The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 27-31, 2019 Topics: Memorial Day, Monuments, Political Correctness, Patrick Henry https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-171
Brion McClanahanJune 1, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 13-17, 2019 Topic: Southern conservatism https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-169/s-px7Cz
Brion McClanahanMay 18, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 6-9, 2019 Topics: Confederate symbols,Southern tradition, Mel Bradford, Southern history https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-168
Brion McClanahanMay 11, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institutes, Apr 29-May 3, 2019 Topics: the War, Southern Tradition, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-167
Brion McClanahanMay 4, 2019
Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were only the beginning. For anyone that believed American iconoclasm would stop once Confederate statues were removed or "contextualized," they were rudely awakened last week after the Philadelphia Flyers decided to remove the Kate Smith statue in front of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia due to her "racist" recording history. They first bagged…
Brion McClanahanMay 2, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Apr 22-26, 2019. Topics: Southern tradition, Richard Weaver, Southern culture https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-166
Brion McClanahanApril 27, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Apr 15-19, 2019. Topics: Southern tradition, Political Correctness, John C. Calhoun, Nationalism https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-165
Brion McClanahanApril 20, 2019
Of all the American vice-presidents, none is more vilified than John C. Calhoun. Calhoun is known as the “defender of slavery,” the “cast iron man,” the “man who started the civil war.” His monument in Charleston has been vandalized, his name removed from Calhoun College at Yale, his Alma Mater, and now his home, Clemson University, is debating whether to…
Brion McClanahanApril 18, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Apr 8-12, 2019 Topics: Thomas Jefferson, Reconstruction, Reconciliation, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-164
Brion McClanahanApril 13, 2019
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of U.S. Grant’s inauguration as President of the United States. It also has sparked a renewed interest in Reconstruction, particularly the notion that America failed to capitalize on an “unfinished revolution” as the communist historian Eric Foner describes the period. This general description of the 1860s has been used by both radical leftists like Foner…
Brion McClanahanApril 8, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 25-April 5, 2019 Topics: Political Correctness, the Southern Tradition, Robert E. Lee https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-163
Brion McClanahanApril 6, 2019
A review of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (Simon and Schuster, 2016) by Fergus Bordewich Amateur historians usually write excellent histories. Left unshackled by the latest groupthink of the academy, these historians tend to be independent thinkers and more importantly better writers than their professional counterparts. Shelby Foote…
Brion McClanahanApril 2, 2019
In 1966, Senator Jim Eastland of Mississippi walked into the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked, “Feel hot in heah?” A staffer replied: “Well Senator, the thermostat is set at 72 degrees, but we can make it colder.” Eastland, puzzled by the response, doubled down, “I said, Feel Hot in heah?” The staffer now was perplexed and fearing that he might…
Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 18-22, 2019 Topics: John C. Calhoun, Patrick Cleburne, the War, Political Correctness, Southern Music https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-162
Brion McClanahanMarch 23, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Mar 11-15, 2019 Topics: Political Correctness, Confederate Symbols, Confederate Monuments, Southern History, Confederate Constitution https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-161
Brion McClanahanMarch 17, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 4-8, 2019 Topics: Jeffersonian tradition, economics, Southern symbols. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-160
Brion McClanahanMarch 9, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institutes, Feb 25-Mar 1, 2019 Topics: Southern culture, Southern tradition, Jeffersonian tradition https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-159
Brion McClanahanMarch 2, 2019
Pat Caddell died on February 16. Several major news outlets ran stories about his influence in both the Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump campaigns. Everyone understood Caddell's role as the voice of the "outsider." A colleague at the College of Charleston, where Caddell served in the Political Science department for the last couple of years, said that Caddell hated everything…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 25, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institutes Feb 18-22, 2019 Topics: Southern tradition, New South, Southern politics, American presidents https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-158
Brion McClanahanFebruary 23, 2019
A review of Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty (The Independent Institute, 2014) by Ivan Eland The annual veneration of American monarchy--"Presidents Day"--has passed again. While still officially called "Washington's Birthday" by the general government, the American public has embraced the idea of honoring the executive branch by shopping for furniture, jewelry, or cars. George W.…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 19, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institutes, Feb 11-15, 2019 Topics: Southern history, Political Correctness, Abraham Lincoln, Neoconservatives https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-157
Brion McClanahanFebruary 16, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 4-8, 2019. Topics: Secession, Southern History, Political Correctness, Alexander Hamilton https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-156
Brion McClanahanFebruary 9, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 25-Feb 1, 2019. Topics: Decentralization, Southern Tradition, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-155
Brion McClanahanFebruary 2, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 21-25, 2019 Topics: Reconciliation, Robert E. Lee, Political Correctness, John C. Calhoun, Confederate Symbols https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-154
Brion McClanahanJanuary 26, 2019
When Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo issued a ruling on the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act just minutes before his term expired last week, he upended the entire understanding and meaning of the original Constitution and the relationship between the States, the cities, and the general government. More importantly, though Graffeo's decision will probably--not definitely--be overturned, the ruling provides a…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 24, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 14-18, 2019 Topics: The Southern tradition, Neoconservatives, Yankees, the War https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-153
Brion McClanahanJanuary 19, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 7-11, 2019 Topics: The War, Political Correctness, Southern Art, Southern Literature https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-152
Brion McClanahanJanuary 12, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Dec 17-21, 2018 Topics: Southern symbols, Political Correctness, Secession, Southern tradition https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-151
Brion McClanahanDecember 22, 2018
In 1875, Rev. Moses Drury Hoge stood before 40,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, at the foot of the newly dedicated statue of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and delivered what one historian called the "noblest oration of his later life." He believed that in the future, the path to that statue would be "trodden" by the feet of travelers from "the…
Brion McClanahanDecember 21, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Dec 10-14, 2018 Topics: Political Correctness, Southern History, Southern Culture, Southern Music, Southern Sport https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-150
Brion McClanahanDecember 15, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Dec 3-7, 2018 Topics: Agrarianism, United States Constitution, John Marshall, Andrew Johnson, Thomas Johnson https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-149
Brion McClanahanDecember 8, 2018
A review of John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court (Basic Books, 2018) by Richard Brookhiser John Marshall presents a curious problem for Southern history. How can a man, born and bred in the same State, who breathed the same air and shared the same blood with Thomas Jefferson, have been such an ardent nationalist? The same question…
Brion McClanahanDecember 4, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 26-30, 2018 Topics: Robert E. Lee, Southern music, Southern culture, the War https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-148
Brion McClanahanDecember 1, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 19-23, 2018. Topics: Southern literature, black slaveowners, historical myths https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-147
Brion McClanahanNovember 24, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 12-16, 2018 Topics: Secession, Nullification, Federalism, American Imperialism, Southern Culture, Southern Literature https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-146
Brion McClanahanNovember 17, 2018
Nationalist Jeff Sessions gets canned and a nullifier takes his job. This is actually an odd twist of fate. A friend of mine knows Sessions personally, and he continually expressed disappointment at Sessions's actions as AG. Jeff Sessions is from Alabama and is named after two famous Confederate heroes, Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard. His replacement, Matthew Whitaker, hails from…
Brion McClanahanNovember 14, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 5-9, 2018. Topics: History, Southern Culture, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-145
Brion McClanahanNovember 10, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 29 - Nov 2, 2018 Topics: Southern political tradition, Lincoln https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-144
Brion McClanahanNovember 3, 2018
Greetings fellow neo-Confederates. You have been right all along. How do I know this? Hillary Clinton said so, and if the smartest woman in the world said it, then it has to be true. Of course, she did not directly call herself a "neo-Confederate," but the progressives have rediscovered federalism and by default have vindicated every evil "neo-Confederate" in America.…
Brion McClanahanOctober 29, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institutes, Oct 22-26, 2018. Topics: Secession, Nullification, Federalism, Lincoln, the Southern Tradition https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-143
Brion McClanahanOctober 27, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 15-19, 2018 Topics: Decentralization, Secession, Nullification, Culture War, Political Correctness, Agrarianism https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-142
Brion McClanahanOctober 20, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 8-12, 2018. Topics: Southern Founders, Andrew Jackson, Poor Whites of the Old and New South. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-141
Brion McClanahanOctober 13, 2018
Mel Bradford's outstanding tome A Better Guide Than Reason lifted that phrase from a speech John Dickinson made during the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. Dickinson worried that the delegates to what we now call the "Constitutional Convention" were insistent on crafting a document that would reinvent the government of the United States, something James Madison proposed with his now famous…
Brion McClanahanOctober 10, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 1-5, 2018. Topics: The New South and Nu South, Ty Cobb, Southern history, Southern culture. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-140
Brion McClanahanOctober 6, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 17-28, 2018 Topics: Federalism, Southern Culture, Southern History https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-139
Brion McClanahanSeptember 29, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 10-14, 2018. Topics: Southern literature, the War, Southern music, Bobby Horton https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-138
Brion McClanahanSeptember 15, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 3-7, 2018 Topics: Secession, nullification, federalism, Thomas Jefferson, United States Constitution. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-137
Brion McClanahanSeptember 8, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 27-31, 2018 Topics: Fake History, Political Correctness, Alexander Stephens, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, the War https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-136
Brion McClanahanSeptember 1, 2018
In June 2017, The Atlantic published a hit-piece on Robert E. Lee titled "The Myth of the Kindly General Lee." The article made the rounds on Leftist echo chamber social media accounts and quickly found favor with the popular Leftist Twitter historians, a collection of "distinguished professors," some without a substantial publication record, who like to trumpet their status as "actual…
Brion McClanahanAugust 29, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 20-24, 2018. Topics: Jimmy Carter, Silent Sam, Confederate Monuments, Slavery, Political Correctness, Abraham Lincoln https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-135
Brion McClanahanAugust 25, 2018
Jimmy Carter may have been the last Jeffersonian to be president. A recent article in the Washington Post labeled him the "Un-Celebrity President." In either case, Carter is a reflection of a people and a place. He is the most authentic man elected president since Calvin Coolidge, and like Coolidge a true Christian gentleman. At the very minimum, Carter represented the…
Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 13-17, 2018. Topics: Reconciliation, Southern music, Southern culture, agrarianism, Ronnie Van Zant, Wendell Berry https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-134
Brion McClanahanAugust 18, 2018
In October 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the executive mansion. This was an unprecedented move. No African-American had ever been asked to dine with the president, and while neither Roosevelt or his staff said much of the event, it was surely done in the spirit of reconciliation and Roosevelt's desire to be "the people's…
Brion McClanahanAugust 15, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 6-10, 2018 Topics: the War, Political Correctness, Neoconservatives, Reconstruction, Southern Culture, Southern Literature. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-133
Brion McClanahanAugust 11, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 30 - Aug 3, 2018 Topics: the War, Abraham Lincoln, myth-making, Southern culture, Southern history. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-132
Brion McClanahanAugust 4, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 23-27, 2018 Topics: the War, Southern history, Southern politics, Yankee myths https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-131
Brion McClanahanJuly 28, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 16-20, 2018 Topics: Neoconservatives, Southern identity, Southern culture, the War New banjo introduction by Barrow Wheary. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-130
Brion McClanahanJuly 22, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 9-13, 2018 Topics: Southern independence, Southern culture, Southern architecture, the War, Sam Houston https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-129
Brion McClanahanJuly 14, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 2-6, 2018 Topics: Independence, secession, the War, Political Correctness, Southern religion, Southern founding https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-128
Brion McClanahanJuly 7, 2018
Richard Henry Lee was a patriot, Anti-Federalist, and statesman from his “country,” Virginia. He led the charge for independence in 1776 and was a powerful figure in Virginia political life. He served one term as president of the Continental Congress and was elected a United States Senator from Virginia immediately after the ratification of the Constitution. His role in the…
Brion McClanahanJuly 2, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 25-29, 2018. Topics: Southern history, perception, United States Constitution, Southern culture. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-127
Brion McClanahanJune 30, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 18-22, 2018. Topics: Dixie, the South in pop culture, Confederate symbols, Robert E. Lee https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-126
Brion McClanahanJune 23, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 11-15, 2018 Topics: Treason, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Secession https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-125
Brion McClanahanJune 16, 2018
A review of With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era by William A. Blair (University of North Carolina Press, 2014) and Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis by Cynthia Nicoletti (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Was the act of secession in 1860-61 treason? This is one of the more important and lasting questions…
Brion McClanahanJune 12, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 4-8, 2018 Topics: West Virginia myth, war crimes myth, Pilgrims myth, Righteous Cause Myth, incorporation myth https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-124
Brion McClanahanJune 9, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 28-June 1, 2018 Topics: Treasury of Virtue, Confederate monuments, Political Correctness, Robert E. Lee https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-123
Brion McClanahanJune 3, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 21-25, 2018 Topics: Yankees, Nationalism, Southern Tradition https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-122
Brion McClanahanMay 26, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 14-18, 2018 Topics: Southern tradition, Yankees, Confederate symbols, Jeffersonianism, Southern identity https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-121
Brion McClanahanMay 19, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 7-11, 2018. Topics: Southern culture, Southern history, the War, "Memory Studies" https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-120
Brion McClanahanMay 12, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9z0zwThtw The Confederate Dead (1867) By Latienne From the broad and calm Potomac, To the Rio Grande's waves, Have the brave and noble fallen — And the earth is strewn with graves, In the vale and on the hill-side, Through the wood and by the stream, Has the martial pageant faded, Like the vision of a dream. Where the reveille…
Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Apr 30-May 4, 2018 Topics: Southern conservatism, Yankees, Neoconservatives, Northern secession, the French Revolution https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-119
Brion McClanahanMay 5, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Apr 23-27, 2018 Topics: the War, Lincoln, Historical Myths, Confederate Memorial Day https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-118
Brion McClanahanApril 28, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Apr 16-20, 2018. Topics: Reconciliation, Political Correctness, the War, Southern Culture, Southern Literature https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-117/s-E63oJ
Brion McClanahanApril 21, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Apr 9-13, 2018. Topics: Political Correctness, the New South, the War, Thomas Jefferson, Southern History https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-116
Brion McClanahanApril 14, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Apr 2-6, 2018 Topics: the New South, Agrarianism, Confederate Monuments, World War II https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-115
Brion McClanahanApril 7, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Mar. 26-30, 2018. Topics: the New South, Southern Culture, Hank Williams, Confederate Symbols https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-114
Brion McClanahanMarch 31, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Mar 19-23, 2018 Topics: the War, Southern culture, the New South, Reconstruction, Yankees https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-113
Brion McClanahanMarch 24, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Mar 12-16, 2018 Topics: the War, Southern culture, Southern literature, Abraham Lincoln, 20th century Southern history https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-112
Brion McClanahanMarch 17, 2018
A review of Two Against Lincoln: Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition (University Press of Kansas, 2017) by William C. Harris In a speech before the Senate in 1863, James A. Bayard of Delaware stated that “The truth will out, ultimately…though they may be voted down by the majority of the hour, though they may not…
Brion McClanahanMarch 13, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 5-9, 2018. Topics: the War, Maryland, the U.S. Constitution, Southern Founders, 2nd Amendment, Political Correctness, Southern Culture. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-111
Brion McClanahanMarch 10, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 26- Mar 2, 2018 Topics: the War, Confederate symbols, Southern culture, Yankees, Spencer Roane https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-110
Brion McClanahanMarch 3, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 19-23, 2018 Topics: the War, Reconstruction, North over South, Southern politics https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-109
Brion McClanahanFebruary 24, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 12-16, 2018. Topics: Political Correctness, Southern poetry, Southern literature, the War. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-108
Brion McClanahanFebruary 17, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 5-9, 2018 Topics: Southern film, Southern humor, Southern literature, Political Correctness, Southern politics. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-107
Brion McClanahanFebruary 10, 2018
Everyone wanted to be Southern in the 1970s. The rejuvenated interest in Southern music from bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlies Daniels, and the Allman Brothers (and the unknown Southern influence in the "Motown" sound) was just one component of a larger pro-Southern, working class, populist movement. Southerners had been made consciously Southern again after over a decade of national attention,…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 9, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 29-Feb 2, 2018. Topics: Sectionalism, Secession, Southern Economics, the War, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-106
Brion McClanahanFebruary 3, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 22-26, 2018 Topics: Political Correctness, Confederate Monuments, the War, Abraham Lincoln, Jack Jouett, Southern History https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-105
Brion McClanahanJanuary 27, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 15-19, 2018 Topics: Political Correctness, Confederate Monuments, Southern Education, Robert E. Lee, Chesty Puller https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-104
Brion McClanahanJanuary 20, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 8-12 2018 Topics: Northern studies, the Constitution, 14th Amendment https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-103
Brion McClanahanJanuary 13, 2018
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 1-Dec 31 2017. Topics: Year in review, the Southern tradition https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-102
Brion McClanahanDecember 23, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, December 11-15, 2017 Topics: Southern culture, George Mason, original intent, political correctness, the War. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-101
Brion McClanahanDecember 16, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, December 4-8, 2017 Topic: Special Interview with the President of the Abbeville Institute, Don Livingston https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-100
Brion McClanahanDecember 9, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, November 27-December 1, 2017. Topics: the War, slavery, secession, war crimes, Southern literature, political correctness. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-99
Brion McClanahanDecember 2, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 13-17, 2017. Topics: Political Correctness, Southern culture, Robert E. Lee, secession, John C. Calhoun, the Deep North https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-98
Brion McClanahanNovember 18, 2017
If you listen to the modern historical profession, Southern secession in 1861 represented "treason." David Blight, Professor History at Yale University, has made this belief the part of the core of his attack on Confederate symbols. If we should not take them down because they represent "white supremacy," then they should be removed because Southerners were "traitors." Traitors to whom…
Brion McClanahanNovember 16, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 6-10 2017. Topics: Reconstruction, Jewish Confederates, Southern weather, Southern literature, Southern culture. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-97
Brion McClanahanNovember 11, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2017 Topics: Southern religion, Robert E. Lee, Political Correctness, Southern Humor, Southern Founding, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-96
Brion McClanahanNovember 4, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 23-27, 2017. Topics: Abraham Lincoln, the United States Constitution, Slavery, Political Correctness, Confederate Monuments, Southern Culture https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-95
Brion McClanahanOctober 28, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 16-20, 2017 Topics: The War, Political Correctness, Nat Turner, Federalism, Abraham Lincoln, Southern Culture https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-94
Brion McClanahanOctober 21, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 9-13. 2017. Topics: Political Correctness, Yankees, the War, War Crimes, Confederate Monuments, Nullification https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-93
Brion McClanahanOctober 14, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 2-6, 2017 Topics: Political Correctness, Cultural Marxism, Confederate symbols, secession, Braxton Bragg https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-92
Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2017
This isn’t 1990. The Winds of Change have stopped blowing. When the Soviets present a more docile response to self determination than a “western democracy,” the situation is bad. How painful is it to pine for the days of passive Soviet resistance to secession? Images and videos of the jack-booted thugs bulldozing their way through crowds of peaceful voters (including firemen…
Brion McClanahanOctober 4, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 25-29, 2017 Topics: the War, Politically Correct History, Reconstruction, Andrew Jackson, Radical Republicans https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-91
Brion McClanahanSeptember 30, 2017
A review of Southern Reconstruction by Philip Leigh (Westholme, 2017). Confronting the establishment narrative about any historical topic can be a perilous endeavor. There are several that present such large minefields that most historians dare not attempt to cross, among them the “Civil War,” Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights movement. Bucking the accepted version of events in any of those…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 26, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 18-22, 2017 Topics: Culture war, Alexander Hamilton, American constitutions, Southern politics. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-90
Brion McClanahanSeptember 24, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, September 11-15, 2017 Topics: Southern symbols, political correctness, Southern literature, the War, James Madison https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-89
Brion McClanahanSeptember 16, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 4-8, 2017 Topics: Political Correctness, Confederate Monuments, Battle of Fredericksburg, Republican and Democrat Parties https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-88
Brion McClanahanSeptember 9, 2017
On 28 August 2017, the American Historical Association (AHA) issued a “Statement on Confederate Monuments” that presumed to speak for the entire American historical profession on the issue of whether these monuments should remain or if they should be removed from public spaces. Unfortunately this “statement” is little more than historical establishment claptrap disguised as highbrow intellectual discourse—par for the…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 6, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 28 - Sep 1, 2017. Topics: United States Constitution, nullification, slavery, United States Presidents, Political Correctness, Lost Cause https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-87
Brion McClanahanSeptember 2, 2017
The top ten articles for August 2017: 1. Why The War Was Not About Slavery by Clyde Wilson 2. Defending the Confederacy by Ryan Walters 3. The Real Robert E. Lee by James Rutledge Roesch 4. A Monumental Spin by H.V. Traywick, Jr. 5. What Confederate Monument Critics May Not Know by Philip Leigh 6. We Long to Be Free!…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 2, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 21-25, 2017. Topics: Southern symbols, Robert E. Lee, Nullification, Confederate law, Confederate Constitution. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-86
Brion McClanahanAugust 26, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 14-18, 2017. Topics: Southern symbols, Southern history, Slavery, the War. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-85
Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2017
Delivered at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. The attack on the so-called “lost cause” myth in American history is nothing new. Beginning in the 1950s and 60s, historians like Kenneth Stampp began a concerted effort to undermine the dominant historical interpretation of the War, namely that the War and Reconstruction had been stains on American history, that the War…
Brion McClanahanAugust 18, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 7-11, 2017. Topics: Agrarianism, populism, John C. Calhoun, William L. Yancey, political minorities, secession, Southern identity, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-84
Brion McClanahanAugust 13, 2017
Neo-conservatives can’t seem to make up their mind about the Confederacy. They all agree that the Confederacy represented everything evil about early America (which places them squarely in league with their intellectual brothers on the Left) but why they hate it presents the real conundrum. It borders on schizophrenia. Neo-conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson, for example, often rails against the…
Brion McClanahanAugust 10, 2017
1. Why Vicksburg Canceled the Fourth of July – For a Generation by Karen Stokes 2. Bust Hell Wide Open by James Rutledge Roesch 3. You Are Deplorable by Clyde Wilson 4. The Origins of the Neo-Marxist Attack on the South by Norman Black 5. General Lee Figured It Out by Fred Reed 6. "Free People of Color" in Dixie…
Brion McClanahanAugust 6, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 31- August 4, 2017 Topics: Secession, Political Correctness, the Jeffersonian political tradition, Confederate monuments. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-83
Brion McClanahanAugust 5, 2017
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has given the green light for CalExit proponents to begin collecting signatures for a California secession ballot initiative in the 2018 general election. This is good news. California is the logical place to begin having a conversation about secession, and every red state American should be actively supporting the proposal. As California goes, so goes…
Brion McClanahanAugust 3, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 24-28, 2017. Topics: Southern identity, nullification, the New South https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-82
Brion McClanahanJuly 30, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. As scholars dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition, we are most often drawn to the antebellum South and the early federal period, the days when Jeffersonian federalism and political economy reigned supreme and Southern statesmen were regarded as the best in the land. We still fight…
Brion McClanahanJuly 28, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 17-21, 2017 Topics: Southern Literature, Southern Art, Political Correctness, Southern Identity https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-81
Brion McClanahanJuly 22, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 10-14 2017 Topics: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Richard B. Russell, the New South, Confederate symbols, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-80
Brion McClanahanJuly 15, 2017
There was a time both before and after the War when the South dominated the United States Congress. In the antebellum period, James Madison, John C. Calhoun, John Randolph of Roanoke, and Henry Clay placed their mark on congressional debates, and several other Southerners ranked among the best statesmen of the era. But most Americans, even those in the South, don't realize that by the mid-twentieth century, Southerners…
Brion McClanahanJuly 12, 2017
The top ten for June 2017. Read 'em again. 1. Why Does the Left Really Despise the Confederacy? by Ryan Walters 2. The War Between the States: Who were the Nazis? by Clyde Wilson 3. New Orleans Mayor Hypes His Cultural Cleansing by Gail Jarvis 4. The Real Reason Confederate Symbols are Attacked by Tom Landess 5. The Ad Too…
Brion McClanahanJuly 9, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 3-7, 2017 Topics: the Southern tradition, Southern history, Secession https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-79
Brion McClanahanJuly 8, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 26-30, 2017 Topics: Political Correctness, Southern literature, the War https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-78
Brion McClanahanJuly 1, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 19-23, 2017 Topics: Southern Symbols, Political Correctness, Andrew Lytle, Southern Culture https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-77
Brion McClanahanJune 24, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 12-16, 2017 Topics: Political Correctness, Southern symbols, the War, Southern culture, Southern economics, the FED https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-76
Brion McClanahanJune 17, 2017
The week in review at the Abbeville Institute, June 5-9, 2017. Topics: Cultural Marxism, Confederate symbols, Southern history, Jeffersonian economy, Southern culture https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-75
Brion McClanahanJune 11, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 29-June 2, 2017 Topics: Confederate symbols, Political Correctness, The War, secession, Southern economics. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-74
Brion McClanahanJune 3, 2017
Many Americans will pause today to honor the men and women who have given their lives in the United States armed forces. What most probably don't know is that this holiday originated in the South after the War for Southern Independence. It was originally called "Decoration Day." Don't tell the social justice warriors. The monuments that these modern day Leninists believe…
Brion McClanahanMay 29, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 22-26, 2017 Topics: Republican Party, Political Correctness, Southern Culture, Southern Economics, Robert E. Lee https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-73
Brion McClanahanMay 27, 2017
The week in review at the Abbeville Institute, May 15-19, 2017. Topics: Southern culture, the Southern tradition, PC attacks on the South, the Southern founding, republicanism. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-72
Brion McClanahanMay 21, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 8-12 2017 Topics: Donald Trump, the War, Southern history, Southern literature https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-71
Brion McClanahanMay 13, 2017
The title of this piece may seem odd in light of recent events in New Orleans and the mass hysteria over all things Confederate since June 2015. Monuments have come down, flags have been furled, and streets have been renamed. While these are certainly loses, they are mere skirmishes in a wider cultural war that the Left is losing. They…
Brion McClanahanMay 10, 2017
The Top 10 Articles for April 2017: 1. New Orleans: A People Without a Past Have No Future by Boyd Cathey 2. Confederate Monuments by H. V. Traywick, Jr. 3. What Was Lost 150 Years Ago by Boyd Cathey 4. Why Flannery O'Connor Never Liked Yankees by Michael Jordan 5. The Soul of the Southern Tradition by William Gill 6.…
Brion McClanahanMay 10, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 1-5, 2017. Topics: Southern culture, Southern literature, Political Correctness, Southern history. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-70
Brion McClanahanMay 6, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 24-28, 2017 Topics: Northern myths, Confederate symbols, political correctness, the founding period https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-69
Brion McClanahanApril 29, 2017
The "fake news" pejorative has become commonplace in modern public discourse, so much so that social media outlets have taken it upon themselves to "police" so-called "fake news" stories and warn people about their dangers. This was largely due to the supposed impact "fake news" had on Trump supporters in 2016. To these self-appointed gatekeepers of truth, honesty, and the…
Brion McClanahanApril 27, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 17-21, 2017. Topics: Southern culture, Western Civilization, Southern tradition, Southern intellectual history, agrarianism. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-68
Brion McClanahanApril 22, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 10-14, 2017 Topics: Southern history, Thomas Jefferson, Political Correctness, Southern symbols, the War. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-67
Brion McClanahanApril 15, 2017
A Review of Joseph W. Danielson, War's Desolating Scourage: The Union's Occupation of North Alabama, University Press of Kansas, 2012; Charles A. Misulia, Columbus Georgia 1865: The Last True Battle of the Civil War, The University of Alabama Press, 2010. On Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, Union forces under the command of General James Harrison Wilson attacked, captured, and sacked…
Brion McClanahanApril 14, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 3-7, 2017 Topics: Southern political principles, the Republican Party, Secession, the United States Constitution https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-66
Brion McClanahanApril 8, 2017
Our top ten for March 2017: 1. The South's Gonna Do It Again by Tom Fleming 2. God, Gallup, and the Episcopalians by Cleanth Brooks 3. Southern Heritage Then and Now by Clyde Wilson 4. The Dark Side of Abraham Lincoln by Tom Landess 5. A Disease of the Public Mind by Tom DiLorenzo 6. Jefferson and Slavery by Dave…
Brion McClanahanApril 3, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 27-31 2017 Topics: Yankees, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-65
Brion McClanahanApril 1, 2017
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is rattling his sabers and threatening war against the United States. He blew up an American aircraft carrier in one propaganda video and has goaded the Trump administration in several other statements, ostensibly to create the image of manly firmness to his people. Obviously, high profile assassinations and executions along with staged videos showing Jong-un…
Brion McClanahanMarch 30, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 20-24, 2017. Topics: Thomas Jefferson, Southern culture, Southern heritage, Southern history, Bernard Baruch, Southern literature https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-64
Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Mar 13-17, 2017 Topics: Southern culture, John C. Calhoun, the American presidency, Robert Lewis Dabney https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-63
Brion McClanahanMarch 18, 2017
According to the modern historical establishment, John C. Calhoun is the ultimate American villain. These esteemed historians think lofty assessments from previous decades failed to account for his glaring inconsistencies in regard to federal power, his advocacy for American imperialism, or his well-known defense of slavery and racism. Historians may have been critical of Calhoun's advancement of the "positive good"…
Brion McClanahanMarch 14, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Mar 6-10, 2017. Topics: Southern culture, Southern religion, Southern language. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-62
Brion McClanahanMarch 11, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 27- Mar 3, 2017 Topics: Southern culture, Southern literature, North over South, Secession https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-61
Brion McClanahanMarch 4, 2017
The top ten articles for February 2017: 1. Attack on Robert E. Lee is an Assault on American History Itself by Allan Brownfield 2. Presidents Quiz by Clyde Wilson 3. Washington vs. Lincoln by Brion McClanahan 4. Why the South Fought by Sheldon Vanuaken 5. Union or Else by Karen Stokes 6. The Black Confederate and the Teddy Bear by…
Brion McClanahanMarch 1, 2017
A large portion of California wants to secede. That’s a good thing. American conservatives should not only applaud the move, they should be doing everything possible to help them find the door. Image a world without Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Diane Feinstein, or Kamala Harris; where Democrats would not start the presidential election cycle with nearly one quarter of the…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 27, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 20-24, 2017 Topics: American War for Independence, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Secession, Nullification https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-60
Brion McClanahanFebruary 25, 2017
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington stare silently at one another across the reflecting pool on the National Mall in Washington D.C., their paths inextricably linked by the historians who consider both to be the greatest presidents in American history. One is a monument, a testament to the man and his influence on American history, the other a memorial to the…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 22, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 13-17 2017. Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, John C. Calhoun, William T. Sherman, Political Correctness, Southern Sports https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-59
Brion McClanahanFebruary 19, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 6-10 2017 Topics: Southern manners, Southern culture, Southern literature, Southern tradition. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-58
Brion McClanahanFebruary 11, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 30 - Feb 3, 2017 Topics: Secession, Yankees, Decentralization, Nationalism, Conventions https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-57
Brion McClanahanFebruary 4, 2017
From the 2016 Abbeville Institute Conference on Nullification, August 13, 2016, Atlanta, GA https://youtu.be/MJftpjmBBFo
Brion McClanahanFebruary 3, 2017
The top ten articles for January 2017. 1. Ashley Judd Gets Nasty by Brion McClanahan 2. Old Western Man: C.S. Lewis and the Old South by Sheldon Vanauken 3. The Dixie Curse by Paul Yarbrough 4. Robert E. Lee, Southern Heritage, Media Bias, and Al Sharpton by Gail Jarvis 5. Robert E. Lee: American Hero by Brion McClanahan 6. Stonewall…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 1, 2017
Editor's note: McClanahan misspoke at the beginning of the podcast. This is episode 56, not 55. The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 23-27, 2017. Topics: Southern women, Ashley Judd, Southern literature. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-56
Brion McClanahanJanuary 28, 2017
“Treat a woman like a lady, And your lady like a queen….” Charlie Daniels Ashley Judd’s recitation of “I’m a Nasty Woman” at the “women’s” march on Washington D.C. splashed across every media outlet in America. Judd proudly proclaimed to be a feminist and then launched into a verbal diatribe against “racism, fraud, conflict of interest, homophobia, sexual assault,…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 23, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 16-20, 2017. Topics: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Southern History, Dixie, Political Correctness https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-55
Brion McClanahanJanuary 22, 2017
Several years ago, leftist blowhard Richard Cohen at the Washington Post wrote that Robert E. Lee “deserves no honor — no college, no highway, no high school. In the awful war (620,000 dead) that began 150 years ago this month, he fought on the wrong side for the wrong cause. It’s time for Virginia and the South to honor the…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 19, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 9-13, 2017. Topics: The Southern Tradition, C.S. Lewis, 19th Century Politics, Donald Trump, Southern Culture https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-54
Brion McClanahanJanuary 15, 2017
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 2-6, 2017 Topics: Secession, Southwestern History, the Southern Tradition, Federalism, Old Republicans https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-53
Brion McClanahanJanuary 8, 2017
William S. Belko, Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court (The University of Alabama Press, 2016). Sometimes a professional historian gets it right. William Belko has produced a quality tome that both expands and enhances our understanding of American history. While most academics write about the same subjects and regurgitate fashionable theories with “new”…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 6, 2017
Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina told a friend in 1980 that, "I'm bound to confess that President Carter has instilled some foreboding in prospect to the outcome of the election....As I interpret his campaign sermon, President Carter said states' rights had become as obscene as any four-letter word, and Ronald Reagan had proved his unfitness for the presidency by telling…
Brion McClanahanDecember 30, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, 2016 in Review Topics: Conferences, Political Correctness, Southern Tradition, Donald Trump, Secession, Nullification https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-52
Brion McClanahanDecember 17, 2016
Food is one of the more tangible and recognizable elements of Southern culture and one that is worth exploring. It serves as a bridge between the tables of the Old South and the New. It was once said that Virginians dined, Yankees just ate. This was due in large part to the old Cavalier practice of multi-course meals that could…
Brion McClanahanDecember 13, 2016
According to Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, secession is now being advocated by "rational people, not the fringe."This is an insult to all rational people.Rational people for generations have supported secession, including every scholar at the Abbeville Institute. But now that idiot Leftists in California, Oregon, and Washington are for it, somehow secession has become "rational."I think George Washington, Thomas…
Brion McClanahanDecember 7, 2016
The week in review at the Abbeville Institute, November 14-18, 2016. Topics: 2016 presidential election, the Electoral College, Donald Trump, populism, secession https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-51
Brion McClanahanNovember 19, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, November 7-11 2016 Topics: Secession, the Southern tradition, Southern history, William T. Sherman https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-50
Brion McClanahanNovember 13, 2016
Donald Trump won and California wants to secede. Mises Institute President Jeff Deist tweeted during the election: "look for the Dems to discover the virtues of secession, nullification, and states rights." It didn't take long for leftists to realize the value of secession. Within hours of Trump's stunning victory (a victory yours truly predicted as early as February this year),…
Brion McClanahanNovember 10, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 31 - Nov 4 2016 Topics: Southern literature, William Faulkner, Abraham Lincoln, John C. Calhoun, Southern humor https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-49
Brion McClanahanNovember 5, 2016
Our top ten pieces for October 2016. If you have not read them yet, you should. If you have, read 'em again. 1. Why The War Was Not About Slavery by Clyde Wilson 2. John C. Calhoun: Anti-Imperialist by Clyde Wilson 3. Ortho-Dixie: Orthodox Christianity and Southern Identity by Stephen Borthwick 4. It Probably Won't End Well by Paul Yarbrough…
Brion McClanahanNovember 5, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, October 24-28, 2016 Topics: The Southern Tradition, the War for Southern Independence, Jack Hinson, Southern Literature, Abraham Lincoln, Southern Music, Charlie Daniels https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-48
Brion McClanahanOctober 29, 2016
Charlie Daniels turns 80 today. He is still producing top quality music and is still an iconic symbol of the South and the Southern musical tradition. Most people are familiar with his hits--"The South's Gonna Do It Again," "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," and "Long Haired Country Boy"--but these tunes are a conspicuous though minimal part of a career that spans five…
Brion McClanahanOctober 28, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 17-21, 2016. Topics: Republican Party, Southern Political Tradition, Jefferson, Conservatism, George W. Bush, Southern Religion https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-47
Brion McClanahanOctober 23, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 10-14, 2016 Topics: Independence, Secession, the Southern Tradition, American Politics https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-46
Brion McClanahanOctober 15, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, October 3-7 2016. Topics: Reconciliation, Republican Party, Political Correctness, Agrarianism https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-45
Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 26-30, 2016 Topics: The Republican Party, American Empire, Nationalism https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-44
Brion McClanahanOctober 3, 2016
The top ten for September 2016. 1. Decentralization for Humanity's Sake by Brion McClanahan 2. Secession Without Civil War by Philip Leigh 3. The South as an Independent Nation by William Cawthon 4. Rethinking the War for the 21st Century by Clyde Wilson 5. Andrew Jackson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by James Rutledge Roesch 6. Deep Down…
Brion McClanahanOctober 1, 2016
Reprinted from brionmcclanahan.com As the first leg of the American invasion force rolled through Iraq in 2003, Sergeant Brad Colbert of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps leaned out the window of his Humvee and urged the Iraqi people to “vote Republican.” This moment was captured by the embedded reporter, Evan Wright, and made famous in…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 27, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Sept 19-23, 2016 Topics: Charles Carroll, James Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Statesmanship, Agrarianism, Decentralization, George Washington https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-43
Brion McClanahanSeptember 24, 2016
Every student of history knows at least a brief sketch of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, but most people don't realize that Alexander Hamilton's excise tax on distilled spirits hit George Washington in the wallet as well, albeit years after the rebellion. He owned the largest distillery in Northern Virginia from 1797-1799 and shipped hundreds of gallons of moonshine to Alexandria during the…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 23, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 12-16, 2016. Topics: Secession, War for Southern Independence, Southern culture, Southern literature, Southern music. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-42
Brion McClanahanSeptember 17, 2016
The late 1970s represented the heyday of popular Southern music. Southern rock and "outlaw country" dominated the airwaves. It was chic to say "ya'll," even in Boston, and with the election of Jimmy Carter, it really seemed the "South was gonna' do it again." It wouldn't last. During an interview at Capricorn Studios in Macon, GA one afternoon, Charlie Daniels spit into his cup and…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 16, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 5-9, 2016 Topics: Southern culture, Southern tradition, Agrarians, Decentralization, Southern politics, Confederate Constitution https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-41
Brion McClanahanSeptember 11, 2016
The Roman historian Titus Livius once called Rome “the greatest nation in the world.” He wrote those words in a time of moral and political decline, and Livy was hoping by outlining the greatness of the once proud republic, the Roman people would arrest the decline and embrace the principles that had made Rome great. Livy argued that without understanding…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 9, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 29- Sep 2, 2016. Topics: Secession, Slavery, Southern Politics, the War for Southern Independence https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-40
Brion McClanahanSeptember 3, 2016
The top ten articles for August 2016: 1. Debunking the Debunking: Gary Ross and His "Myths of the Civil War" by Ryan Walters 2. American Culture: Massachusetts or Virginia by Clyde Wilson 3. NASCAR's Slow Ride to Nowhere by Mike Tuggle 4. Was the Civil War About Slavery? by Dave Benner 5. Reflections of a Ghost: An Agrarian View After…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 1, 2016
Indentured servitude is one of the more neglected elements of American labor history. Most historians gloss over the subject in route to African slavery. This is largely due to the impact of long standing issues of race in America, but Southerners understood Northern complicity in the institution of African slavery and often pointed to Northern hypocrisy in regard to the…
Brion McClanahanAugust 29, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 22-26, 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, Southern Tradition, I'll Take My Stand, Federalism https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-39
Brion McClanahanAugust 28, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Aug. 15-19, 2016. Topics: Political correctness, NASCAR, Southern culture, Southern politics. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-38
Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 8-12, 2016. Topics: Gary Ross, Myths of the "Civil War," Secession, the New South, Reconstruction, Southern Economy, Thomas Jefferson, the First Amendment https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-37
Brion McClanahanAugust 13, 2016
The New South is one of the more misunderstood periods in American history. The contemporary narrative generally describes the period and its leaders as dense political hacks riding the coattails of Northern business elites. They were "wannabe" statesmen whose political ideology was singularly tied to race. This perspective is clouded by present conditions and our own short-sighted infatuation with racial politics. Historians…
Brion McClanahanAugust 11, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 1-5, 2016 Topics: War for Southern Independence, Southern Culture, Abraham Lincoln, United States Constitution https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-36
Brion McClanahanAugust 6, 2016
Mainstream historians are both an incestuous and snarky bunch. They latch on to trends--fads really--and pull those trends like mules lugging a heavy cart to market (where they hope to sell books to their tens of fans). In time, the mules give out, but unlike the mule, these historians never realize they are whipped. They hire more mules like them…
Brion McClanahanAugust 4, 2016
The Top Ten for July 2016. Read 'em again. 1. The Free State of Jones: History or Hollywood? by Ryan Walters 2. Understanding the Battle Hymn of the Republic by Howard Ray White 3. Why Vicksburg Canceled the Fourth of July – For a Generation by Karen Stokes 4. Rethinking the Declaration of Independence by Brion McClanahan 5. Nathan Bedford…
Brion McClanahanAugust 1, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 11-15 and July 25-29, 2016 Topics: The Free State of Jones, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Southern politics, agrarianism, secession, slavery https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-35
Brion McClanahanJuly 31, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 4-8, 2016. Topics: American War for Independence, Transcendentalism, War for Southern Independence, Thomas Jefferson, United States Constitution https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-34
Brion McClanahanJuly 9, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 27 - July 1, 2016. Topics: Brexit, Nullification, Southern Culture, Boxing https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-33
Brion McClanahanJuly 2, 2016
The ten best for June 2016. Read 'em again. 1. Oh Say Can You See...Another One Bites the Dust by David McCallister 2. How (and Why) to Dress Like a (Southern) Conservative, Part I by Dan E. Phillips 3. Who Will Be Our Monuments Men? by Lunelle McCallister 4. The Theology of Secession by M.E. Bradford 5. Jefferson Davis: A…
Brion McClanahanJuly 1, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 20-24, 2016 Topics: Nullification, United States Constitution, Religion, Political Correctness, Southern Tradition https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-32
Brion McClanahanJune 25, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 13-17, 2016 Topics: Southern Religion, Calvin Coolidge, Political Correctness, Thomas Jefferson, Secession https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-31
Brion McClanahanJune 18, 2016
Calvin Coolidge is one of the more maligned presidents in American history. I rank him as one of the best in my 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America. Coolidge should be commended for his executive restraint and homespun honesty, two character traits that have escaped the modern American executive. He was a throwback to the nineteenth century when the president…
Brion McClanahanJune 13, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 6-10, 2016 Topics: Political Correctness, Nullification, Southern culture, Southern dress https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-30
Brion McClanahanJune 11, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 30-June 3, 2016 Topics: Patrick Henry, Political Correctness, Secession, the United States Constitution, John Randolph of Roanoke, Jefferson Davis https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-29
Brion McClanahanJune 4, 2016
Our top ten articles for May. Read 'em again. 1. Hampton Roads: A Twist in the Lincoln Myth by Dave Benner 2. Erasing Southern History, Step by Step by Alphonse-Louis Vinh 3. Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic by Paul C. Graham 4. "Don't Leave Me Here to Bleed to Death!" by Karen Stokes 5. Is "White Supremacy" an Exclusively "Southern" Ideology?…
Brion McClanahanJune 2, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 23-27, 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, agrariansim, the Southern tradition, Reconstruction https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-28
Brion McClanahanMay 28, 2016
What makes the South, the South? Most modern Americans would say football and grits sprinkled with a bit of country music and NASCAR. These clichés hold true for many Southerners today, but what made the South before the commercialization of the American economy was a commitment to land, family, and God. It was both a temporal and a spiritual understanding…
Brion McClanahanMay 23, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 16-20, 2016. Topics: Abraham Lincoln, War for Southern Independence, Political Correctness, Progressivism, Southern History, Southern Literature, Southern Culture, the United States Constitution https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-27
Brion McClanahanMay 21, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 9-13 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, Progressivism, Southern History, Confederate History, Secession, the United States Constitution https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-26
Brion McClanahanMay 14, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 2-6 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, Northern hypocrisy, Southern history, Southern culture https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-25
Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2016
“We abhor the doctrine of the "Types of Mankind;" first, because it is at war with scripture, which teaches us that the whole human race is descended from a common parentage; and, secondly, because it encourages and incites brutal masters to treat negroes, not as weak, ignorant and dependent brethren, but as wicked beasts, without the pale of humanity. The…
Brion McClanahanMay 3, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 23-29, 2016. Topics: The PC attack on the South, Andrew Jackson, secession, Confederaphobia https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-24
Brion McClanahanMay 1, 2016
The top ten articles for April 2016: 1. Andrew Jackson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by James Rutledge Roesch 2. Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic by Paul C. Graham 3. Why the War Was Not About Slavery by Clyde Wilson 4. The Cause of Jackson is the Cause of Us All by James Rutledge Roesch 5. Lies My Teacher…
Brion McClanahanMay 1, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 18-22, 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, U.S. Grant, Reconstruction, the Confederate Constitution, Southern medicine and science. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-23
Brion McClanahanApril 23, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 11-15, 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, Southern music, Southern literature, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, secession, Southern symbols, William T. Sherman, war crimes. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-22
Brion McClanahanApril 16, 2016
My recent piece on James Ryder Randall, "At Arlington", touched a nerve, at least with Christian McWhirter. I spent some time in "At Arlington" discussing his March Time magazine piece, and thus he was compelled to reply. McWhirter begins by wondering when the "neo-Confederate crowd" would respond to his article. It only took him one sentence to use the tired pejorative "neo-Confederate"…
Brion McClanahanApril 12, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 4-8, 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, Southern literature, Robert E. Lee, James Ryder Randall, American imperialism, the original Constitution and State's Rights. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-21
Brion McClanahanApril 9, 2016
The PC police have found a new target. Not satisfied with monuments and flags, the Maryland general assembly recently voted to alter the lyrics to the official State song, James Ryder Randall's "Maryland, My Maryland." Lincoln apologist Christian McWhirter penned a piece for Time magazine that labeled the song "dissident." This is true if using the standard definition of the word,…
Brion McClanahanApril 5, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 28 - April 1, 2016. Topics: Secession, Abraham Lincoln, Southern Literature, Southern Culture, Independence, Jeffersonian Tradition, Southern Art https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-20
Brion McClanahanApril 2, 2016
The Top Ten articles for March 2016: 1. Why The War Was Not About Slavery by Clyde Wilson 2. Baltimore Set to Ban Lee and Jackson, to Welcome Degenerate Divine by J. L. Bennett 3. Secession Hypocrisy: The Case of West Virginia by Dave Benner 4. The Battle Flag and Christianity by Lunelle McCallister 5. Andrew Jackson: The Good, the…
Brion McClanahanApril 2, 2016
For several weeks my local art museum displayed a traveling exhibit from the Johnson Collection of art permanently located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The prevailing consensus among historians is that the antebellum South did not produce much in the way of art, that its literature was substandard, and that its only contribution to American history was slavery and militaristic oligarchy. Those who read this blog understand this position to…
Brion McClanahanApril 1, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, 21-25 March, 2016. Topics: William T. Sherman, War Crimes, Republicanism, Secession, Southern Easter https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-19
Brion McClanahanMarch 26, 2016
Benjamin Franklin White, born 1800 in South Carolina, was a Southern music pioneer. His collection of hymns titled The Sacred Harp, published in 1844, was based on shape note singing and became the standard hymnal in the South. Shape note music first appeared in 1801 and quickly spread through the rural Southern congregationalist communities. The music is performed a cappella…
Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 14-18, 2016 Topics: John C. Calhoun, PC, Confederate Emancipation, Slavery, Charles Carroll of Carrollton https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-18
Brion McClanahanMarch 19, 2016
A slightly different version of this essay is Chapter Eleven in Brion McClanahan, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers (Regnery, 2009). This essay is offered as a Southern celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Charles Carroll of Carrollton has one of the more interesting stories of the Founding generation. He was one of the wealthiest men in the colonies…
Brion McClanahanMarch 17, 2016
Topics: Confederate monuments, PC, Slavery and the War, Switzerland https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/podcast-episode-17
Brion McClanahanMarch 12, 2016
The Week in Review, February 29-March 4, 2016 Topics: Southern literature, Harper Lee, Margaret Mitchell, PC, the Confederate Flag, Confederate monuments, the Southern tradition. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-16
Brion McClanahanMarch 5, 2016
The top ten articles for February 2016: 1. The Nationalist Myth by Brion McClanahan 2. Scalia, the Constitution, and the Court by Carl Jones 3. What's Holding Alabama Back? by Tom Daniel 4. The Principle of Secession Historically Traced by George Petrie 5. Rethinkin' Lincoln by Brion McClanahan 6. Dilorenzo and His Critics by Clyde Wilson 7. John C. Calhoun…
Brion McClanahanMarch 1, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, February 22-26, 2016. Topics: George Washington, Agrarianism, the Southern tradition, Antonin Scalia, Abraham Lincoln, Southern heroes. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-15
Brion McClanahanFebruary 27, 2016
The most frequent question I have received during promotion of my new book, 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her, has been, “How can you say that Lincoln screwed up America?” After all, he is the man who saved the Union and who put slavery on the path to extinction. There should be a…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 26, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, February 15-19, 2016. Topic: Abraham Lincoln https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-14
Brion McClanahanFebruary 21, 2016
Dave Benner, Compact of the Republic: The League of the States and the Constitution (Life and Liberty Publishing, 2015). James Ronald Kennedy, Uncle Seth Fought the Yankees (Pelican Publishing, 2015). Jack Kerwick, The American Offensive: Dispatches from the Front (Stairway Press, 2015). One of the results of the Northern victory in 1865 was the codification of Lincolnian nationalism and its…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 19, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 8-12, 2016. Topics: Reconstruction, Southern History, Secession, James Iredell, Southern politics. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-13
Brion McClanahanFebruary 13, 2016
The Week in Review for Feb 1-5, 2016. Topics: Southern culture and Black Southerners https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-12
Brion McClanahanFebruary 6, 2016
Many people are familiar with the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project of the 1930s. While some historians reject them for what has been called gross inaccuracies due in large part to the many positive memories of the institution (the negative accounts are always used), they have become the standard source for firsthand information on the institution from the…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 5, 2016
Our top ten articles for January 2016: Black Slaveowners by Larry Koger Robert E. Lee: Gallant Soldier, True Patriot, Noble Christian by Mike Scruggs Did Black People Own Slaves? by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A Southerner Repents by Fred Reed Stonewall Jackson by James I. Robertson, Jr. When the Yankees Come: Former South Carolina Slaves Remember the Invasion by Paul…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 2, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 25-29, 2016. Topics include the Southern tradition, Southern cooking, Southern politics, Thomas Jefferson, Southern education, and Robert E. Lee. https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-11
Brion McClanahanJanuary 30, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 18-22, 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-10
Brion McClanahanJanuary 23, 2016
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