Vast Public Indifference

Apparently, the most successful slave rebellion in the history of the American colonies succeeded because its leaders made a pact with the d...

I suppose you could argue that America has a long history of paranoid white populism , so, in that sense, perhaps "traditional" ...

Andrew Sullivan has a post up right now called " Looking at Race ." It concerns a poll that asks Americans whether they believe t...

"This has been a country built, basically, by white folks in this country."

I wonder where David Brooks gets his numbers. In his column today, he states that in 1960, the "average American" had almost 14 ye...

I'm currently listening to the unabridged audio version of Stephen Budiansky's The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox . I'm ...

This is disgusting. Karen Salazar, an English teacher at Jordan High School in Watts, was fired after administrators determined that her le...

Cross-posted from my new co-blogging gig over at American Creation : In March, Pat Buchanan wrote syndicated column called “ A Brief for Wh...

Over at Civil War Memory , Kevin draws our attention to a " Big Ass Confederate Flag " being erected on the side of a highway in F...

I'm sure I've asked this before, but I'll ask again: Is there a Poe's Law corollary for neo-Confederates? Recently, the Flo...

(Images in this post via unless otherwise noted.) If you are in the mood for a little righteous anger this morning, head over to Retouchi...

From my recent posts, the casual reader might conclude that I have not been reading very much lately. Fear not, dear reader: my single-hande...

I found a new blog today when I was rumbling around the tubes searching for more information on Lost Cause commemoration, Confederate Memori...

Yesterday, Professor O'Donovan spoke on the subject of memorialization in the decades after the Civil War with particular attention to p...

Today is the 135th anniversary of the Colfax Massacre , in which a mob of white Southern Democrats murdered at least 100 black men (exact es...

In light of the outcry in response to Amanda Marcotte's apparent appropriation of the ideas and words of another blogger, brownfemipow...