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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