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Southern Whiggery, Bourbon Democracy, and Expedient Moderates

“Of one thing we may be certain at the outset. The durability of Origins of the New South is not a result

The Presidential Election of 1948 bewildered the American Empire and solidified itself in American politics as one of the greatest

Besieged in Richmond by the manlet Yankee horde, under the control of the Gains Goblin General Ulysses S. Grant, food

Before the War of Northern Aggression, Benjamin Dyer Merchant was working in his father’s mercantile business in Dumfries, Virginia. He

Dixie has gone through three distinct periods of Reconstruction. The first and most famous began in 1865 with Appomattox and

Foreword: This essay was originally featured on the old website before said site’s deletion from WordPress. This is a revised

Surprisingly little has been written of the dark period of American history known as the Reconstruction Era. Though, through the

Foreword: This post is a bit on the short side but important with all these controversial elections as of late.

A hero dragged through the mud.

The Reconstruction era was one of the darkest in American history in the eyes of unreconstructed Dixians. The economic, cultural,