Author Archives: Spencer J. Quinn

Spencer J. Quinn

Michael Hoffman’s They Were White & They Were Slaves

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Michael Hoffman
They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America
Dresden, New York: Wiswell Ruffin House

Every few years or so a book comes around that rips your foundations from under you and makes you re-question pretty much everything. For me, Kevin MacDonald’s Culture of Critique and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago are two such books. Michael A. Hoffman’s They Were White and They Were Slaves is another. Read more …

Published: October 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged abolitionism, articles, Blacks in America, book reviews, class, class conflict, economics, indentured servitude, Michael Hoffman, North American New Right, originals, revolution, slavery, Spencer J. Quinn, the working class | 27 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser
Only White Identity Can Save Western Civilization

Spencer J. Quinn

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Counter-Currents is trying to raise $150,000 this year. Thus far, we have received 660 donations for a total of $94,696.84.

In our last update, we announced a $5,000 matching grant, which was met with an outpouring of support that quickly used it up and carried us well beyond. I want to thank all of our donors, Read more …

Published: October 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser, Spencer Quinn, Western civilization, white identity | 8 Responses

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Jake Gardner & the Dissident’s Dilemma

Spencer J. Quinn

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Are you furious yet?

White Americans: If the recent Jake Gardner affair has taught us anything, it’s that our elite that now occupies most of the government and nearly all of the mainstream media has rigged the system against us. Read more …

Published: October 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, articles, Black Lives Matter, black supremacy, Jake Gardner, lawfare, North American New Right, originals, self-defense., Spencer J. Quinn, violence, white dispossession | 19 Responses

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This is Why We Had Segregation

Spencer J. Quinn

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With so much unrest happening in so many places these days, it’s hard to make sense of it all. America is fracturing, that much we can see. But as with an earthquake, all the tidal waves and crumbling structures don’t give us a view of the tectonic plates rumbling deep beneath the surface. But if we could see those tectonic plates, Read more …

Published: September 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, articles, Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump, implicit racism, implicit whiteness, insurrection, North American New Right, originals, segregation, Spencer J. Quinn, violence | 20 Responses

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A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks & Africa:
A Review

Spencer J. Quinn

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Jared Taylor, ed.
A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa
Oakton, Virginia: New Century Foundation, 2020

More than any of the required reading produced by American Renaissance, A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks and Africa captures the essence of what American Renaissance is all about. Racial differences lead to racial preferences, and Jared Taylor has built a career Read more …

Published: September 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged A Dissident's Guide to Blacks and Africa, Africa, American Renaissance, articles, black criminality, Blacks in America, book reviews, Dan Roodt, demographic transition, ethics, F. Roger Devlin, Frances Cress Welsing, Gedaliah Braun, Heinrich B. Zaayman, Jared Taylor, language, Marian Evans, morality, North American New Right, originals, Paul Theroux, Sade Adebayo, Spencer J. Quinn, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Jackson, Zora Wheatley | 24 Responses

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Benjamin Ginsburg’s How the Jews Defeated Hitler

Spencer J. Quinn

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Benjamin Ginsburg
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Benjamin Ginsburg has his uses for the Dissident Right. As a Jewish author who sometimes airs dirty Jewish laundry for his readers, he can be placed in the same category as David Cole — Jews who offer critical assessments of their own people that justify the claims of anti-Semites, Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, Benjamin Ginsburg, book reviews, Jews in America, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question, World War II | 16 Responses

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Will the Real Jessica Krug Please Sit Down?

Spencer J. Quinn

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Recently, Jessica Krug, a Jewish Left-wing activist and professor at George Washington University, revealed that she had been assuming black and Latino identities for a good deal of her adult life. Krug’s confession, entitled “The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies,” is about as angst-ridden and precious as a breakup poem penned by a fourteen-year-old girl. She has admitted to the world that, although she still supports Black Power, Cancel Culture, Read more …

Published: September 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, blackface, crypsis, identity, Jessica Krug, Jews in America, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 9 Responses

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Stolypin vs. Bogrov:
Themes of Ethnonationalism in Solzhenitsyn’s August 1914

Spencer J. Quinn

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The white man stood tall and proud. He was handsome and confident, and was well-dressed in his white summer-weight frock coat. Regal, although not quite the Tsar. As Prime Minister, he was the next best thing. Despite this, Pyotr Stolypin had remarkable little security around him when he attended a play at the Kyiv Opera House on September 14th, 1911. His relationship with the Tsar had soured a bit recently due to his insistence that the local governments of the western provinces (called zemstvos) be dominated by the Russian people and not the influential Polish landowners. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, August 1914, Bolshevik Revolution, book reviews, Communism, identity, Jews in Russia, Mordecai Bogrov, North American New Right, originals, Pyotr Stolypin, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 2 Responses

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In Defense of Kyle Rittenhouse

Spencer J. Quinn

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More shots have been fired in the trial run of the second American Civil War.

On August 25th, Kyle Rittenhouse, a seventeen-year-old citizen-militia member, was attacked at least twice by a Black Lives Matter and Antifa mob during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was armed with a rifle, and with it killed two of his attackers and injured a third. Read more …

Published: August 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, articles, Black Lives Matter, Kyle Rittenhouse, militias, North American New Right, originals, self-defense., Spencer J. Quinn, violence, white dispossession | 83 Responses

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I’d Rather Have the Klan Than This

Spencer J. Quinn

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Mandatory Altruism.

If there’s a central defining feature of education and upbringing in the West among whites, Mandatory Altruism seizes that distinction. It’s the idea that a person’s moral worth depends upon how much he (or, more importantly, she) pines for the welfare of people unlike her. Read more …

Published: August 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, anti-white double standards, apathy, articles, Black Lives Matter, mandatory altruism, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, pathological altruism, self-interest, Spencer J. Quinn, suicide, tokenism, violence, white dispossession | 18 Responses

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Wargaming Secession, Part 2:
Introducing the ISEE Model of White Survival

Spencer J. Quinn

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The aphorism “Never let a crisis go to waste” may soon have historic consequences beyond what most of us can imagine. Maybe as soon as November.

The first part of this series, “Trump Should Wargame Secession, Too,” outlines the various ways Read more …

Published: August 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 presidential election, antifa, articles, Black Lives Matter, Blacks in America, Civil War, Donald Trump, East Coast, insurgency, Jews in America, North American New Right, originals, secession, separatism, Spencer J. Quinn, strategy, tactics, the ethnostate, violence, West Coast | 22 Responses

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Trump Should Wargame Secession, Too

Spencer J. Quinn

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Earlier this month, the New York Times revealed that top-level Democrats have been wargaming possible outcomes of the November 2020 election and are considering secession if things don’t go their way. This should come as a surprise to no one. Since the epoch-changing George Floyd riots — which began in May and are still ongoing Read more …

Published: August 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, Calexit, Civil War, coup, Donald Trump, North American New Right, originals, partition, polarization, secession, Spencer J. Quinn, strategy, the Democratic party, wargames, West Coast | 28 Responses

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The Prison Plays of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spencer J. Quinn

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Known mostly as a novelist, memoirist, and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had actually completed four plays before his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published in 1962. He composed his first two, Victory Celebrations and Prisoners, while a zek in the Soviet Gulag Read more …

Published: August 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, conservatism, corruption, dissidence, gulags, honor, idealism, identity, ideology, Jews in literature, life, love, loyalty, North American New Right, originals, play reviews, plays, radicalism, romance, Russia, Russian literature, Soviet Union, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question, truth | 1 Response

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Knut Hamsun’s Hunger

Spencer J. Quinn

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Oh, what strange freaks one’s thoughts are guilty of when one is starving.

— Knut Hamsun, Hunger

Back in my misspent youth, I took a seminar on creative writing. One of the instructors gave the class a piece of advice which I never heeded. She said that if you want to be good enough at writing to make a living at it, don’t be good at anything else. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, book reviews, fiction, Hunger, insanity, Knut Hamsun, modern literature, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, survival | 4 Responses

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Wallet Lives Matter!
Or, Will the Real Racist Please Stand Up

Spencer J. Quinn

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The anti-white, former ESPN personality Jemele Hill tweeted something stupid again recently. But it was inadvertently interesting, and so worthy of comment. She initially tweeted this: Read more …

Published: July 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, black supremacism, Donald Trump, identity, North American New Right, originals, racism, rhetoric, Spencer J. Quinn | 39 Responses

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Not So Funny Anymore: Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities

Spencer J. Quinn

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Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
New York: Bantam, 1987

When the Left finally gets around to banning (or burning) classic novels, Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities will likely be on the top of the list. Unlike Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Bonfire’s great sin is not merely being linguistically taboo but substantively taboo as well. Read more …

Published: July 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Blacks in America, book reviews, Jews in America, justice, mainstream media, New York City, North American New Right, originals, satire, Spencer J. Quinn, Tom Wolfe, WASPs, white dispossession | 8 Responses

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We Need a White Underground Railroad

Spencer J. Quinn

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On July 1st, 2020, what should have been a minor dust-up in a suburb of Detroit has become international news. As a result, it’s becoming clear that more and more whites are having their lives trampled upon by the self-destructive madness that’s been engulfing America in the After-Floyd Era. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anti-white double standards, anti-white media, anti-white propaganda, articles, black criminality, North American New Right, originals, self-defense., Spencer J. Quinn, violence, white dispossession | 34 Responses

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Welcome to Year 1 of the After-Floyd Era

Spencer J. Quinn

Detail, Pietr Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, 1562-1563.

1,683 words

It feels like a slap in the face when you think you are living in interesting times, but then you realize, no. No, you were not. Those times, or really, our memories of those times which slowly evaporate even as they cling more tightly to the fear centers and emotion hubs of our minds, were not terribly interesting at all, were they? Read more …

Published: July 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, cancel culture, deplatforming, George Floyd, history, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, paradigm shifts, political violence, Spencer J. Quinn, violence | 42 Responses

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March 1917 in June 2020

Spencer J. Quinn

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A recurring theme in Book 1 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917 — or Node III of his vast Red Wheel opus — is “this could have been prevented.” Of course, this refers to the first successful socialist revolution in Russia, which took place in March 1917 (or in February, according to the Julian Calendar). In March 1917, Solzhenitsyn offers a wealth of perspective on the fateful events in Petrograd which led to the abdication of the Tsar and the monarchy’s ultimate replacement with the Provisional Government. Read more …

Published: June 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, authority, Black Lives Matter, Blacks in America, Bolshevik Revolution, book reviews, Communism, Donald Trump, fake news, Jews in America, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, police, revolution, riots, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn, violence | 12 Responses

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Black Lives Matter is Black Supremacy

Spencer J. Quinn

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If there is one universal truth about humanity, it’s that we are, by nature, tribalistic. We identify with our tribe, whatever that tribe may be. In a monoracial society, tribalist loyalties can form around clans, nations, religions, classes, or even actual tribes, as is the case in many places in Africa. In multiracial societies, however, everything boils down to race. Read more …

Published: June 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, articles, Black Lives Matter, black supremacism, blacks and Jews, Blacks in America, ethnomasochism, North American New Right, originals, slavery, Spencer J. Quinn, tribalism, violence, white dispossession | 9 Responses

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An Open Letter to White Police Officers

Spencer J. Quinn

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Perhaps many of you will remember this.

On April 1st, 2007, two white police officers were executed by a black thug named Demeatrius Antonio Montgomery. Officers Sean Clark and Jeffrey Shelton were responding to a disturbance call Read more …

Published: June 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, black criminality, black on white crime, law enforcement, North American New Right, originals, police, segregation, Spencer J. Quinn | 11 Responses

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We Have Indulged Them Long Enough

Spencer J. Quinn

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I don’t like black people. Let’s get that out of the way right now. Yes, in my life there have been perhaps three black individuals that I was truly fond of (one of whom I still am). But as a group, I recognize that black Africans represent a particularly violent threat to Western civilization, a civilization I love dearly. Read more …

Published: June 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, anti-white racism, articles, black criminality, Blacks in America, civility, culture wars, double standards, hypocrisy, North American New Right, originals, racial divorce, Spencer J. Quinn, white disposession | 36 Responses

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The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser
A Home Run for Counter-Currents

Spencer J. Quinn

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Counter-Currents needs to raise $150,000 this year. Since our last update, we have received 41 donations totaling $5,189.97. This brings our total to 215 donations and $19,459.02.

Here’s a story about Babe Ruth. One day in 1921, the New York Yankees were traveling by train to a baseball game with the team in one car, and the sportswriters in another. And everything was going swimmingly until, Read more …

Published: June 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged fundraiser, Spencer J. Quinn | 3 Responses

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They Do This Because They Can

Spencer J. Quinn

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On January 18th, 2016, a white police officer named Philip Brailsford shot and killed an unarmed man named Daniel Shaver in Mesa, Arizona. Shaver had been in a hotel room where he innocently pointed a pellet gun towards his window. A witness called the police, who arrived and found Read more …

Published: June 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 American riots, antifa, antifascists, articles, Black Lives Matter, Civil War, George Floyd, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, polarization, racial polarization, riots, Spencer J. Quinn, violence | 42 Responses

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Constantinople (Not Istanbul)

Spencer J. Quinn

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One fascinating conundrum I have been dealing with for years juxtaposes Istanbul/Constantinople the city with “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” the song. I cannot plumb the depths of this since, on one hand, the fall of Constantinople on May 29th, 1453 (today is the 567th anniversary) was a sheer catastrophe for the West — be it for Christendom or for the white race, however you want to look at it. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Byzantine Empire, history, music, North American New Right, originals, Ottoman Empire, Spencer J. Quinn, Turkey, white dispossesion | 10 Responses

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Weaponizing Money

Spencer J. Quinn

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The first question posed to Greg Johnson and Fróði Midjord during the recent Counter-Currents livestream was, “If you could re-live your twenties, what would you do differently?” Greg’s answer was direct, clear, and quite pertinent to those of us considering an academic career — in the humanities, at least. Short answer: Don’t. Good advice. Read more …

Published: May 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, careers, lawfare, money, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, youth, youth activism | 21 Responses

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin in Zürich

Spencer J. Quinn

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In 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn excised the several Lenin chapters from his massive and unfinished Red Wheel epic and compiled them into one volume entitled Lenin in Zürich. At the time, only one of these chapters had been published — in Knot I of the Red Wheel, known as August 1914 — while the remaining chapters would still have to languish in the author’s desk drawer for decades before appearing as part of The Red Wheel proper (November 1916 and March 1917, specifically). Read more …

Published: May 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, articles, book reviews, Communism, North American New Right, originals, socialism, sociopathy, Spencer J. Quinn, Switzerland, Vladimir Lenin | 11 Responses

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S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon

Spencer J. Quinn

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S.C. Gwynne’s magnificent Empire of the Summer Moon hits as hard as literature can hit and offers history as a form of sublime entertainment. I believe the author wouldn’t take all the credit for his book’s success, since the subject matter — which is, as the subtitle tells us, the rise and fall of the nineteenth-century Comanche nation — is so fascinating, so packed with action, so rife with contradictions, so laden with heart-wrenching drama, and so existential in its meaning, the story pretty much writes itself. Read more …

Published: May 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Amerindians, articles, book reviews, Indian Wars, Manifest Destiny, North American New Right, originals, popular history, Spencer J. Quinn, the Civil War | 8 Responses

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Now Let Us Praise Great Jewish Violinists

Spencer J. Quinn

Itzhak Perlman

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Nothing can divide white people more than the presence of non-whites: blacks and Jews, especially. It seems that whites just can’t agree on what to do with them — other than to fight over them. One side will identify with the non-whites’ supposed outsider status and remain in thrall of their charms and talents. The other side will, well, see them for what they are.

I was reminded of this state of affairs regarding Jews when reading another brief essay by Kim du Toit. Read more …

Published: April 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, classical music, Jews in music, Kevin MacDonald, Kim du Toit, NAXALT, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn | 38 Responses

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Remembering Thomas Nelson Page
(April 23, 1853 — November 1, 1922)

Spencer J. Quinn

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After the Civil War, the American South was in ruins. Beyond the poverty, oppression, and the rapid demise of the old regime, however, the inheritors of the former Confederacy found themselves without defense in the national court of moral opinion. They were a defeated people who had drawn arms against a tolerant and progressive government in order to cling to outmoded ways of life, including (most offensively to some) the ancient practice of slavery.

Those who pined for the South’s days of greatness needed a champion. During the postbellum period, Thomas Nelson Page was one such champion. Read more …