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March 2026

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Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists

Thomas Jefferson, it is commonly known, was a staunch advocate of religious freedom. He argues for that in detailed notes on religion, his critical comments on the religions of Virginia in Query XVII of Notes on the State of Virginia, and in his Bill for Religious Freedom, drafted in 1776 and passed years later while he was in Paris, inter…
M. Andrew Holowchak
March 31, 2026
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Moses Ezekiel Returns Home

Military pomp and Masonic ceremonies combined to make noteworthy the internment of the late Sir Moses Ezekiel in Arlington National Cemetery on March 30, 1921.   The American sculptor, musician and soldier, died in Rome, Italy, in 1917 but the homecoming was deferred on account of World War 1. Permission was granted by Secretary of War Baker to bury Ezekiel’s mortal…
Lola Sanchez
March 30, 2026
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The Hidden Players in the War for Southern Independence

The War Between the States conjures images of Union blue and Confederate gray clashing across rolling farmland and forested ridges. Yet beyond those storied battlefields, another war unfolded in the marble halls and counting houses of Europe. There, empires maneuvered in the shadows, weighing whether to shatter the American experiment forever or stand aside and watch it consume itself. No…
Jose Nino
March 27, 2026
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The Contemporary Southern Blues of Jontavious Willis

Are the Blues dead? Are the Blues an exhibit in the mythical Southern Museum of the Past, or are the Blues still a living, breathing creation? A relatively new Southern artist named Jontavious Willis offers a clear answer to that question. He didn’t come up playing through some sort of nostalgia circuit. He learned the Blues the old way—by doing…
Tom Daniel
March 26, 2026
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WIRED’s Hit Piece on Secession Left Out Everything That Matters

Originally published at TexianPartisan.com. This morning, WIRED published “Don’t Listen to Anyone Who Thinks Secession Will Solve Anything” by Ryan D. Griffiths, a political science professor at Syracuse University hawking his new book The Disunited States. The article is a greatest-hits compilation of every lazy argument against self-determination — the Russia smear, the India/Pakistan analogy, the Texas v. White citation,…
Daniel Miller
March 25, 2026
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American History in Full

Early on one frosty morning in February I found myself driving down a country road in east central North Carolina, looking for the other half of American history. It had rained the night before and snowed hard a few days before that. As I pulled into a gravel parking lot the trees all around stood out sharp against the clear,…
Jason Morgan
March 24, 2026
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Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History

Originally published at Mises.org Ever since people began warning about the threat from Cultural Marxism, the Marxists’ main line of defense has been to deny everything. They claim that their critics are hallucinating and fighting with shadows. The Marxists in control of universities insist that academic freedom is alive and well. No one has been excluded from the academy for…
Wanjiru Njoya
March 23, 2026
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The Era of Good Feelings–1920-1970

Originally published at Reckonin.com My synopsis of the history of the Southern people will henceforward be speculative. We may not have sufficient perspective now on the more recent past. There may be important undercurrents that are not noticed yet. I have called the half century after World War I an era of good feelings because, despite “Civil Rights” and other…
Clyde Wilson
March 20, 2026
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I Guess I Didn’t Win the Lincoln Prize

Every year, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History awards its Lincoln Prize. They’ll give you $50,000.00 if you write the book that, in their opinion, improves our understanding of Abraham Lincoln and his times more than any other book published that year. Well, I can’t think of anything that could clarify our understanding of Abraham Lincoln and his times…
Kevin Orlin Johnson
March 19, 2026
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The Heroic Fr. Mullon

Originally published at MostCertainlyBeane. I’ve lived in the New Orleans area now for 21 years, and I have been to many of the area’s beautiful churches. But I had not been to historic St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church on Camp Street until yesterday. It is the congregation (and burial place) of a personal hero: the Rev. Fr. James Ignatius Mullon…
Rev. Larry Beane
March 18, 2026
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From Ulster to Appalachia

Every March, America goes nuts about green, and becomes briefly and theatrically Irish. Rivers turn green. Beer turns greener. Bagpipes appear in places that have not known sheep in living memory. Plastic bowler hats appear, and suddenly everybody sounds like a Frosted Lucky Charms commercial. An impressive number of folks discover that their great-great-great-grandmother’s second cousin once spelled her name…
Tom Daniel
March 17, 2026
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The Declaration: Timely and Timeless

Contents and Preface to my forthcoming book: I shall be speaking on this “timely” book at the Abbeville conference in March. Hope to see you there! If you would like to order an autographed copy of this book, which will not be out before the conference, you can contact me at [email protected]  The thesis of this book, Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration…
M. Andrew Holowchak
March 16, 2026
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Victory

The regime occupying Washington, D. C., having launched its latest war of conquest, where may a Southerner look for consolation in a world gone insane?  The Psalmist answers: ‘From whence shall my help come? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth’ (Psalm 121:1, 2). So has it often been in the South, that our people seek…
Walt Garlington
March 13, 2026
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The Case for Christian Localism

Originally published at From the Desk of Jon Harris. The reason for favoring the proximate, or local, over the national and international stems from the nature of society itself. Robert Lewis Dabney said that “Government is not the creator but the creature of human society.”1 Instead, society preexists government, and communities make up society. It is on the community level…
Jonathan Harris
March 12, 2026
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The Carried Song

If I were a Yankee, I could likely make an outrageous claim and expect it to be believed on the strength of its articulation alone. Yankees, of course, possess the advantage of literacy, and literacy, in modern cultural shorthand, is synonymous with intelligence. As a Southerner, I don’t enjoy that rhetorical luxury. Everything I say must be prefaced, situated, and…
Tom Daniel
March 11, 2026
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Confederate Sister Spies

The story of Maria Dolores "Lola" Sánchez reveals a forgotten chapter in American Civil War history, another one that illuminates the substantial yet underappreciated contributions of Hispanic Americans to the Confederate cause. Born in 1844 to Cuban parents who had settled in Florida during the mid 1840s, Lola descended from one of Florida's oldest and most distinguished families of Spanish…
Jose Nino
March 10, 2026
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Spencer Roane and the Richmond Junto

The party of Washington, Adams, and Hamilton were swept out of power. The election of 1800 saw the triumph of Jefferson’s Republicans and the complete decimation of the Federalists, a party that would never again control the White House, or either house of Congress, and would cease to exist after the 1816 presidential election. After a contentious battle in the…
Ryan Walters
March 9, 2026
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Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt was an American singer-songwriter born in 1944 in Fort Worth, Texas, whose work occupies a quiet but enduring place in Southern music. His songs sit at the crossroads of folk, country, and blues without ever settling comfortably into any of them, largely because he showed little interest in belonging to pre-set categories. Born of Dutch ancestry and…
Tom Daniel
March 6, 2026
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Should We Despise Lincoln?

From what has been shown throughout this book, it would seem obvious that we should. No single man in American history has done more to abolish liberty than him. Yet Lincoln was not the real issue; he was one person, powerless unless backed by voters and wealthy interests. If we imagine the political decay instituted by the war and his…
Jeb Smith
March 5, 2026
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Kin & Covenant: America’s Clan Culture

The American South has always been a collection of tight-knit communities rooted in family. The earliest settlers were often relatives or from neighboring European villages.  From the very beginning, this was the case almost unilaterally in America. Families immigrated together and moved in unified collectives across desired locales across the colonies. The first families of Virginia were mostly descended from…
Cole Branham
March 4, 2026
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How They Canceled the Dunning School

Readers will be aware that the Dunning School was cancelled by the Marxist historian Eric Foner, but it is worth revisiting the details of exactly how Foner achieved this momentous feat. The reference to “Dunning” usually refers to the distinguished historian William A. Dunning, but it is also used more broadly as a label for his PhD students and the…
Wanjiru Njoya
March 3, 2026
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The South and the American Empire

A Review of Joseph R. Stromberg, The South and the American Empire: Essays (Shotwell Publishing, 2026) Those familiar with the work of Joseph Stromberg know the mastery Stromberg has over the secondary literature in a diversity of academic fields. In the preface, Clyde Wilson states, “Joseph Stromberg is the consummate scholar for all seasons.  . . . is many essays…
John Devanny
March 2, 2026