Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
Tour of University of Texas Racial Geography, Emancipation, and The Lost Cause
The University of Texas now has a Racial Geography Tour of the famous campus in Austin. The tour can be explored in person or virtually…
“Gone With the Wind” Is a Confederate Monument Says Historian Nina Silber
Historian Nina Silber has an interesting article in today’s Washington Post titled ‘Gone With the Wind’ is also a Confederate monument, but on film instead…
The Curious Incident of the “Girl” Who Won the Daughters of the Confederacy Essay Contest
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) sponsored a lot of essay contests to encourage young people to learn “the true history” of slavery, the…
“The fundamental principle of Democracy is that Negro Suffrage is wrong” Debating the 15th Amendment in Georgia
In March of 1869 states took up the ratification of the 15th Amendment. One state where significant conservative Democratic opposition to the Amendment granting Black…
How Did American History Textbooks Remember the Ku Klux Klan?
The recent book Remembering Reconstruction has an essay titled “The Cultural Work of the Ku-Klux Klan in US History Textbooks, 1883–2015” by Elaine Parsons. The…
“An unwavering advocate for the supremacy of the Caucasian race”
I found this ad for a newspaper called The Independent Monitor in the Mobile Register. It states right up front that this is a Whites-Only…
University of South Carolina Honored Its First Black Professor (1873) With a Statue
Richard T. Greener holds two academic “firsts.” He was the first African American to graduate from Harvard (1870) and he was the first black professor…
Watch Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War” Recorded in Brooklyn Today
Historian Heather Cox Richardson gave a talk today at the Brooklyn Historical Society on her new book How the South Won the Civil War which…
Andrew Johnson’s Final “State of the Union” Analyzes the Problems of Reconstruction Dec. 1868
On December 9, 1868, President Andrew Johnson delivered his fourth and final “Annual Message” to Congress. We now call this the State of the Union….
White Immigrants Needed to Replace the Dying Black Race Alabama January 1869
After Emancipation, one of the continuing dreams of many white Southerners was that the “Black race” would die out or be exterminated. In this editorial,…