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Separate but Equal?

By Joshua Doggrell

A Review of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation (W.W. Norton, 2019) by Steve Luxenberg In 21st-Century America, there are precious few mediums through which the issue… »

Robert E. Lee and Me

By Gene Kizer, Jr.

A review of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause (St. Martin’s Press, 2021) by Ty Seidule A number of good historians have written reviews recently of… »

Separate but Equal?

By Joshua Doggrell

A Review of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation (W.W. Norton, 2019) by Steve Luxenberg In 21st-Century America, there are precious few mediums through which the issue… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Jim Crow
  • Joshua Doggrell
  • Plessy v Ferguson
  • Racism
  • Segregation
  • Steve Luxenberg

Robert E. Lee and Me

By Gene Kizer, Jr.

A review of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause (St. Martin’s Press, 2021) by Ty Seidule A number of good historians have written reviews recently of… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Gene Kizer
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ty Seidule
  • War for Southern Independence

Secession’s Magic Numbers, Part II

By Terry Hulsey

A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. A review of Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy (W.W. Norton, 1993) by George F. Kennan and The… »

  • Book Review
  • Colin Woodard
  • Featured
  • George Kennan
  • Secession
  • Terry Hulsey

The Greatest of All Leathernecks

By Rev. Benjamin Glaser

A review of The Greatest of All Leathernecks (LSU Press, 2019) by Joseph Simon. Anyone who has spent any amount of time in eastern North Carolina along the Atlantic shore or was blessed to wear… »

  • Benjamin Glaser
  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • John Lejeune
  • Joseph Simon
  • United States Marine Corps

Conservatism and the Southern Tradition

By Duncan Killen

A review of Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books, 2018) by Sir Roger Scruton. There is no such thing as conservatism, according to Sir Roger Scruton’s 155-page monograph, Conservatism: An Invitation… »

  • Book Review
  • Duncan Killen
  • Featured
  • Roger Scruton
  • Southern Conservatism
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition
  • Thomas Jefferson

Deep Water

By Jason Stewart

A review of Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (LSU Press, 2019) by Thomas Ruys Smith In Deep Water: the Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain prominent Mississippi… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Jason Stewart
  • Mark Twain
  • Mississippi River
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Tradition
  • Thomas Ruys Smith

James Henley Thornwell and the Metaphysical Confederacy

By Zachary Garris

A review of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values (Second Edition; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999) by James Farmer The role of religion leading up to the War… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • James Farmer
  • James Henley Thornwell
  • Slavery
  • Southern Religion
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Zachary Garris

Edmund Kirby Smith

By Wes Franklin

A review of General Edmund Kirby Smith C.S.A. (LSU Press, 1992 (1954) by Joseph H. Parks This biography is a must read for any student of the War for Southern Independence in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Kirby Smith
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Wes Franklin

John Brown’s Body

By Neil Kumar

A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993) by Otto Scott. The Leftist political violence that has engulfed the disintegrating American nation for much of the past year… »

  • Abolitionists
  • John Brown
  • Neil Kumar
  • Northern Studies
  • War for Southern Independence

Secession Becomes Thinkable

By Donald Livingston

A review of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020) by F.H. Buckley When asked whether a state can constitutionally secede from the United States, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brushed… »

  • Book Review
  • Donald Livingston
  • Featured
  • Secession

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