America “…the South was essential to the development of global capitalism, and the rest of the country…was deeply implicated in Southern slavery” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2016 …the South was essential to the development of global capitalism, and the rest of...
America “The 1803 Louisiana Purchase…set off the dynamic that led to the Civil War” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 December 2015 The 1803 Louisiana Purchase—by which the U.S. acquired more slaveholding territory in the name...
America, Politics in America “…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2015 After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
America, Races in America “Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the country, you might still, if you look hard enough, detect tendrils of Southern influence that extend past the Mason-Dixon Line” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 November 2015 Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the...
America, Politics in America “The civil-rights revolution, too, can be thought of as a bargain, not simply a victory: the nation has become Southernized just as much as the South has become nationalized” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 November 2015 The South was the country’s aberrant region—wayward, backward, benighted—but it was at last going...