Blog Dixie Africanus Black slaves toiling in the fields of large plantations, gentlemen in frock coats and ladies…John MarquardtJune 14, 2022
Blog Boston, Home of the Bean, Cod, and Slaves In a penitent act of fiscal flagellation, Harvard University recently reported that it was establishing…John MarquardtMay 10, 2022
Blog The War of Secession A line from Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” In the case of the great…John MarquardtApril 12, 2022
Blog Segregation on Track: Plessy v. Ferguson In most minds today, the word segregation and the term “Jim Crow” immediately evoke a…John MarquardtMarch 18, 2022
Blog Beyond the Hunley As far back as the days of ancient Greece and Rome, people have dreamed of…John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2022
Blog Orphans of the Storm There once were more than fifteen hundred Confederate memorials, including over seven hundred major monuments and statues,…John MarquardtJanuary 10, 2022
Blog White Supremacy, Yankee Style In the warped minds of today’s so-called “woke,” even such an evocative holiday song as…John MarquardtDecember 9, 2021
Blog Rally ‘Round the Flag! As in the practice of lingchi, the ancient Chinese form of slow and painful execution…John MarquardtNovember 16, 2021
Blog The Reparations Rip-Off In the dis-United States today, far too many of its people have…John MarquardtOctober 6, 2021
Blog The Journey from Canaan to Carolina Biblical history tells us that Abrahamic monotheism, the foundation of not only Judaism but Christianity…John MarquardtSeptember 9, 2021
Blog The South’s Monument Man The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2-17) are the creed of both Christians…John MarquardtAugust 9, 2021
Blog The Amendment That Never Was The date of the latest federal holiday, June 19th, was touted as the one marking…John MarquardtJuly 14, 2021
Blog A Plague on the South While the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has also wreaked havoc throughout the South, there was…John MarquardtJune 24, 2021
Blog Angers Away Over half a century before the Imperial German Navy launched its new and deadly method…John MarquardtMay 13, 2021
Blog Foxes in the Henhouse During the past half century, there has been an ever-increasing tide of derogatory comments about…John MarquardtApril 14, 2021
Blog Dixie, Quo Vadis? Many today feel that true Southerners living in the eleven States of the former Confederacy…John MarquardtMarch 24, 2021
Blog The Big Monochrome Picture The principal character in Joyce Maynard’s 1992 novel “To Die For” said that if you…John MarquardtFebruary 25, 2021
Blog The Tarnished Tarheel Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1851 phantasmagorical image of slave life in the South has long been…John MarquardtJanuary 13, 2021
Blog The War in the Pacific The dramatic events leading up to the secession of the Southern States, the tragedy of…John MarquardtDecember 7, 2020
Blog Slavery and Emancipation 101 The roots of the myth that slavery was primarily a white Southern institution were planted…John MarquardtNovember 13, 2020
Blog 1619 Plus 2020 Equals 1984 In George Orwell’s novel “1984,” the central governmental agency in his fictitious country of Oceania…John MarquardtOctober 12, 2020
Blog As Luck Would Have It The tiny hamlet of Lake Hill in New York State’s Catskill Mountains was my mother’s…John MarquardtSeptember 14, 2020
Blog Knead to Know Today we are besieged with raucous cries on both America’s streets and its social media…John MarquardtAugust 7, 2020
Blog 1619 Lies Matter The dogs of racial war were released this May in Minneapolis by the senseless death…John MarquardtJuly 17, 2020
Blog A Voice of Reason Today, as it was a hundred and sixty years ago, America stands on the edge…John MarquardtJune 23, 2020
Blog Emancipate This! A Japanese neighbor of ours in Tokyo, a former university professor, has written a number…John MarquardtJune 5, 2020
Blog The South in Arms…What Might Have Been Literature, be it works of fact or fiction, might well be described as a window…John MarquardtApril 8, 2020
Blog The Economy, Stupid Just as the Earth revolves on its axis each day and travels around the Sun…John MarquardtMarch 13, 2020
Blog Confederate Christmas It was Thursday, Christmas day of 1862, and the guns at Fredericksburg had fallen silent…John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2020
Blog The Ghosts of Impeachment Past If one bothered to turn back the pages of history it should become quite evident…John MarquardtJanuary 8, 2020
Blog Not Just Whistling Dixie There are few Southern hearts that still fail to skip a beat or two when…John MarquardtDecember 13, 2019
Blog The Stoning of Stone Mountain There are really only two basic opinions when it comes to the world’s largest carving…John MarquardtNovember 11, 2019
Blog Behind Enemy Lines Just before Christmas of 1860, the chain of events that was to soon to lead…John MarquardtOctober 23, 2019
Blog Reconstructing the Reconstruction A book condemning the left-wing bias of one of the most widely read and educationally…John MarquardtSeptember 26, 2019
Blog Town Line, C.S.A. In his recent book, Call Sign Chaos : Learning To Lead, former Secretary of Defense…John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2019
Blog The Psychosis of Slavery When most Americans hear the word slavery today, their minds instantly conjure up only images…John MarquardtAugust 22, 2019
Blog The Dukes of “Hazzard” Following the senseless racial murders at a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015, Hollywood’s moonshining…John MarquardtJuly 26, 2018
Blog Tom Foolery There are neither Confederate monuments to be torn down in Japan nor Battle Flags to…John MarquardtJune 20, 2018
Blog White Knights of the North When the majority of people think of the Ku Klux Klan, there undoubtedly comes to…John MarquardtMay 24, 2018
Blog The Pickens Plot When the Pacific phase of World War Two began in December of 1941, Great Britain’s…John MarquardtApril 23, 2018
Blog The Arkansas Traveler It was Tuesday evening, September 16th, and people all across America were settling down for…John MarquardtApril 5, 2018
Blog Parallel Lines Of Division The complex issues which have and continue to divide America’s North and South have a…John MarquardtMarch 16, 2018
Blog In the Eye of the Beholder Once upon a time in America, in a far different and far more gentle age,…John MarquardtFebruary 5, 2018
Blog They Took Their Stand in Dixie Advance the flag of Dixie For Dixie’s land we take our stand To live or…John MarquardtJanuary 10, 2018
Blog Through a Lens Darkly There is an old saying in the theater that when one is acting the part…John MarquardtDecember 4, 2017
Blog A Little Change in the Weather We hear endless accounts today concerning the dire effects of global climate change, as well…John MarquardtNovember 10, 2017
Blog Russia vs. the Confederacy Russian-American relations over the past two and a half centuries, like the weather in Alaska,…John MarquardtOctober 16, 2017
Blog A Monumental Folly The gentle wave of what had been termed “monumania” that rolled over the South and…John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2017
Blog “Furl That Banner” During the past few decades, there has been an ever-growing sentiment throughout the Unites Sates…John MarquardtAugust 24, 2017
Blog A State of Mind On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Second…John MarquardtJanuary 5, 2017
Blog They Came From the East It is generally thought that when the earliest Homo sapiens arrived on the scene in Africa…John MarquardtDecember 9, 2016
Blog Rebel Redux Rumblings of open rebellion were in the air . . . a certain group within…John MarquardtNovember 14, 2016
Blog The Other William C. Falkner The date was Tuesday, November 5th . . . the year was 1889 . .…John MarquardtNovember 1, 2016
Blog Nullification vs. Secession? On the 21st of this June, Americans celebrated the 228th anniversary of the nation’s Constitution,…John MarquardtOctober 13, 2016
Blog Healing the Wounds of War Over the years, countless thousands the New Yorkers have passed by monuments in their city…John MarquardtApril 22, 2016
Blog The Muckraker and the War It was the spring of 1865 . . . the remnants of what once had…John MarquardtMarch 10, 2016
Blog Elephants in Dixie The origin of the elephant as a symbol of the Republican Party occurred in 1874…John MarquardtFebruary 9, 2016
Blog Southern Stars of David I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,…John MarquardtJanuary 14, 2016
Blog South from Egypt Illinois has been known as the “Land of Lincoln” for the past sixty years .…John MarquardtDecember 18, 2015
Blog Kentucky’s Baron Munchausen A century prior to the War Between the States, a German magazine writer, pseudo-scientist and…John MarquardtNovember 23, 2015
Blog King Kudzu “Cotton isn’t king in the South anymore … Kudzu is king!” Channing Cole, Atlanta…John MarquardtNovember 5, 2015
Blog Believe It Or Not… Criss-crossing the South, from Virginia and Maryland to Texas, and from Missouri and Tennessee to…John MarquardtOctober 9, 2015
Blog Civil Rights at the Casa Mañana At the Battle of San Jacinto in April of 1836, the badly outnumbered Texas forces…John MarquardtSeptember 28, 2015
Blog Japan and the South When William Faulkner visited Japan in 1955 to attend a literary symposium in Nagano, he…John MarquardtAugust 27, 2015
Blog Digging For Southern Roots With all due apologies to Samuel Clemens, I like to think of myself as a…John MarquardtAugust 17, 2015
Blog The War of Words The guns of the War Between the States fell silent a century and a half…John MarquardtJuly 30, 2015
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