Antilles: Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, the Grenadines and Barbados. Most of […]
Cuba Here’s a two hour documentary on the Spanish-American War: Note: While some antebellum Southerners fantasized about creating a Golden Circle slave empire in the Caribbean, […]
French West Indies Turning our attention to the French West Indies, we find the same debate over states’ rights vs. centralized government, conservatism vs. liberalism, […]
British West Indies Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean is an excellent book which sheds considerable light on […]
South Carolina William C. Davis’s Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater is a biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina, the […]
Dixie I continue to be impressed by this delightful book … here Woodward unwittingly destroys the preposterous Lincoln myth that there was an “American Revolution” […]
Jake Sherman interviews Donald Trump on the 2026 midterms
The “NS” fandom is significantly more reactionary than other fandoms
An identitarian review.
During the Great Depression, the expatriate writers of the Lost Generation fell to earth
In the Modern Age, religion and ethics takes a backseat to aesthetics and psychology
Why is the Northeast so weird? An introduction to The Yankee Question in American culture and politics
Politics often has very strange bedfellows. I should be a guest on this week, or next week’s The Political Cesspool radio show where I will […]
“When is this independence thing going to end?”
Medieval Spain foreshadows the Jewish Question
White Nationalists organize largest nationalist demonstration in memory
The big Cadillac tear-asses down the road like a rampaging dinosaur. Telephone poles fly by, barely made visible by headlights carving through a Louisiana night […]
Southern professor, author and conservative political philospher Richard Weaver wrote in his essay “The South and the American Union” (which appears in The Southern Essays of […]
A rejuvenated Dixie charts an independent course
The Pozz Right won’t save us
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