Voting Rights in New England
By 1855, only five states in the Union had not restricted the voting rights of free negroes: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. […]
James Madison’s War Message
James Madison’s war message which was used to justify the War of 1812 included the following paragraph about the “Native Americans”: … except for one […]
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
At Firezone, a discussion of the origins of American anti-racism.
New Entries
Lots of new entries from the Early National Period have been posted to the American Racial History Timeline. The older version is online at Firezone.
Firezone
The new/old forum is located here. Check it out.
Chronicles in Spanish
I was going to write about this yesterday. Auster beat me to it. I have nothing to say aside from not being surprised in the […]
Occidental Dissent Forum
The Occidental Dissent forum has been restored. All the old posts and accounts are still there. I’m especially pleased to see that the original American […]
Rebecoming
Kunstler on his social vision: The sclerosis of American life is shocking. If you go further north up the Hudson River, to Fort Edward and […]
Correction: Reconstruction in New England
Free black males lost the right to vote in Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1818 and 1822 respectively. They got it back around the time […]
How Times Have Changed
A strong background in American history is the most thorough antidote that I know of to much of the nonsense that prevails in the mainstream. […]
American Racial History Timeline
I have restarted the American Racial History Timeline. Feel free to add contributions.
The Monroe Doctrine
As part of the Monroe Doctrine, the United States pledged not to intervene in European wars or “internal concerns.” I had forgotten that.
Monroe’s Racial Views
Another excerpt from Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: But in his enthusiasm for American institutions, the incoming president got carried away. “And if we look to […]
Auster on Tanstaafl
At View From the Right, Larry Auster has a new tirade up against Tanstaafl: Or, when I speak of “Europeans” and “blacks,” am I being […]
KunstlerCast #23: One City Block – Part I
(Listen Here) James Howard Kunstler often describes Saratoga Springs N.Y. as a classic Main Street American town. In part one of this special program, we […]
Indian Removal
An excerpt on Indian removal from Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848: White attitudes toward the Native Americans varied. […]
Thinking About White Nationalism
Jim Kalb has some thoughts this morning about White Nationalism: The basic problem with the approach, of course, is that “whiteness” doesn’t have much to say […]
Poll Finds Obama Isn’t Closing Divide on Race
Americans give lip service to diversity, but practice homogeneity. As it was eight years ago, few Americans have regular contact with people of other races, […]
Energy tsunami coming, ex-policymakers warn
Here. WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of 27 elder statesmen is sending an open letter to both presidential candidates and every member of Congress […]
Zmirak’s Vanishing Act
John Zmirak is suffering from a profound, secret, half-rationalized, fundamentally religious decision – a wrong one – to remain childless and unmarried, unlike my agnostic, irreligious […]
The Fall of Conservatism
Via Amitai Etzioni. In The New Yorker, a long article documenting the decline of the conservatism. By the end of the century, a movement inspired […]
“White Supremacy”
A post of mine from the SPLC’s Hatewatch blog: Jonathan, the term “White Supremacy” or Supremacist was invented by the Jews as a form of […]
Event Horizon
Kunstler’s latest: It’s hard to imagine what kind of melodramas were unspooling on the Hamptons lawns this weekend, while everybody else in America was watching […]
Stereotypes
Robert Lindsay on the stupidity of stereotypical anti-racist behavior.
Reconstruction in New England
An excerpt from Michael Fitzgerald’s Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South: By 1874 all of New England had outlawed de jure segregation in […]
Heinberg Interview
An interview with Richard Heinberg on the accelerating rise of crude oil prices since mid-2007. At the New York Times, a graph of the varying […]
Boomers are Depressed
After radically altering the nature of Americanism, the Boomers are worried about the future as they start checking out on life. A new study by […]
Obama, Oil, Iran
More on the Iran controversy: Calling the price of oil one of the world’s most “dangerous weapons,” Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on […]
KunstlerCast #22: Handicap Access
(Listen Here) James Howard Kunstler explores the consequences of handicap access regulations and how these codes have unintentionally promoted suburban sprawl throughout much of America. […]