Stories related to the history and heritage of Dixie and the Southern people
Imagine the dishonor given to a dead soldier by placing the flag of the country against which he fought over his grave. Imagine decorating his grave site with the flag of a regime which killed hundreds of thousands of his people, violated countless of the women of his people, burned many of his country’s cities...
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Dr Charles Verlinden, professor of history at the University of Ghent and member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences in Belgium, explains in the first chapter of his important book The Beginnings of Modern Colonization (1970) that the colonial techniques which were put to use on the islands of the eastern Atlantic and across the...
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The Delaware Grays Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) met in April for Confederate History Month and commemorate adding two additional names to a monument which honours citizens of the Blue Hen State who fought for Southern independence. Delaware was once the northernmost part of a ‘seigneurial’ civilisation of wealthy and classically-inspired plantation societies...
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In yet another case of Yankee arrogance, we have Mr. John Flannery, a lawyer from the Bronx, NY who wishes to have a statue removed from the front of a courthouse in Leesburg, VA. The statue was erected in 1908 to honour the Confederate soldiers who valiantly defended Loudoun County from Lincoln and his...
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As noted in SNN’s study of the Golden Circle region and its origins, the South and the other classically-influenced cultures of the New World were heavily influenced by Renaissance thought and taken together formed a unique civilization of plantation societies that shared a common origin and many of the same struggles. In addition to their different...
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Robert Barnwell Rhett, the Father of Southern Nationalism, explained using clear language in his memoir the root of the conflict between the North and South in the 1860s. Rhett, who had served as a US Senator and a representative in the provisional Confederate Congress, wrote a report in the latter capacity which explained to European governments as well as to...
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The new SNN video below is an attempt at summarising the foundation of the Golden Circle region and the broader plantation civilisation that was created in the New World over the course of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is all about how the civilisation to which the Old South belonged was created...
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The following video is an introduction to the Golden Circle historical perspective, a subject that SNN has explored in depth over the last year and a half. In this video three distinct possibilities are discussed as the starting point of ‘America.’ Each is discussed in terms of the ideological trends and soci0-economic model which is associated...
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As Professor Ralph Raico has pointed out in public presentations, the United States media and academia tend to look with great favour upon US presidents who expand executive power and engage in war-making. Typically, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are at the top of the lists of ‘greatest presidents’ for those reasons. Of...
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William Porcher Miles was a Southern gentleman of many skills. He was a math professor in South Carolina, medical worker in Norfolk (when yellow fever struck the city in 1855), Mayor of Charleston, US Congressman, Confederate Congressman, plantation manager, university president (of South Carolina College), researcher (he helped Robert Barnwell Rhett compile the information for his memoir) and...
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Southern nationalists, the earliest and most ardent of whom were referred to as ‘Fire Eaters,’ struggled for more than three decades to convince Southerners of the necessity of independence from the Union. Men such as South Carolina statesman and US Senator Robert Barnwell Rhett (who spent all of his adult life leading the effort for...
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Dr T Hunt Tooley, professor of history at Austin College in Texas, recently spoke at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s yearly research conference and gave a review of the leaders of the US warfare state since William McKinley, the Ohio Republican president (and Union veteran of the US war against the South) who oversaw the...
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