Southern History Series: Sen. Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth Society
Huey Long debated Norman Thomas in 1934
Southern History Series
Southern History Series: Herrenvolk Democracy
Andrew Jackson, the Democratic Party and illiberal democracy
Southern History Series: Andrew Jackson’s Southern Identity
Andrew Jackson was a Southerner with a large following in Appalachia and the Old Southwest
Review: The Case for Nationalism
A book review of Rich Lowry’s The Case for Nationalism
Southern History Series: Backcountry Republicans
Their political vision presumed a social order based on inequality
Southern History Series: White Liberty
Why did the American South revolt against the British Empire?
Southern History Series: Slavery Myths: Southern Slavery and Human Development
The legacy of freedom is killing African-Americans
Southern History Series: The Tidewater Elite
The Tidewater gentry ruled Old Virginia
Southern History Series: The Golden Circle Colonial South
The Golden Circle perspective has gone fully mainstream
Southern History Series: Women and Slaves In The Colonial Chesapeake
There are aspects of our culture which are older than liberal democracy
Southern History Series: The Ice Age South
The American South was shaped by the last Ice Age
American History Series: The Civil Rights Act of 1875
America’s first experiment with integration was struck down by the Supreme Court
American History Series: The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was the coup de grace to the White Republic
American History Series: The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment is effectively a Second Constitution
American History Series: The Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 established birthright citizenship
American History Series: Distinctions of Rights
The traditional limits of classical liberalism were demolished during the Reconstruction era
American History Series: Second Founding
The American Empire was founded during Reconstruction
Southern History Series: Transplants
Transplants have changed the culture of the South
Southern History Series: The Unraveling of the South
The South has paid a heavy price for making the world safe for liberal democracy and free-market capitalism
Southern History Series: Blood and Soil: How Southerners Became a Separate and Distinct People
A brief account of the settlement of the American South and how the Southern people are the unique byproduct of their blood, culture and natural environment
Southern History Series: Why The South Lost The Second Reconstruction
The White South is a minority in the Union
Southern History Series: The Second Reconstruction
Northern liberals used the power of the federal government to impose a sweeping social revolution on the country
Southern History Series: Review: The New South: 1945-1980
A book review of Numan V. Bartley’s The New South: 1945-1980: The Story of the South’s Modernization
Southern History Series: Suburbanization
During the 1950s and 1960s, Southerners moved from the farm into the geography of nowhere and gradually became highly individualistic deracinated consumers
Southern History Series: Cold War Military Spending
Cold War military spending gave us the Sunbelt
Southern History Series: The Rise of Modernism
The roots of the present crisis are more recent than you think
Southern History Series: Jim Crow Alabama
What is white supremacy?
Southern History Series: Black Belt Values
The South believed in a hierarchical order of inequality
American History Series: Deliverance Politics
During the War Between the States, the North and South each sought deliverance from the opposing side
Southern History Series: “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman On The Restoration of White Supremacy In South Carolina
Pitchfork Ben Tillman describes the Redemption of South Carolina
Southern History Series: All Men Are Created Equal
Why was the South so nonchalant about the Declaration of Independence?
Southern History Series: South Carolina Enters The American Revolution
The Founding Fathers of South Carolina were hardly civic nationalists