In May of 2008, I became embroiled in a situation that had developed with the former Museum of the Confederacy. Having received an e-mail sent to the membership from Director…
A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard;…
“Acts of congress, to be binding, must be made pursuant to the constitution; otherwise they are not laws, but a mere nullity.” -St. George Tucker “There is no danger I…
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 15-19, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Political Correctness, Southern literature, Southern music, Civil War, Southern Politics
Sometime back in the early sixties—climaxed in 1964 with Barry Goldwater’s efforts—the South with its conservative measure, almost En Masse wanted (and needed) a place to go other than the…
Coming out of the American Revolution, the nation faced a slave problem that most today could scarcely imagine and that was unemployment. The Slave labor force had grown from reproduction…
The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack and destruction of Columbia, South Carolina. On February 17, 1865, the city surrendered to the…
If these were normal times, we’d all be unpacking our Mardi Gras gear right about now. Purple, yellow, and green would be everywhere, and I would be writing about how…
I hope Grandfather fed them wellFrom out his meager store of cornOr fodder pulled by Mother‘Neath a blazing autumn sun–So hot sometimes she saidThat she and sister sickenedTo the vomit…
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Feb 8-12, 2021 Topics: Southern Politics, Southern Tradition, United States Constitution, John C. Calhoun, Southern Music, Southern Literature
On a late November evening in 1970, I rolled into the “Big Easy” on an L&N freight with my pockets jingling. Hitching a ride to Canal Street – and letting…
“A fig for the Constitution” if it does not protect our most basic rights was John Randolph’s nineteenth century estimation of the value of the Constitution. In 2021 his words…
As one pastor in his sixties mentioned recently, “I would have thought VMI [Virginia Military Institute] to be one of the last bastions,” meaning, of course, among those institutions most…
The Washington establishment, led by a senile 78-year-old man who can barely speak in complete sentences and seems permanently fighting mad, is hell- bent on labeling virtually all Americans who…
What would you give in exchange for your soul? Bluegrass greats Bill Monroe and Doc Watson asked that question in one of their most memorable live recordings. It’s also the…
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Feb 1-5, 2021 Topics: Southern Tradition, Southern Culture, Southern History
I am not from where I live, yet I have a deep fear that where I live won’t be where I live for very much longer. The god of progress…
Southern conservatism is considered an enigma when juxtaposed against the bipartisan political configuration having been imposed upon us since the beginning of the American experiment. The candor of its echoed…
The year 2020 was brutal for the friends of the South. Monuments and statues of Southerners, not just Confederates, disappeared from the urban areas of the Southand beyond. The lockdowns…
(Mrs. Holley was the third generation of a Southern family in California. She wrote this on being able to return permanently to the South.) The cotton fields grow row after…
A review of President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler (LSU Press, 2020) by Christopher Leahy “His Accidency.” That’s the nickname given to John Tyler, earned, as it…
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