Tag Archives: Reconstruction

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Thomas R. Pegram
One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011

The Ku Klux Klan suffers from a positively radioactive reputation, even among fellow Rightists. During the infamous family dinner scene in American History X, at which Edward Norton’s Derek Vinyard assaults his sister and displays his swastika tattoo to the Jewish teacher dating his widowed mother, Read more …

Published: August 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1920s, articles, book reviews, Catholicism, D. C. Stephenson, family values, fraternal organizations, Giles Corey, Hiram Evans, institutions, Ku Klux Klan, law enforcement, moral communities, morality, Nathan Bedford Forrest, North American New Right, originals, political infrastructure, political organizing, Protestantism, the Second Klan, white activism, white community building, William Simmons | 12 Responses

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

Spencer J. Quinn

2,365 words

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 …

Published: April 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged antebellum South, articles, commemorations, North American New Right, originals, postbellum South, Spencer J. Quinn, the Civil War, the South, Thomas Nelson Page | 3 Responses

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Richard Weaver’s The Southern Tradition at Bay

Spencer J. Quinn

4,517 words

Richard Weaver
The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought
New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1968

Richard Weaver’s The Southern Tradition at Bay has grown in both poignancy and meaning since its posthumous publishing in 1968. Originally Weaver’s 1943 doctoral dissertation at Louisiana State University, this work offers a survey of the most important postbellum literature produced by Southern writers until 1910 and ties it together with a philosopher’s breadth of vision. Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, postbellum South, Richard Weaver, Spencer J. Quinn, the South | 3 Responses

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Reconstruction by the Obama Court Historian:
Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Stony the Road

Morris V. de Camp

1,063 words

Although he was a supporter of President Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr. did the President no favor when Gates made a scene and was arrested by a Massachusetts cop in 2009. Obama unwisely commented on the matter and had to hold a “beer summit” to smooth things over later. The cost of Gates’s temper tantrum was staggeringly high: In no small part due to their racial animus, Gates (and the President) turned a minor misunderstanding into a national firestorm, all during a massive economic crisis and while Obama was trying to navigate his health care reform through Congress. Read more …

Published: February 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, culture, metapolitics, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, the civil rights movement, W. E. B. DuBois | 12 Responses

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The Second Death of Dixie

Taylor McClain

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Thomas Goodrich
The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001

Thomas Goodrich’s second book for Stackpole Books followed three years after his revisionist look at the culture of the American Indians in Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879. Read more …

Published: November 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Civil War, articles, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, Taylor McClain, Thomas Goodrich | 14 Responses

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Thomas Nelson Page’s The Negro: The Southerner’s Problem

Spencer J. Quinn

Edward Williams Clay, America, 1841.

2,701 words

Thomas Nelson Page
The Negro: The Southerner’s Problem
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904

After the Civil War, the defeated South needed a champion. It needed someone who could articulate the rationale behind the lost Southern cause in such a way that would allow for the reincorporation of the former Confederacy back into the Union without alienating its former enemies. Read more …

Published: April 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Civil War, antebellum South, Blacks in America, book reviews, lynching, North American New Right, originals, postbellum South, race realism, slavery, Spencer Quinn, Thomas Nelson Page | 4 Responses

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Remember Thomas Nelson Page

Spencer J. Quinn

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Shortly after the Civil War, the American South found itself in ruins. Much has been written about the devastation of the war and the indignities and strife which followed during Reconstruction. Beyond the poverty and oppression and the rapid demise of the old regime with its “outdated” culture of honor, loyalty, and heroism, the inheritors of the former Confederacy found themselves without defense in the national and international courts of moral opinion. Read more …

Published: April 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Civil War, American South, antebellum South, Blacks in America, Negro slavery, North American New Right, originals, postbellum South, race realism, Southern literature, Spencer Quinn, Thomas Nelson Page | 4 Responses

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Thomas Nelson Page’s Red Rock

Spencer J. Quinn

Thomas Nelson Page

2,641 words

The great American race novel currently does not even have a Wiki page.

Indeed, Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction by Thomas Nelson Page has generally been out of print since its publication in 1898 and is available these days only through publishers who specialize in reproducing historical works—or second-hand through online auction websites such as eBay. Thomas Nelson Page is one of the great lost American authors, Read more …

Published: March 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Civil War, American South, articles, Blacks in America, book reviews, Ku Klux Klan, North American New Right, slavery, Spencer Quinn, Thomas Nelson Page | 3 Responses

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The Birth of a Nation

Andrew Hamilton

3,246 words

The landmark of American motion pictures is an epic, 3-hour long, intersecting story of two white families, one Northern, one Southern, across three periods of time: the antebellum years, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Hinton Rowan Helper:
Harbinger of America’s New Dawn

Jack Pershing

Hinton Rowan Helper, 1829–1909

4,025 words

For most readers having a nodding acquaintance with American history, the term “abolitionist” conjures up a vision of a sentimental housewife like Harriet Beecher Stowe, a homicidal psychopath in the mold of John Brown, or some stone-faced Puritan negrophile. Read more …