Those of you from the South have most likely grown up eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day. Typically, they’re served with a “mess” of greens, such as collards, mustard or turnip greens, or even cabbage. Each region has its own tasty ritual. “Cook your beans low and slow, ideally in a slow cooker. For …
James Perloff is journalist who wrote for The New American magazine for nearly three decades. He’s the author of “The Shadows of Power,” an exposé of the Council on Foreign Relations, two books about the evidence against Darwin’s theory of evolution, “The Case Against Darwin” and “Tornado in a Junkyard,” and a comprehensive primer on …
Valerie Protopapas of New York is a prolific and unreconstructed defender of Southern history, the world authority on the great Confederate partisan John Singleton Mosby, and is former editor of The Southern Cavalry Review, the journal of The Stuart-Mosby Historical Society. In her compelling story-telling style, Protopapas offers up myth-busting facts on “The Gray Ghost,” …
In mid-September more than 100 people gathered in a beautiful small town in northeastern West Virginia for the 2nd Annual Trad Forum. Hosted by my pal and compatriot Michael Sisco, it was a “safe space” of like-minded folks from around the region and a few beyond that gathered to discuss “traditional wisdom for modern trials.” Above (clockwise …
By Grizz The American Chestnut was once the most important and valuable tree in eastern North America. Now, it is nearly extinct. This is the story of how an invasive species killed off this special tree and, in the process, helped exterminate self-sufficient agrarian life in Appalachia. The American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a hardwood …
Editor’s note: Historian Dr. Brion McClanahan once wrote, “To many Americans, a myth denotes a lie, a fairy tale that cannot be proven. But myths are the foundation of much of our historical consciousness.” This is precisely why reformers, re-educators, and renovationists want to destroy them. Therefore, I say, never forget. By Walt Garlington Southern …
“Southerners adhere to the basic tenets of orthodox Christian belief more than other Americans, even the general run of Catholics. Indeed, the South is the only Protestant society remaining in the world that is not post-Christian.” Historian Dr. Clyde Wilson wrote these words more than a decade ago. Much has changed since then … and …
Fr. Peter Heers has lived in Thessaloniki, Greece, with his wife and five homeschooled children since 2000, when he also launched the publishing house Uncut Mountain Press. The son of an Anglican priest who converted to the Church with most of his parish in 1991, Fr. Peter came to Orthodoxy in 1992. Fr. Peter has …
A native of East Tennessee, Earl Starbuck is an independent historian and a descendant of soldiers on both sides of The Late Unpleasantness and of Governor John Sevier. His father, who was a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, taught him to love history and the South. Starbuck holds a BA in History and …
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”— Virgil I spent a day in Atlanta last February when meeting up with friends en route to the Great Wolf Lodge about an hour south of the city. But where would be a good place to assemble our group of two mamas and six homeschooled …