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Friends,
Some six years ago my friend and distinguished
historian of the South, Dr. Clyde Wilson, with assistance from author Paul C.
Graham and Dr. Wilson’s daughter, Anne Wilson Smith, began the Shotwell Publishing Company in Columbia, South Carolina. Since then Shotwell has published
some important and unique volumes about Southern history, politics, and
literature, over sixty-six titles, including some works that have become
classics in short order.
There is a phrase that I used to hear from one of
my former professors. I think it came originally from a dissident historian:
“breaking the historical blackout.” That’s what Shotwell Publishing, in its own
small way, is doing…and achieving.
Just recently Shotwell issued a summary of its
2021 round-up of new titles. And once again every inquisitive
Southerner—indeed, every inquiring American—interested in preserving (and
becoming better informed about) our birthright and the traditions inherited
from our ancestors should have these books. They inoculate us against the fetid
dross that threatens to destroy what is left of the Southland and devour what
is left of our old constitutional republic. In the battle of ideas, they are
like mini-arsenals which act to provide correctives to the fallacious history and the
cultural and social rot spewed out regularly, each day it seems with greater
intensity, by our establishment media (including most so-called “conservative
media”), by all levels of our defecated educational system, and by our
increasingly authoritarian government.
Only through “breaking the historical blackout,”
only by arming ourselves with the insights of such intelligent, well-documented
and presented works can we hope to stem the onrushing, seemingly unstoppable
tide which seeks not only the destruction of our history and culture, but its
erasure from memory.
Our obligation, before God and our ancestors, is
severe: each in his own station in life, on whatever level he finds himself,
must follow the Apostolic injunction recounted by St. Matthew in the Parable of
the Talents. Each of us has a talent, even if apparently it may seem insignificant. Our solemn duty then is to utilize that talent to its fullest.
Shotwell Publishing, with its multitude of fine
titles, offers us inestimable support in achieving that goal…and sustaining a
veritable counter-revolution against the Powers of Darkness which seek to
overwhelm and, finally, extinguish us.
Here, then, are the four most recent titles published by Shotwell,
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What Really Happened? Quantrill’s
Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
Revisiting The Evidence
By James C. Edwards
SHOTWELL PUBLISHING IS
PLEASED TO PRESENT an entirely new study of a significant event in the
War Between the States: Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas.
Lincoln’s war of invasion and conquest of the Southern people is almost
always told in a way that supports the victor’s claim of righteousness.
That has certainly been true in regard to the raid of Quantrill’s Confederate
guerillas on Lawrence, Kansas.
Edwards
has for the first time, based on exhaustive examination of the sources,
tells the history fully and objectively. Civil War enthusiasts can learn
clearly for the first time why the raid happened and how it was carried
out. The author’s history treats both sides with truth-telling and, among
other discoveries, exposes the flaws in the Union’s righteousness in the
border war of Kansas/Missouri.
It
took some doing, but we finally got this one done and it is magnificent!
This is the kind of quality research you get when you go to the primary
source documents, apparently something no longer done in the academy
(unless, of course, it serves a political purpose). Alas!
What Really Happened? Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence,
Kansas is now available in a paperback and
eBook edition. The paperback is currently available on Amazon, but
should fan out to other retail outlets in the coming
weeks. The link to the paperback and Kindle edition is HERE. You can also buy the eBook on our
web site (Kindle, epub, & PDF formats included) by mashing
(“clicking”) HERE.
If you liked the movie “Ride with the Devil” or the tales
of Frank & Jessie James and the Confederate Guerrillas, this book on
Quantrill’s Raid is right up your alley!
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Next, by James Ronald Kennedy, one-half of the Southern writing legends, the Kennedy Twins:
Nullifying Federal and State Gun Control
A How-To Guide for Gun Owners
AMERICA’S NEO-MARXISTS WHO CONTROL the political and social establishment
understand that well-armed Americans will not tolerate their leftist
tyranny. They understand that before they can force average Americans to
accept their perverted social and political vision, they must first
disarm us!
America’s Founding Fathers understood the value of arms in the hands of
free men. They knew that the first step a tyrant must take to turn free
men into political slaves is to disarm them. They secured the right to
keep and bear arms by enacting the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment
was not enacted to allow country boys to go squirrel hunting! It was
enacted to allow free men to defend themselves against tyrants.
Unfortunately, too many gun-rights activists do not understand that no
part of the Constitution, including the Second Amendment, is
self-enforcing. Without a strong political mechanism to enforce the
limitations on federal powers inscribed in the Constitution, the
Constitution becomes a mere paper barricade.
Nullifying
Federal and State Gun Control: A How-To Guide for Gun Owners provides
gun-rights advocates with a means to protect their rights under the
Constitution. This book demonstrates the only way “We the people” can
enforce our rights and liberties under the Constitution.
If you
are concerned about gun rights in America and the seeming total disregard
for the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by the combination of
conspirators at Washington, DC, this book is a MUST HAVE!
Nullifying Federal and State Gun Control is
also available in a paperback and eBook edition. The paperback is currently
available on Amazon. Other retail outlets can be found HERE as they become available. You
can find the paperback and Kindle edition HERE. You can also buy the eBook on our
web site (Kindle, epub, & PDF formats included) by mashing HERE.
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Then there
is a book we wished we could have gotten out last month so there would be
a little more time to pick up a copy before Thanksgiving, but we didn’t
(although you could still pull it off if you act quickly). This
one, as they say, is for the kids…
The REAL First Thanksgiving
Written and Illustrated by Charles H. Hayes
Description: IN THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES Southerners made the
history while New England Yankees wrote the history and took credit for
everything, including Thanksgiving.
In The REAL First Thanksgiving by author
and illustrator Charles Hayes, a young lad named Jeffery finds out the
truth about the first Thanksgiving when a magical, swashbuckling mouse
named Horatio Algernon takes him on an enchanting (and educational)
journey through space and time—not to Massachusetts in 1620 with the
“Pilgrim Fathers” as Jeffery had expected, but to Virginia in 1607!
Grab a seat, gather the young ones
around you, and set out on your own literary adventure as you discover
with Jeffery and Horatio the true story of the first Thanksgiving.
You’ll want to keep this one for your children and grandchildren!
The gang here at Shotwell found this little book to be imaginative,
educational, and just plain fun. We think you will too!
It is only available in paperback. It is currently available on Amazon and should begin widening
its distribution reach if it has not already. Check HERE for the latest.
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Finally,
When the Yankees Come
Former Carolina Slaves Remember Sherman’s March FROM the Sea
Edited and introduced by Paul C. Graham
This book expands and replaces Graham’s previous version of When
the Yankees Come and includes selections from both the
North Carolina and South Carolina WPA Slave Narratives.
MANY AMERICANS BELIEVE that the coming of the blue soldiers of the North,
emissaries of emancipation, was a joyful event for African Americans.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
How do we know this? Because we have their recorded accounts.
Ending slavery, contrary to self-congratulatory American myth, was not a
righteous crusade. It was a byproduct of a brutal war of conquest and
invasion—a total war against civilians in which black Southerners
suffered as much if not more than whites. The devastation of the people’s
resources in large areas of the South left African Americans as well as
Southern whites suffering and sometimes starving.
For many, it was an experience of fear, disruption of life, and cruel
uncertainty about their future, to which the liberators had given no
thought.
The material gathered by Paul C. Graham makes this clear. Of late,
Americans have had a taste for history by theory: the War Between the
States was “about” slavery. A better understanding comes from seeing what
the people who were there have to say about it. Such an approach to
history as human experience can be both informative and enlightening.
The editor originally thought there would be enough material to do
separate volumes for North Carolina and possibly Georgia, but this was
not the case. Thus, the book incorporates the North Carolina narratives
for commentary on the “Carolina Campaign” of Sherman and company as they
marched from the sea, that is, out of Savannah,
Georgia through South Carolina and into North Carolina.
When the Yankees Come is
now available in a paperback and eBook edition. The paperback is
currently available on Amazon, but should start appearing at other online retail outlets as
their catalogues update. The link to the paperback and Kindle edition
is HERE. You can also buy the eBook on our
web site (Kindle, epub, & PDF formats included) by mashing HERE.
If you did not get the first edition, you’ll certainly want to get the
“new and improved” edition. Maybe it would be a nice edition even if you
do have Graham’s first attempt. It was one of our first handful of
publications and we have improved quite a bit in design and formatting
skills since then.
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Lastly,
we’d like to thank those of you who donated to our special project fund.
With your help we were able to get Walter Brian Cisco’s War Crimes Against Southern Civilians
in audiobook format—available at Amazon, Audible, and iTunes...
We are currently considering other titles that can and should be
recorded. If you have a suggestion, E-mail Paul Graham at paul@shotwellpublishing.com and
tell him what you’d like to see done next.
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Here (below) are some other recent titles
put out by Shotwell Publishing. All of them are very worthy of your
consideration.
But if I were to highlight just one from
this list, it would be Anne Wilson Smith’s in-depth investigative study
of the notorious events which occurred in Charlottesville back in August 2017, Charlottesville Untold. The media
and our political class, both Democrats AND prominent Republicans, have
condemned what happened there as an “extremist right wing riot by Nazis,
Klansmen, and white nationalists.” Recall that President Trump was
harshly criticized not just by the usual leftist media/political types,
but also by apparatchiks of the so-called “conservative establishment”
(what Dr. Paul Gottfried terms “Con Inc”), such as Ben Shapiro, for
meekly suggesting that there were “good people” on both sides. Anne Smith
Wilson offers the first genuinely objective appraisal of what occurred in
Mr. Jefferson’s city.
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