Category: White Supremacy Apologetics

I am just now reading David Blight’s history Yale and Slavery which can be accessed for free online. Here are things I learned from the…

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon published by Simon & Schuster (2023) Back in the 1960s when I first started…

Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer was a Presbyterian pastor whose Thanksgiving 1860 sermon was notorious for the boost it gave to Secession. Here is some of…

Artist Mickalene Thomas has put together an intriguing exhibit a the Yale University Art Gallery of portraits of African Americans in the pre-Emancipation period of…

This is the final installment of our Dunning Deep Dive. William Dunning was the leading academic writer on Reconstruction during the first half of the…

The July 1876 Hamburg Massacre was part of a series of terrorist acts planned by the supporters of former Confederate general Wade Hampton who was…

Kyle Whitmire of AL.com in Birmingham, Alabama has won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his excellent series on the impact of Confederate heritage on…

The April 13, 1873 Colfax Massacre in Louisiana took the lives of between 60 and 150 African Americans.  The Massacre was the most costly of…

If you have ever wondered what a mass rally for a presidential candidate was like in the 1860s, this list of the massive Democratic parade…