July Top Ten

The Top Ten for July 2016. Read ’em again.

1. The Free State of Jones: History or Hollywood? by Ryan Walters

2. Understanding the Battle Hymn of the Republic by Howard Ray White

3. Why Vicksburg Canceled the Fourth of July – For a Generation by Karen Stokes

4. Rethinking the Declaration of Independence by Brion McClanahan

5. Nathan Bedford Forrest by Andrew Nelson Lytle

6. Transcendentalism: The New England Heresy by Otto Scott

7. Musings of a Southern Antifederalist on the Presidential Election by John Devanny

8. Southern Baptists and the Flag by Robert M. Peters

9. A Book for a Southerner’s Bookshelf by Gail Jarvis

10. American Counter-Revolution by Clyde Wilson

Brion McClanahan

Brion McClanahan is the author or co-author of six books, How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America (Regnery History, 2017), 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her (Regnery History, 2016), The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, (Regnery, 2009), The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution (Regnery History, 2012), Forgotten Conservatives in American History (Pelican, 2012), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes, (Regnery, 2012). He received a B.A. in History from Salisbury University in 1997 and an M.A. in History from the University of South Carolina in 1999. He finished his Ph.D. in History at the University of South Carolina in 2006, and had the privilege of being Clyde Wilson’s last doctoral student. He lives in Alabama with his wife and three daughters.