Southern Unity Goes Up in Smoke
The Nashville Convention of 1850 was supposed to undermine the two-party system in the South, achieving John C. Calhoun'
Extremists Take Over in the Wake of the John Brown Raid
This week's video introduces viewers to the "Secret Six," a group of Northern elites whose clandestine
Whistler's West Point Experience
During Robert E. Lee's tenure as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point in the
Spanish Disintegration and the Old South
In 1786, American foreign secretary John Jay and Diego de Gardoqui, the Spanish foreign minister to the United States, negotiated
Northern Ulterior Motives on Black Suffrage
Somewhat counterintuively, by the time the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, in 1870, black male suffrage had already come to all
Confederate VP Backs Black Suffrage from Prison
Although Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens owned slaves and argued that blacks themselves benefited from being enslaved, in a
Resistance Not Rebellion: How Blacks Survived Slavery
This week's episode looks at how antebellum black Americans survived slavery in the South and segregation fueled by
Was the Civil War Really "About" Slavery?
This week's video looks at how Northern sympathizers and Southern sympathizers tend to talk past each other when
Confederate Senator Yancey Juggles State Sovereignty with Military Necessity
This week's video wraps up my four-part series on the life of Alabama fire-eater William Lowndes Yancey. As
How Seward's Blunders Nearly Led to British Recognition of the Confederacy
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving. I took last week off because I was on a road trip, never
