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There was a time that the American mainstream was really interested in the US Civil War of 1860-1865. That time was before Obama’s gloomy second term empowered the insane asylum of weeping non-whites, deviants, mattoids, and Marxists that rejected all American history Read more …

Published: September 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bruce Catton, historical films, history, Ken Burns, Morris V. de Camp, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, polarization, political correctness, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry | 12 Responses

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On Reparations

Beau Albrecht

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What are we to make of reparations for slavery to American blacks? It’s become a frequently repeated demand lately, and might be even more so later on. The strange thing is that that the further away in time we get from slavery, which ended well before living memory, the pricklier the topic becomes. Likewise, demands for reparations Read more …

Published: August 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, Blacks in America, civil law, economics, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, reparations, slavery, white guilt | 22 Responses

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How Plessy v. Ferguson Came About

Morris V. de Camp

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Steve Luxenberg
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, And America’s Journey From Slavery to Segregation
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Steve Luxenberg is a Washington Post associate editor and protégé of the Watergate reporter Bob Woodward. In 2019, he published a book called Separate, which describes the Read more …

Published: June 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, articles, book reviews, Civil Rights, desegregation, identity politics, Jim Crow laws, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, segregation | 2 Responses

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The Real Meaning of Juneteenth

Robert Hampton

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Unless you’re a Texan, you probably never heard of Juneteenth until last week.

This holiday celebrates the end of slavery and has long been a minor holiday in the Lone Star State. It commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — where the Union declared all slaves in the state of Texas free, Read more …

Published: June 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, Abraham Lincoln, American conservatism, articles, boomer conservatism, historical revisionism, holidays, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, slavery, Texas, white dispossession | 10 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 | Also tagged Amerindians, articles, book reviews, Indian Wars, Manifest Destiny, North American New Right, originals, popular history, Spencer J. Quinn | 8 Responses

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Tribal Denialism

Robert Hampton

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Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past five years, you’ve probably heard about the “dangerous” return of tribalism.

Before 2015 (or before Obama, depending on the source), Americans didn’t put themselves in tribes. They only saw red, white and blue. Everyone was judged as an individual. Civility and decency reigned supreme. Race relations and gender relations were all just fine. Americans were one nation, under God and indivisible. Read more …

Published: May 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, identity, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, The Confederacy, the South, tribalism | 11 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 …

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

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Lincoln

Gregory Hood

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Lincoln is essentially Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with bigger words. The latter said the Confederacy was the product of blood sucking monsters to be destroyed with stakes to the heart and decapitation. The former tells us Southerners simply exist to be killed with bayonet and cannonade. Far from being the “moral relativists” of conservative imagination, Hollywood has given us a version of American history characterized by absolute portrayals of good and evil, with shades of gray permitted to righteous egalitarians only divided by what tactics can best be used to exterminate their foes. Read more …