Blog Neo-Abolitionist Historiography From our 2008 Summer School, Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric In some respects, the title of…John DevannyMarch 31, 2022
BlogReview Posts What We Have to Expect A review of How Radical Republican Antislavery Rhetoric and Violence Precipitated Secession, October 1859 -…John DevannyFebruary 15, 2022
Blog Remembering John C. Calhoun Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated…John DevannyOctober 26, 2021
2019 Summer School: The New SouthConferences "Where the Grapes of Wrath Are Stored”: Reconstruction of Southern Religion: 1865-1930 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:56:24 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2019 Summer School: The New SouthConferences Southern Populism and the South’s Agrarian Identity Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:11:05 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2011 Scholars Conference: The South and America’s WarsConferences John Randolph versus the War Hawks by John Devanny Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:53:53 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2011 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature IIConferences John Taylor: Agrarian Prophet by John Devanny Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:33:26 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2009 Summer School: The Meaning and Legacy of ReconstructionConferences The Economic Cost of Reconstruction by John Devanny Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:21:47 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2009 Summer School: The Meaning and Legacy of ReconstructionConferences The Human Cost of Reconstruction by John Devanny Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:22:53 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2008 Summer School: Northern Anti-Slavery RhetoricConferences Post-60’s Neo-Abolitionist Historiography by John Devanny Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:15:44 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2008 Summer School: Northern Anti-Slavery RhetoricConferences The Aims of Anti-Slavery in the Missouri Compromise by John Devanny Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:18:11 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2004 Summer School: The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism: 1798-1861Conferences The Federalist Crucible and the Renascence of the Jeffersonian Program by John Devanny Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:33:41 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
2004 Summer School: The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism: 1798-1861Conferences The Origins of the Jeffersonian Economic Program by John Devanny Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:35:35 +0000 John Devanny Download MP3 John DevannyFebruary 24, 2021
Blog What Can Be Done? The year 2020 was brutal for the friends of the South. Monuments and statues of…John DevannyFebruary 3, 2021
2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?Conferences Who Owns America Now? From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…John DevannyDecember 28, 2020
Blog Who Owns America Now? From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…John DevannyDecember 28, 2020
Blog The Blundering Generations and the Crisis of Legitimacy Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in…John DevannyDecember 18, 2020
Blog Who Owns America Today? The chief conflict in American history was and remains the conflict between the center and…John DevannyNovember 23, 2020
Blog Pietas in the Era of Revolution Pietas, the most Roman of virtues, referred to the duty owed to one’s country, parents,…John DevannyJuly 13, 2020
Blog Secession and Its Discontents The American story is a story of secession, or better still secessions. The first permanent…John DevannyFebruary 12, 2020
Review Posts Real Southern Sport A review of Maxcy Gregg’s Sporting Journals, 1842-1858 (Green Altar Books, 2019) Suzanne Parfitt Johnson,…John DevannyDecember 10, 2019
Blog Poison Under the Wings The beginning of the American political order goes much further back than the Philadelphia Convention…John DevannyNovember 20, 2019
Blog Southern Populism and the South’s Agrarian Identity In what passes for political and cultural discourse today, the term “populist” is something of…John DevannySeptember 2, 2019
Blog Where the Grapes of Wrath are Stored This essay was presented at our 2019 Summer School on the New South. Fundamentalism is…John DevannyAugust 14, 2019
Blog The Limits of a Politics of Tolerance Secession, nullification, and interposition, like the poor, we shall always have with us. These are…John DevannyJune 10, 2019
Blog John Randolph of Roanoke and the Formation of a Southern Conservatism One of the great issues of American political history is whether an authentic American conservatism…John DevannyMay 13, 2019
Blog Modern Monetary Theory: A Jeffersonian Critique The chattering class’ newest obsession, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has seized the policy initiative from the Democratic…John DevannyMarch 4, 2019
Blog Contested Ground: Southern Identity and the Southern Tradition In the popular imagination the South is viewed as a region typified by racism, poverty,…John DevannyFebruary 18, 2019
Blog Hamilton on Steroids “The revenue of the state is the state.” Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution…John DevannyFebruary 7, 2019
Review Posts Catholics’ Lost Cause A review of Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861 (University…John DevannyJanuary 15, 2019
Blog The Neo-Puritan War on Christmas “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” – H. L. Mencken “Let…John DevannyDecember 19, 2018
Review Posts From Founding Fathers to Fire Eaters A review of From Founding Fathers to Fire-Eaters: The Constitutional Doctrine of States’ Rights in…John DevannyOctober 30, 2018
Blog Justice Kavanaugh and the Triumph of Symbol over Reality “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Attributed to Mark Twain Americans at…John DevannyOctober 17, 2018
Blog Rhetoric, Reality, and the Late Unpleasantness The 1850s is viewed by most scholars as the crucial decade of the sectional crisis…John DevannySeptember 24, 2018
Review Posts A Society With Slaves A review Slave and Free on Virginia’s Eastern Shore by Kirk Mariner (Onancok, VA: Miona Publications, 2014).…John DevannyAugust 21, 2018
Blog The Late Unpleasantness: Memory, Meaning and Understanding The War Between the States is called by many names, the most genteel being “The…John DevannyJuly 27, 2018
Review Posts Zombies No More: Secession, Nullification, and the Academy A review of Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought. Sanford Levinson, ed. Lawrence, KS:…John DevannyApril 17, 2018
Blog Sectionalism Returns Recently Michael S. Greve of George Mason University Law School wrote an insightful article which…John DevannyJanuary 29, 2018
Review Posts Lincoln vs. Davis A review of Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (Lawrence, KS: University…John DevannyOctober 31, 2017
Blog A People Without Honor Back in my days as a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, I…John DevannyOctober 13, 2017
Blog Southern Identity and the Southern Tradition In the popular imagination the South is viewed as a region typified by racism, poverty,…John DevannyJuly 5, 2017
Blog Yankee Finance Capitalism Part III: The Creature from Jekyll Island The endurance of the system of Jeffersonian finance based upon the Independent Treasury system was…John DevannyJune 16, 2017
Blog Yankee Finance Capitalism Part II: The Jeffersonian Triumph “The revenue of the state is the state.” Edmund Burke The rise of the modern…John DevannyJune 9, 2017
Blog Yankee Finance Capitalism Made Simple Part One: Definitions and Origins Money is a great mystery. In my years of teaching…John DevannyJune 2, 2017
Blog Jefferson the Man Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America. Kevin R. C. Gutzman (New York:…John DevannyMarch 20, 2017
Blog Tidewater Wit and Wisdom An honest man can never be outdone in courtesy. A sensual life is a miserable…John DevannyFebruary 6, 2017
Blog Musings of a Southern Antifederalist on the Presidential Election The one consolation of the Antifederalist persuasion is telling everyone you meet “I told you…John DevannyJuly 8, 2016
Blog The South: Land of Heavyweight Boxing Champions The South in the twentieth century has embraced any number of northern athletic imports and…John DevannyJuly 1, 2016
Blog Secession of the Heart A dear friend of mine, a Harp like myself but born and raised in the…John DevannyMay 6, 2016
Blog Vale Res Publica Once again, it is politicking time in the good ol’ US of A. The Democrats,…John DevannyMarch 24, 2016
Blog Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee betrayed the literary establishment and many of her readers with the recent publication…John DevannyJanuary 11, 2016
Blog The Last Southern Democrat “Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat, They oughta get a rich man to vote…John DevannyOctober 19, 2015
Blog M.R. Ducks Years ago I was introduced to my wife’s grandmother. This small but formidable woman lived…John DevannySeptember 7, 2015
Blog The Flag Controversy: We Did It To Ourselves Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain must think, and hide the…John DevannyJune 26, 2015
Blog The Prophetic Sage of Roanoke There is no more singular statesman or person in the history of American politics than…John DevannyJune 2, 2015
Blog “…The Patriotic Gore, That Flecked the Streets of Baltimore?”: Musings on the Baltimore Riot by a Native Son The recent riots in Baltimore gave most Americans pause as they struggled to make sense…John DevannyMay 15, 2015
Blog Tommy, We Hardly Knew Ye Mr. Jefferson is quite passé these days, but ‘twas not always so. When I was…John DevannyApril 16, 2015
Blog Guns, Yankees, and Such The antipathy of many urbanites who reside in Greater New England (think Old New England…John DevannyMarch 6, 2015
Blog How ‘bout a Little Bourbon with Your Philosophy? What exactly makes the South, the South? Hosts of scholars have puzzled mightily over this…John DevannyFebruary 26, 2015
Blog Gentleman Bob and the Decline of the South Coal miners have their canaries; we have colinus virginiánus, the bobwhite quail. Like the canary…John DevannyFebruary 9, 2015
Blog All Slavery, All the Time* *Apologies to Jon White from whom I sole the title for this piece. Invariably, any…John DevannyNovember 12, 2014
Blog Football and the South Are you ready? Hell yea! Damn right! Hotty Toddy, gosh almighty, Who the hell are…John DevannyOctober 20, 2014
Blog Fall Planting The fall vegetable garden is a delight in the Mid-South. The greens and reds are…John DevannySeptember 5, 2014
Blog Musings on Dislocation Dislocation brings with it a multiplicity of dissonance. Moving disrupts the consonance of time and…John DevannyJuly 17, 2014
Blog Getting Right with Mr. Hamilton? “…the borrower is servant to him that lendeth” (Proverbs 22:7) “There is an elegant memorial…John DevannyApril 6, 2014
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