Tag: Southern History

This is not meant in any way to justify slavery in the South. Few could be more for liberty and

In his lecture series on the Civil War, renowned historian Gary Gallagher explained that the South in 1863 did not

A government of unlimited or undefined powers will eventually become totalitarian. This was widely known amongst Southerners. Thomas Jefferson believed

“Slavery is only one of the minor issues and the cause of the war, the whole cause, on our part

“When the dogmas of a sectional party…threatened to destroy the sovereign rights of the States, six of those States, withdrawing

State Secession Documents With their actions and words, the states of the Upper South made it clear that Lincoln’s call

“If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is

I recently finished reading Mike S. King’s Dixieland Deceived: The Grand Conspiracy Behing the U.S. Civil War. While I share

It seems that we are regularly bombarded by attacks upon Southern heritage, history, Confederate flags and monuments, and often hear