Posts by Alfred Brophy

Phi Beta Kappa Addresses during the pre-Civil War in Union College. Union College is in Schenectady, New York. A number of them were religious figures and those were conservative.  Yet,…

Monuments, monuments, and monuments...

John O'Sullivan, editor of Democratic Review, coined manifest destiny: "in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our…

I did not realize that President Biden was touring Charleston, South Carolina during his last day in office. Biden Addresses Crowd at International African American Museum in Charleston, Post and…

Here's that is unusual: the Glamour magazine and an article on the United Daughters Confederacy.  It is here.  I think that UDC is an innocuous institution; the biggest hat-making becomes…

David Lynch has died. Blue Velvet is a weird movie.

I have a fan of Stephanie Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.  (I have blogged about three years ago.)  And I want…

Harvard University was much Transcendentalism in Phi Beta Kappa addresses and Yale University was much anti-Transcendentalism very often, at least conservatism or conservatism religion in antebellum Phi Beta Kappa addresses.…

On occasion, I talk about Gone with the Wind. Two points -- I didn't realize Scarlet O'Hara was going to Fayetteville Female Academy. (Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 4.  The…