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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In the summer of 1876 South Carolina, a formerly influential and wealthy State, was commonly referred to as ‘the Prostrate State.’ Journalist Alfred B Williams describes the horrors of the Reconstruction era United States military occupation of the Palmetto State in his book Hampton and his Red Shirts: South Carolina’s Deliverance in 1876 as...
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The economic interests of the industrial and financial elites of the Northeast had a great deal of influence on the events which brought war to the South in the 1860s and led to half a million deaths. John V Denson, an Alabama attorney, author and adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, writes about this...
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Dr Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute and former economic analyst for Alabama Governor Fob James, recently appeared on Next News Network to discuss Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln film and how the portrayal of the sixteenth president of the United States compares to the real Lincoln. Dr Thornton noted that while the acting and production in the movie is...
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Dr Walter E Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, points out in a recent article at LewRockwell.com that despite the box office success and critical praise for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, in real life the sixteenth US president was a hypocrite on the three major issues of his time: secession, slavery and the...
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One way to understand the conflict of the 1860s between the North and South is in terms of a moral crusade by the North to stamp out slavery and defend free, republican government. This is the simplistic interpretation advanced by Northern historian and Leftist author Bruce Levine, for instance, in his book, The Fall of...
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Alabama attorney, historian and author John V Denson was recently interviewed on Lew Rockwell’s podcast. In this interview he talked about various history books he recommends which challenge US-promoted myths about the past. In the except below you can hear his take on the 1848 Revolutions in Europe and the mass influx of Leftists to...
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While watching the Florida State Seminoles play against the Florida Gators yesterday afternoon I was appalled by a commercial (see video below) glorifying Abraham Lincoln and celebrating the South’s conquest by the United States. The commercial singles out for praise a bill introduced by US Congressman Justin Morrill, a New England protectionist and one...
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Following the conquest of the independent South by the United States in 1865, former Confederate President Jefferson Davis was imprisoned for two years without trial. The story of his imprisonment and subsequent release is fairly well known. What is less known is his stay in Quebec and his family’s connections there. An SNN reader...
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Settlers in early colonial South Carolina divided into partisan groups according to their class, economic and political interests, much as people do today. The most powerful faction at that time was a group called the Goose Creek Men. These were Englishmen with Barbadian roots (as were at least half of the Carolina colonists between 1670...
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Along with Robert Barnwell Rhett and William Gilmore Simms, one of the strongest voices for Southern independence in the months and years leading up to secession was William Porcher Miles. As we have seen in an earlier article, Miles was one of the South’s most able leaders and as Mayor of Charleston and later...
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The only English-language daily paper in Montreal, Quebec has an encouraging article out today which explodes several popular myths about Abraham Lincoln while reviewing Steven Spielberg’s new movie Lincoln. Writer Kevin Gutzman takes on Lincoln on many fronts in his lengthy piece, which will surely please Southern nationalists. Gutzman writes: The trailer for Steven...
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