In the early days of the United States, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton remarked: "The safety…
Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2014
The Constitutional power of the President never was or could be formidable, unless it was…
Clyde WilsonNovember 5, 2014
The final part in this installment is a lecture entitled, "Reconstruction in the Experience of…
Clyde WilsonOctober 30, 2014
When did the South ever lay its hand on the North? --Calhoun The body of…
Clyde WilsonOctober 28, 2014
I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…
Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
Reality is what continues to exist whether you believe in it or not. --Philip K.…
Clyde WilsonOctober 6, 2014
These 40 questions have been carefully designed to test your qualifications as a citizen. The…
Clyde WilsonOctober 3, 2014
When I first heard of the topic "Small is Beautiful," I thought of the wonderful…
Clyde WilsonOctober 2, 2014
“Sic Semper Tyrannis.” — from the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia “I want…
Clyde WilsonOctober 1, 2014
In honor of William Faulkner's birthday (Sept 25), Clyde Wilson discusses Faulkner as a conservative.…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 25, 2014
This essay appears in Clyde Wilson and Brion McClanahan, Forgotten Conservatives in American History and…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 22, 2014
Swagger and ferocity, built on a foundation of vulgarity and cowardice, those are his characteristics,…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 18, 2014
This essay originally appeared in Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 17, 2014
While I could never with safety repose confidence in a Yankee, I have never been…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 11, 2014
How do you achieve peace and normal life after a civil war? Of course the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 8, 2014
Reconstruction. There is no part of American history in which what is taught these days…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2014
The burden of our endeavour in this conference is to examine the great morality play…
Clyde WilsonAugust 25, 2014
One of the cultural markers that has identified that which we call Southern from the…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2014
Expert testimony in several federal court cases: Scholars in every field in the humanities and…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2014
The real U.S. Constitution, which was scrapped long ago, does not permit judges to be…
Clyde WilsonAugust 7, 2014
We Sons of Confederate Veterans are charged with preserving the good name of the Confederate…
Clyde WilsonJuly 22, 2014
*What American President launched a massive invasion of another country that posed no threat, and…
Clyde WilsonJuly 15, 2014
One of the greatest men in American history was born on this date (July 13)…
Clyde WilsonJuly 14, 2014
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed…
Clyde WilsonJuly 9, 2014
We now approach the heart of Taylor's Inquiry: recent times had created a new type…
Clyde WilsonJune 26, 2014
The “positive good” speech of February 6, 1837, is vintage Calhoun, an exercise of his…
Clyde WilsonJune 26, 2014
In what became the United States, servitude of people of the black African race existed…
Clyde WilsonJune 25, 2014
John Taylor (1753–1824) of Caroline County, Virginia, is the most important, profound, prophetic and neglected…
Clyde WilsonJune 19, 2014
Hermann Keyserling was an Austrian writer quite well-known internationally in the early 20th century for…
Clyde WilsonJune 19, 2014
"Nations are the wealth of mankind, its generalized personalities; the least among them has its…
Clyde WilsonJune 18, 2014
(I’ll Take My Stand 75th anniversary conference, Franklin, Tennessee) The Twelve Southerners have been justly…
Clyde WilsonJune 11, 2014
With the destructive evil of centralized power becoming every day more evident and 10th Amendment…
Clyde WilsonJune 2, 2014
(3rd in a 5-part series) Hollywood’s treatment of Southerners in the vast output of World…
Clyde WilsonMay 30, 2014
(3rd in a 5-part series) Hollywood’s treatment of Southerners in the vast output of World…
Clyde WilsonMay 30, 2014
In Part 1 we demonstrated how during Hollywood’s Golden Age nearly every Northern-born major star…
Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2014
In Part 1 we demonstrated how during Hollywood’s Golden Age nearly every Northern-born major star…
Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2014
Few actors in history have been hallowed in as many points of the political compass…
Clyde WilsonMay 23, 2014
Having passed my allotted three score and ten, I realise that I have spent too…
Clyde WilsonMay 16, 2014
(13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) We human beings are…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
The historians have put out another one of those ratings of Presidents – the great,…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
Equipped with an abundant knowledge of history, Michael Tuggle has cast a discerning eye on…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
T.R. Fehrenbach, author of the magisterial classic Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans,…
Clyde WilsonMay 7, 2014
In present day academia, one is guaranteed a celebrated career by inventing a new way…
Clyde WilsonApril 28, 2014
It had to happen. It was as inevitable as the sunrise, death, taxes, politicians’ lies,…
Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2014
Clyde Wilson discusses the real Thomas Jefferson and the importance of the Jeffersonian tradition. This…
Clyde WilsonApril 18, 2014
"To write from a people is to write a people---to make them live---to endow them…
Clyde WilsonApril 17, 2014
William Gilmore Simms was a consummate Southern man of letters, excelling equally in poetry, fiction,…
Clyde WilsonApril 17, 2014
Boston Residents Protesting Busing in 1974. Jonathan Kozol seems to be one of those innumerable…
Clyde WilsonApril 9, 2014
This lecture was delivered at the 1995 Ludvig von Mises seminar "Secession, State, and Economy"…
Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2014
When I first moved here, more than forty years ago, the county was mostly rural,…
Clyde WilsonApril 3, 2014
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