2010 Summer School

"The Greatness of Southern Literature"

• "We are What We Remember," and "The Old South and the Origins of a Real American Literature," Prof. Clyde Wilson
  
  
• "William Gilmore Simms' Place in American Literature," Prof. Sean Busick
  
  
• "Interwar Charleston Writers and the Southern Tradition," Alan Harrelson
  
  
• "Personal Recollections of Flannery O'Connor," Mary Barbara Tate
  
  
• "Faulkner as Southerner, Part 1," Prof. James Kibler
  
  
• "Faulkner as Southerner, Part 2," Prof. James Kibler
  
  
• "Faulkner as Southerner, Part 3," Prof. James Kibler
  
  
• "Walker Percy: Southern Gentleman in the New South," Prof. William Wilson
  
  
• "Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Sacramental Imagination," Prof. William Wilson
  
  
• "The Southern Agrarians: Some Personal Recollections," Dr. Tom Landess
  
  
• "Southern Scholarship vs. Neo-Conservatism: M. E. Bradford and the National Endowment for the Humanities," Dr. Tom Landess
  
  
• "Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page and the New South Movement," Prof. Jack Trotter
  
  
• Discussion of Faulkner's The Unvanquished featuring Prof. James Kibler, Prof. William Wilson and 2010 Abbeville Institute Students.

2009 Summer School

Selected Lectures

"The Meaning and Legacy of Reconstruction"

• “The Southern Political Tradition,” Prof. Carey Roberts
  
  
• “Reconstruction: An Overview, “ Prof. Clyde Wilson
  
  
• “Reconstruction as a Problem in Statesmanship,” Prof. Clyde Wilson
  
  
• “The Unwelcome Result: Determining the Number of Black Deaths due to War and Reconstruction,” Prof. Cary Roberts
  
  
• “Reconstruction in the Experience of the Southern People,” Prof. Clyde Wilson
  
  
• “The Economic Cost of Reconstruction,” Dr. John Devanny
  
  
• “The Human Cost of Reconstruction,” Dr. John Devanny
  
  
• “What was the ‘Construction’ in Reconstruction?” Eric Richardson
  
  
• “The Victor’s Definition of Race: How Radical Reconstruction Divided Southern Society Along the Color Line,” Eric Richardson
  
  
• “Better Than Slavery? Contraband Camps and Abuses at the Hands of Liberators,” Dr. Troy Kickler
  
  
• “Definitions of a Good American: The Northern Influence on the First Free Generation of African Americans,” Dr. Troy Kickler
  
  
• “More Baptist Than Black: A History of Black Baptists in Reconstruction,” Dr. Troy Kickler
  
  
• “William Gilmore Simms on Reconstruction,” Prof. David Aiken
  
  
• “Reconstruction’s Legacy in U.S. Occupation Policy After WW I & II,” Lt. Col. (Retired) Jonathan White
  
  
• “Constitutional Reconstruction: The Fourteenth Amendment and Its Legacy,” Prof. Donald Livingston
  
  
• “Constitutional Reconstruction: Texas vs. White, and Its Legacy “ Dr. John Emison
  
  
• “The Lost Cause Movement and the War Against Leviathan,” Prof. Jack Trotter

2008 Summer School

Selected Lectures

"Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric"

• "'Tiger's Meat': Abolitionism in Antebellum America, Part 1," Professor Clyde Wilson
  
  
• "Slavery and the Philadelphia Convention," Professor Carey Roberts
  
  
• "'Negro Presidents and Negro Congresses': Abolitionism, Federalism and the First Congress," Professor Carey Roberts
  
  
• "The Aims of Anti-Slavery in the Missouri Compromise," Dr. John Devanny
  
  
• "'Tiger's Meat': Abolitionism in Antebellum America, Part 2," Professor Clyde Wilson
  
  
• "Steady Habits vs. Chivalry: Sectional Antagonism Before Abolition," Professor Clyde Wilson
  
  
• "Anti-Slavery and Northern Racism," Professor Donald Livingston
  
  
• "Anti-Slavery, Secession and New England Cultural Imperialism," Professor Donald Livingston
  
  
• "Post 60's Neo-Abolitionist Historiography," Dr. John Devanny
  
  
• "What We Have to Expect. Harper's Ferry: Abolitionism, Extradition, and Secession," Lt. Col. (Retired) D. Jonathan White
  
  
• "William Gilmore Simms' Critique of Abolitionism," Prof. David Aiken
  
  
• "The Abolitionist as Perfectionist, Part 1," Professor Samuel Smith
  
  
• "The Abolitionist as Perfectionist, Part 2," Professor Samuel Smith
  
  
• "Questions and Answers, Part 1"
  
  
• "Questions and Answers, Part 2"

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2007 Summer School

Selected Lectures

"The Origin of Southern Identity and the Culture of the Old South"

• "The Origin of New England Sectional Nationalism," Dr. Donald Livingston, Emory University
  
  
• "New England Cultural Imperialism," Dr. Donald Livingston, Emory University
  
  
• "Poe's Battle With Puritan Boston," Dr. James Kibler, University of Georgia
  
  
• "W. G. Simms and the Celtic Base of Southern Culture," Dr. James Kibler, University of Georgia
  
  
• "Basil Gildersleeve's, 'The Creed of the Old South,'" Dr. William Wilson, University of Virginia
  
  
• "Basil Gildersleeve's 'A Southerner in the Peloponnesian War,'" Dr. William Wilson, University of Virginia
  
  
• "Society Before Government," Dr. Clyde Wilson, University of South Carolina, Emeritus
  
  
• "The South and The West," Dr. Clyde Wilson, University of South Carolina, Emeritus
  
  
• "Alice Huger Smith: The Moral and Spiritual Victory of the Defeated South," Dr. David Aiken, College of Charleston
  
  
• "Charles Fraser: Remembering Charleston's Ante-bellum Greatness," Dr. David Aiken, The College of Charleston

2006 Summer School

Selected Lectures

"The Southern Agrarian Tradition"

• "The Greek and Roman Agrarian Tradition," Dr. Thomas Fleming, The Rockford Institute
  
  
• "Agrarianism After Taylor ," Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
  
  
• "The Work of the Late M. E. Bradford,"Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
  
  
• "Andrew Lytle, The Last of the Nashville Agrarians, part 1," Dr. William Wilson, Professor of Religion, University of Virginia
  
  
• "Andrew Lytle, The Last of the Nashville Agrarians, part 2," Dr. William Wilson, Professor of Religion, University of Virginia
  
  
• "Political Barbecues of the Old South," Professor Sean Busick, History, Kentucky Wesleyan College
  
  
• "What Cements Society," Peter Jones, Emeritus Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  
  
• "The Agrarianism of Wendell Berry," Professor Tobias Lanz, Government & International Studies, University of South Carolina
  
  
• "Thomas Jefferson's State's Rights Agrarianism, part 1," Professor Marco Bassani, History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy
  
  
• "Thomas Jefferson's State's Rights Agrarianism, part 2," Professor Marco Bassani, History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy
  
  
• "John Taylor's Critique of Political and Economic Centralization, part 1," Joseph Stromberg, Historian
  
  
• "John Taylor's Critique of Political and Economic Centralization, part 2," Joseph Stromberg, Historian

2005 Summer School

Selected Lectures

"Re-Thinking Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Symbol, The Legacy"

• "The Morality and Legality of Lincoln Conquest of the South to Prevent Secession," Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
  
  
• "The Lincoln Fable," Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
  
  
• "Lincoln Myth and Civil Religion," Dr. William Wilson, Professor of Religion, University of Virginia
  
  
• "Lincoln Myth, Southern Saga," Dr. William Wilson, Professor of Religion, University of Virginia
  
  
• "Alternate Worlds: Northern Discussion of Multiple Confederacies During the 1861 Secession Winter," Dr. Scott Trask, Historian
  
  
• "The Reign of Terror: Republican Efforts to Suppress Northern Opposition to the War," Dr. Scott Trask, Historian
  
  
• "Lincoln on Race and Slavery," Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
  
  
• "Lincoln and the Republican Party,"Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
  
  
• "Lincoln and the Modern State: A European Perspective (Part 1)"Dr. Marco Bassani, Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy
  
  
• "Lincoln and the Modern State: A European Perspective (Part 2)" Dr. Marco Bassani, Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy
  
  
• "Was the Lincoln Administration Guilty of War Crimes?" Joseph Stromberg, Historian
  
  
• "Hegelian Justifications for the North's Conquest of the South," Joseph Stromberg, Historian
  
  
• "Lincoln and the Triumph of Mercantilism," Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo, Professor of Economics, Loyola University, Maryland
  
  
• "Lincoln's Second American Revolution," Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo, Professor of Economics, Loyola University, Maryland
  
  
• "The Political Uses of the Lincoln Legend," Dr. Thomas Dilorenzo, Professor of Economics, Loyola University, Maryland
  
  

"The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism: 1798-1861"

• "Centralization and Modern Barbarism" Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University.
  
  
• "The Glorious Revolution of 1688 & the Origin of Southern Constitutionalism" John Remington Graham, Author of Constitutional History of Secession (Pelican Press).
  
  
• "St. George Tucker's A View of the Constitution" Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor of History, University of South Carolina.
  
  
• "Southern Resistance to the European Conception of Sovereignty" Dr. Marco Bassani, Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy.
  
  
• "Is there a Federal Common Law? Jefferson, John Taylor, and Spencer Roane" Dr. Marco Bassani, Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy.
  
  
• "Calhoun and Southern Constitutionalism" Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor of History, University of South Carolina.
  
  
• "The Origins of the Jeffersonian Economic Program" Dr. John Devanny, Academic Dean, St. Joseph High School, Greenville, SC.
  
  
• "The Federalist Crucible and the Renascence of the Jeffersonian Program" Dr. John Devanny, Academic Dean, St. Joseph High School, Greenville, SC.
  
  
• "Forms of Nationalism in Early America" Dr. Carey Roberts, Professor of History, Arkansas Tech University.
  
  
• "The Religious Foundation of a Redeemer Nation" Dr. Carey Roberts, Professor of History, Arkansas Tech University.
  
  
• "Abel Upshur's Critique of Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States" Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University.
  
  
• "The Confederate Constitution of 1861, Part 1" Dr. Marshall DeRosa, Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University.
  
  
• "The Confederate Constitution of 1861, Part 2: A Juridical Reactionary Imperative," Dr. Marshall DeRosa, Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University.
  
  
• "The Confederate Constitution of 1861: Part 3" Dr. Marshall DeRosa, Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University.

2003 Summer School

"The American Decentralist Tradition"

• "Why Decentralization?" Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University.
  
  
• "What Secession Is," Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University.
  
  
• "The Secession of an American State," Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University.
  
  
• "The Fourteenth Amendment and Centralization," Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University.
  
  
• "The Anti-Federalists and the Ratification Debates," Dr. Marco Bassani, Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy.
  
  
• "The Principles of '98' and the Hartford Convention," Dr. Marco Bassani, Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy.
  
  
• "The Nullification Crisis," Dr. Marco Bassani, Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy.
  
  
• "The Confederate Constitution," Dr. Marshall DeRosa, Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University.
  
  
• "The Confederate Rule of Law," Dr. Marshall DeRosa, Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University.
  
  
• "The Principles of '76' and the New World Order," Dr. Marshall DeRosa, Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University.
  
  
• "The Declaration of Independence," Dr. Ross Lence, Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.
  
  
• "The Federalists and the Philadelphia Convention," Dr. Ross Lence, Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.
  
  
• "Were the Articles of Confederation a Failure?" Dr. Carey Roberts, Professor of History, Arkansas Tech University.
  
  
• "Why Were the Articles Dissolved?" Dr. Carey Roberts, Professor of History, Arkansas Tech University.
  
  
• "Celebrating Diversity," (performance on classical guitar and lecture on music and centralization) Dr. Thomas Sheeley, Professor of Music, University of Northern Arizona.
  
  
• "Amongst them Philistines," (performance on classical guitar and lecture on music and centralization) Dr. Thomas Sheeley, Professor of Music, University of Northern Arizona.
  
  
• "Doodling Yankees: Postmodern Thought," (performance on classical guitar and lecture on music and centralization) Dr. Thomas Sheeley, Professor of Music, University of Northern Arizona.
  
  

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