BlogReview Posts Blacks in Gray A Review of Blacks in Gray Uniforms (Arcadia, 2018) by Phillip Thomas Tucker South Carolina…Karen StokesMay 18, 2022
Blog South Carolina in 1865 There is nothing new under the sun, but there are things which have lain undiscovered,…Karen StokesFebruary 23, 2022
Blog Southern Orthodoxy A review of Preachers with Power: Four Stalwarts of the South (Banner of Truth, 1992)…Karen StokesMay 4, 2021
Blog Our Other Man in Charleston Published in 2016, the book Our Man in Charleston tells the story of Robert Bunch…Karen StokesMarch 25, 2021
Blog Total War in Georgia In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the…Karen StokesMarch 2, 2021
2016 Summer School: The Southern Tradition and the Renewal of AmericaConferences Frederick A. Porcher and the Conversation Club of Charleston Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:21:32 +0000 Karen Stokes Download MP3 Karen StokesFebruary 24, 2021
2014 Summer School: The War for Southern IndependenceConferences Two Citizenships: The South as a Christian Civilization By Karen Stokes Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:14:01 +0000 Karen Stokes Download MP3 Karen StokesFebruary 24, 2021
2011 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature IIConferences A Window into the Old South: South Carolina Diaries and Letters by Karen Stokes Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:37:22 +0000 Karen Stokes Download MP3 Karen StokesFebruary 24, 2021
2011 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature IIConferences The Political Economy and Social Thought of Louisa S. McCord by Karen Stokes Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:36:14 +0000 Karen Stokes Download MP3 Karen StokesFebruary 24, 2021
Blog A Night to Remember The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack…Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2021
Blog A [r]epublican in Exile In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met…Karen StokesNovember 5, 2020
Blog A Forgotten Spiritual Hero Daniel Baker (1791-1857) is all but forgotten today, but in the first half of the…Karen StokesMarch 11, 2020
Blog The South’s Gifts to Posterity What does the South have to offer that is valuable to humanity, to civilization? In…Karen StokesSeptember 25, 2019
Blog We the People of South Carolina…. William Plumer Jacobs (1842-1917), a native of Yorkville, South Carolina, was a Presbyterian minister and…Karen StokesDecember 20, 2018
Blog The Spirit of ’61 The bloody conflict of 1861 to 1865 is often called the Civil War, but most…Karen StokesJuly 4, 2018
Blog A Bloodless Victory Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, is known as the place where the “Civil War”…Karen StokesApril 16, 2018
Blog Northern Lies about the Burning of Columbia When you hear or read about the burning of Columbia, General Sherman’s principal target in…Karen StokesFebruary 15, 2018
Blog The Timely Wisdom of Robert Lewis Dabney Many of the destructive ideas and “isms” of our century in America had their roots…Karen StokesMarch 13, 2017
Blog Union or Else In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer that the “false…Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2017
Review Posts The Conversation Club of Charleston This essay was presented at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When I was young…Karen StokesDecember 21, 2016
Blog A Southern Saint William Porcher DuBose of South Carolina is not well known today, but in the early…Karen StokesDecember 15, 2016
Blog More Secession Theology: Thomas Smyth of Charleston Lately there has been mention of Dr. Thomas Smyth in two Abbeville Institute blog and…Karen StokesJune 23, 2016
Blog “Don’t Leave Me Here to Bleed to Death!” The most recent issue of Hallowed Ground, a publication of the Civil War Trust, features…Karen StokesMay 11, 2016
Blog Sherman’s Army in North Carolina Some historians have suggested that General William T. Sherman's terror campaign through the deep South…Karen StokesApril 14, 2016
Blog Reconstruction in South Carolina In 1872, Daniel W. Voorhees, a Congressman of Indiana, made a speech in the U.S.…Karen StokesFebruary 8, 2016
Review Posts The Immortals THE IMMORTALS: A STORY OF LOVE AND WAR In 1861, as a deadly conflict looms…Karen StokesDecember 29, 2015
Blog A Tale of Two Plantations In the 1850s, Ann Pamela Cunningham, a frail woman from South Carolina, was responsible for…Karen StokesDecember 21, 2015
Blog The Queen City Humbled In 1865, a writer for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine described Charleston, South Carolina, contrasting her…Karen StokesOctober 23, 2015
Review Posts Destruction of the City of Columbia, South Carolina: A Poem by a Lady of Georgia. A True Statement of Facts. About the author: Elizabeth Otis Marshall Dannelly (1838-1896), a native of Madison, Georgia, was a…Karen StokesSeptember 15, 2015
Blog The “Hawaiian Prophet” from South Carolina South Carolina is not known for great surfing, but a native son named Alexander Hume…Karen StokesJuly 16, 2015
Blog A Lady Champion of Free Trade In her famous diary, Mary Chesnut called Mrs. Louisa S. McCord “the very cleverest woman”…Karen StokesJune 19, 2015
Blog Agony at Appomattox Promoted over four senior captains just a few days shy of his nineteenth birthday, James…Karen StokesApril 9, 2015
Blog John Mitchel: Irish Confederate John Mitchel (1815-1875) was a fiery Irish nationalist who was convicted of treason by the…Karen StokesMarch 17, 2015
Blog February 1865: The Invasion Continues On February 5, 1865, the last of General Sherman’s troops crossed the Savannah River into…Karen StokesFebruary 16, 2015
Blog The Invasion Begins By mid- January 1865, General Sherman’s campaign in South Carolina had begun in earnest. Some…Karen StokesJanuary 30, 2015
Blog The Cruel Winter of 1865 in South Carolina January 2015 ushers in the last year of the sesquicentennial of the War for Southern…Karen StokesJanuary 7, 2015
Blog The Lady Who Saved Mount Vernon Born in 1816, Ann Pamela Cunningham was raised at Rosemont, a plantation on the Saluda…Karen StokesDecember 18, 2014
Blog Conduct of the Northern Army Lately, media outlets have been giving some attention to the 150th anniversary of General William…Karen StokesNovember 28, 2014
Blog Our Danger and Our Duty Acclaimed in his time as the “Calhoun of the Church,” James Henley Thornwell was a…Karen StokesNovember 11, 2014
Blog Siege of Spite By October 1864, the city of Charleston, South Carolina had been undergoing a bombardment for…Karen StokesOctober 23, 2014
Blog The Crime of William Dougherty During the War Between the States, thousands of Americans were incarcerated for political reasons in…Karen StokesOctober 7, 2014
Blog Hell At Pea Patch Island After the War Between the States began, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas…Karen StokesSeptember 19, 2014
Blog The Immortal 600 Because of the 1989 movie Glory, many Americans know of the battle on Morris Island…Karen StokesAugust 29, 2014
Blog Miss Pinckney’s Constitutional Catechism Maria Henrietta Pinckney (1782-1836) of South Carolina was the daughter of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,…Karen StokesAugust 22, 2014
Blog Why the South Seceded Writing in 1913, historian Nathaniel Wright Stephenson explained the political situation in America thus: “It…Karen StokesAugust 5, 2014
Blog Why Vicksburg Canceled the Fourth of July – For a Generation From May through early July 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi, a strategically important city on the Mississippi…Karen StokesJuly 2, 2014
Blog “I cannot fight against the Constitution while pretending to fight for it.” During the time of the secession of South Carolina and other Southern states, and after…Karen StokesJune 9, 2014
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