Hill taught
British history at University of Alabama and at
Stillman College, a historically black college in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for 18 years until 1998. Building on the views of his mentors at the University of Alabama, he published two books on the
Celts, romanticizing the
"Celtic" soldier. In 1994, Hill co-founded the
League of the South, a pro-Southern secession organization, In 1995, Hill established a chapter of the League of the South on the campus of his alma mater, the University of Alabama. In an
Abbeville, South Carolina speech he asked the crowd "What would it take to get you to fight? … What would it take to turn you into a
William Wallace?" in reference to the central figure from the movie
Braveheart. His supporters also support and glamorize groups like the
IRA and the
Scottish National Party. The notion that the South is "Celtic" and the North is "English" has been dismissed by scholars on numerous grounds. and that in the 1980 census when people were asked what their ancestry or ethnicity was, a large majority of southerners self-identified as being of English ancestry. Hill tried to revive the
Southern Party in 2003. A decade later, in 2013, Hill promoted "
opposition to immigration and
same-sex marriage". ==Sines v. Kessler==