# southern history (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover southern history. Page: Feed: --- ## [Whose Portrait on Your Wall?](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/whose-portrait-on-your-wall/) _2026-08-27 · Matthew Conard · Abbeville Institute_ I’m wearing a shirt with Francis Marion displayed proudly on the back. I have portraits of our region and nation’s folklore and heroes hanging on my walls. I have lapel pins of the same. Other shirts have their quotes on them. Without a concerted effort in doing so, I accumulated images and the words of our region’s mythos. I do... ## [How the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Uses Copaganda to Stifle Public Dissent](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/how-the-jacksonville-sheriffs-office-uses-copaganda-to-stifle-public-dissent/) _2026-08-26 · Jalicia Lewis · Scalawag_ Over the last two years, JSO has found a new media platform to promote its messaging enforcement: social media. Since 2025, JSO has begun partnering with content creators to showcase the behind-the-scenes operations of JSO and in-depth interviews with the city’s sheriff. Read more via Scalawag : How the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Uses Copaganda to Stifle Public Dissent . ## [Empire of Censorship](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/empire-of-censorship/) _2026-08-26 · Monsour Owolabi · Scalawag_ More than an attack on individual freedom of expression, prison censorship in the 21st century takes aim at Our collective ability to organize and collectively resist the violence of the prison system that dehumanizes Us on the basis of a distinct form of class and national oppression. Read more via Scalawag : Empire of Censorship . ## [Poplar Forest: Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Play-toy](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/poplar-forest-thomas-jeffersons-architectural-play-toy/) _2026-08-26 · M. Andrew Holowchak · Abbeville Institute_ Granddaughter Ellen Randolph Coolidge writes to early biographer Henry S. Randall in 1856, in the latter’s The Life of Thomas Jefferson, of Poplar Forest: The house at Poplar Forest was very pretty and pleasant. It was of brick, one story in front, and, owing to the falling of the ground, two in the rear. It was an exact octagon, with... ## [Abandon All Connection, Ye Who Enter Here: Digitized Prison Mail as Repression and Surveillance](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/abandon-all-connection-ye-who-enter-here-digitized-prison-mail-as-repression-and-surveillance/) _2026-08-25 · Casper Cendre · Scalawag_ They phased out all physical mail, newsletters, and books from being able to enter the prison system. If you think things are getting a little too Orwellian for your taste in society at-large, prisons are the testing ground. Read more via Scalawag : Abandon All Connection, Ye Who Enter Here: Digitized Prison Mail as Repression and Surveillance . ## [Censorship Beyond Book Bans in Prison: A Slave Master Mentality](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/censorship-beyond-book-bans-in-prison-a-slave-master-mentality/) _2026-08-25 · Michael Kimble · Scalawag_ Prison censorship is about more than book bans. It is about surveillance, policing, and the attempt to control our very thoughts, perceptions, and actions—on the inside and the outside! Read more via Scalawag : Censorship Beyond Book Bans in Prison: A Slave Master Mentality . ## ["Notification of Unauthorized Mail": Comics by Juan Hernandez](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/notification-of-unauthorized-mail-comics-by-juan-hernandez/) _2026-08-25 · Juan Hernandez · Scalawag_ It looks like censorship within these walls will never end, but neither will my resolve to combat it. Censorship is their weapon, and mine is my art. Read more via Scalawag : "Notification of Unauthorized Mail": Comics by Juan Hernandez . ## [Jefferson Davis As Master of Brierfield](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/jefferson-davis-as-master-of-brierfield/) _2026-08-25 · Ryan Walters · Abbeville Institute_ Some months ago, I was busy defending Jefferson Davis on X, which we all know is filled with the most knowledgeable historians the country has to offer, when one extremist proceeded to tell me that Davis raped and lynched blacks. When asked for evidence of such rubbish, I was truly shocked and astounded that he could provide none. Sarcasm aside,... ## [OWL Sees All](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/owl-sees-all/) _2026-08-24 · Lucas Zane · Scalawag_ Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) powered up its new Overwatch & Logistics (OWL) program in June 2026 without fanfare because GDC likes secrets. Assistant Director of Facilities, Ahmed Holt, briefed the Board of Corrections members April 2, 2026, that in June, the OWL system would begin to monitor every GDC living unit, walkway, and hallway. Read more via Scalawag : OWL Sees All . ## [Dating Apps: Data Collection and Capitalizing on Connection](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/dating-apps-data-collection-and-capitalizing-on-connection/) _2026-08-24 · Sumona Gupta · Scalawag_ Now with facial scans and potential ID checks, this dataset could become even more powerful, not only in consumer sales, but also to a larger cash cow: governments bent on monitoring their populations. This could explain Match Group’s ties to Palantir. Read more via Scalawag : Dating Apps: Data Collection and Capitalizing on Connection . ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4Rv3dGaHOFZK) _2026-08-24 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [Sacred Steel and Southern Rock](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/sacred-steel-and-southern-rock/) _2026-08-24 · Tom Daniel · Abbeville Institute_ I came to Sacred Steel late, and I came to it by accident. I’d been going back through my list of American musical traditions that are actually Southern, checking for anything I’d left out, and Sacred Steel was one of the names that turned up as a gap. I didn’t know the tradition at all going in, so I did... ## [They Myth of the Righteous Cause](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/they-myth-of-the-righteous-cause/) _2026-08-21 · H.V. Traywick, Jr. · Abbeville Institute_ History is the propaganda of the victorious. – Voltaire The ubiquitous claim that the so-called “Civil War” (which it was not), was “about” slavery (which it was not), and the “righteous” North went to war against the “traitorous” South to free the slaves (which it did not) is the most bald-faced lie of American history, and, as Thomas Carlyle stated... ## [Carpetbaggers Seeks to Help Mississippi Deal with the Past](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/carpetbaggers-seeks-to-help-mississippi-deal-with-the-past/) _2026-08-20 · Ryan Walters · Abbeville Institute_ “A meddling Yankee is God’s worst creation; he cannot run his own affairs correctly, but is constantly interfering in the affairs of others, and he is always ready to repent of everyone’s sins, but his own.”\[1\] So opined a North Carolina newspaper in 1854, a quote also attributed to Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill. And yet, 172 years later, Southerners... ## [In Search of the Pearl River](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/in-search-of-the-pearl-river/) _2026-08-19 · Alex Melnick · Scalawag_ The Pearl River is an integral part of Jackson’s water infrastructure, Louisiana and Mississippi’s wetlands, and the economies of countless cities along its banks—but you wouldn’t know it from talking to our city’s residents. Read more via Scalawag : In Search of the Pearl River . ## [Stop with the Drive By History](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/stop-with-the-drive-by-history/) _2026-08-19 · Mindy Esposito · Abbeville Institute_ Originally published at Ms. Esposito’s Substack. At best, you were not told the whole story. At worst, you were deliberately lied to. Either way, you have it wrong. Nashville, Tennessee For more than a century and a half, Americans have been trained to repeat one sentence. One slogan. One simplified conclusion. “The war was only about slavery.” Say it enough... ## [Dixie in Decay](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/dixie-in-decay/) _2026-08-18 · Elias Ryan · Abbeville Institute_ The following is an abridged summary of the first three chapters of Dixie in Decay (and How to Heal Her) by Elias John Ryan Dixie is in decay. Our tradition of self governance is being flattened by an overreaching federal government. A once vibrant culture is being overridden by technology and mass immigration. Our economy is being corrupted by crony... ## [Poems for Black August](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/poems-for-black-august/) _2026-08-17 · Nova Oshun Shakur · Scalawag_ They won’t give you ear plugs for the disabling and deafening screams of the human test subject, dissected in fascist laboratories. Read more via Scalawag : Poems for Black August . ## [B.F. White and the Sacred Harp](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/b-f-white-and-the-sacred-harp/) _2026-08-17 · Tom Daniel · Abbeville Institute_ History tends to remember songs, and is considerably less interested in the people who made sure there was somewhere to sing them. Benjamin Franklin White is one of those people. Born in Union County, South Carolina, in 1800, he spent the better part of his adult life in Hamilton, Georgia, where he taught singing schools, compiled tunebooks, presided over conventions,... ## [Yankee Way of War](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/yankee-way-of-war/) _2026-08-14 · Jason Morgan · Abbeville Institute_ About this time every year, cruise ship historians like to trot out articles justifying the mass slaughter of innocents in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America had no choice but to drop the atom bombs, the basic argument goes. Mainstream media coverage in Japan tends to leave the subject, “America,” out altogether. It was war in the abstract that is to blame,... ## [If Jefferson’s Paternity of Sally’s Kids Is So Very Well Supported by Evidence, Why Won’t the Pro-Paternity People Debate the Issue?](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/if-jeffersons-paternity-of-sallys-kids-is-so-very-well-supported-by-evidence-why-wont-the-pro-paternity-people-debate-the-issue/) _2026-08-13 · M. Andrew Holowchak · Abbeville Institute_ Some two months ago, I asked historian Courtney Crowley, who has become a member of our team at “Thomas Jefferson Lives” (aka, The Real Thomas Jefferson), if she could email four persons in the “Onufian Family”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Andrew Burstein, Kevin Gutzman, and of course “dude” himself, Peter Onuf—and ask whether any would participate in a debate on Jefferson’s avowed paternity.... ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qsz3cXPFLk2Q) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [A Generational Love Letter to Western Hills Mall](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/a-generational-love-letter-to-western-hills-mall/) _2026-08-12 · NaBeela Washington · Scalawag_ Despite the promises made, renovations announced, and significant economic impact predicted, the Western Hills Mall project has offered nothing more than silence, abandonment, and a community left to figure out what comes next without a say in the matter. Read more via Scalawag : A Generational Love Letter to Western Hills Mall . ## [Transplant Wars: From Bankhead to "Upper Westside"](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/transplant-wars-from-bankhead-to-upper-westside/) _2026-08-12 · Tyra Douyon · Scalawag_ Over time, Bankhead’s reputation as underdeveloped and unsafe became about the people who lived there and the conditions they were left to navigate. Read more via Scalawag : Transplant Wars: From Bankhead to "Upper Westside" . ## [Inheriting Gold](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/inheriting-gold/) _2026-08-12 · Harvey Lee Nix · Abbeville Institute_ Many years ago, I asked myself, “Who am I” then “what do I know about myself?” That turned into exploration about “who I am,” which in turn, evolved into “where do I come from” and finally “who did I come from?” I think today people are caught up so much on the first question, that the development of the idea... ## [We Cannot Abandon Cuba](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/we-cannot-abandon-cuba/) _2026-08-11 · Angel Marie · Scalawag_ Whereas imperialist propaganda dehumanizes entire people by reducing them to the worst (and often exaggerated) aspects of their government, Cubans are able to distinguish the contradictions between the U.S. empire and the people domestically subjected to its repression. Read more via Scalawag : We Cannot Abandon Cuba . ## [Moses Waddel: The Teacher of the South](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/moses-waddel-the-teacher-of-the-south/) _2026-08-11 · Walt Garlington · Abbeville Institute_ If anyone in Dixie is worthy of the title ‘Teacher of the South’, it is Reverend Moses Waddel. A summary of the major Southern figures who attended the academy he established at Willington, South Carolina, as students would be convincing enough: ‘Among the names are William H. Crawford, a pupil in the Appling school and an assistant at Willington; John... ## [Jefferson Davis as President](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/jefferson-davis-as-president/) _2026-08-10 · Ryan Walters · Abbeville Institute_ If we could travel back to the summer of 1860, a time when the two political parties were busy lining up acceptable candidates, preparing for national conventions to nominate someone for President, and trying to hold their fragile components together, little did people know the political chaos that was about to unfold throughout the year, and little did they know... ## [What if South Carolina Really Seceded to Protect Slavery?](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/what-if-south-carolina-really-seceded-to-protect-slavery/) _2026-08-07 · Abbeville Institute · Abbeville Institute_ From the Jefferson Davis X Account. (Let’s Play Devil’s Advocate and Watch the Whole Argument Collapse Anyway) Look, I’ll bite. Let’s pretend—just for the sheer entertainment value—that South Carolina’s secession in December 1860 was nothing but a cold-blooded plot to safeguard the institution of slavery. No states’-rights talk. No tariff gripes. No constitutional compact theory. Just pure,… ## [Defrost the Home Depot](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/defrost-the-home-depot/) _2026-08-05 · Adjoa D. Danso · Scalawag_ The DTHD coalition is putting pressure on Home Depot to: denounce ICE activity in its stores and parking lots; express support for customers, workers, and day laborers; and create policies to keep ICE agents from conducting raids or entering stores without warrants. Read more via Scalawag : Defrost the Home Depot . ## [The Assassinated Word: Kanafani at 54](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/08/the-assassinated-word-kanafani-at-54/) _2026-08-05 · Ali Ridha Khan · Scalawag_ The same logic that bombed a novelist's car in 1972 is now embedded in today’s content moderation policies, platform architecture, large language model training data, and the deliberate severing of a fibre-optic cable. Read more via Scalawag : The Assassinated Word: Kanafani at 54 . ## [Pedagogy of the Southern Worker](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/07/pedagogy-of-the-southern-worker/) _2026-07-30 · Inez O’Donnell and Lindsey Krenzler-Ferreira · Scalawag_ The Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is an organization of workers in the low-wage, high-turnover service industry of the U.S. South, with members in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia. From the beginning, the union has placed political education at the center of its strategic vision. USSW understands that to transform workplaces and \[…\] Read more via Scalawag : Pedagogy… ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6AUe9bvX5BGn) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [From heartache to hope and back again, Jahnah Camille grows](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/07/from-heartache-to-hope-and-back-again-jahnah-camille-grows/) _2026-07-29 · Aja Arnold · Scalawag_ Camille’s rising star and continued growth is an example of what music people like myself deeply appreciate, especially right now. There’s a great satisfaction in following someone’s journey and witnessing an artist’s craft organically blossom. Read more via Scalawag : From heartache to hope and back again, Jahnah Camille grows . ## [Postscript: Abram Colby Unearthed](https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/07/postscript-abram-colby-unearthed/) _2026-07-28 · Greer Brigham · Scalawag_ Last year, Scalawag published a biography of Abram Colby (1820-1872), one of Georgia’s first Black legislators, whose story had been erased in the community he once served. This April, that same community erected a permanent marker honoring him outside of the county courthouse. Read more via Scalawag : Postscript: Abram Colby Unearthed .