Blog President Grant’s Free Homes Although most modern biographies attribute the corruption in Grant’s Administration to venal advisors who…Philip LeighMay 26, 2022
Blog President Grant is Overrated A recent article in the politically conservative National Review about Ulysses Grant’s presidency by historian…Philip LeighMay 3, 2022
Blog Reconstruction Era Chicanery Postwar Southern reconstruction became corrupted when congressional Republicans took charge of it with the March…Philip LeighMarch 2, 2022
Blog When does the wisdom of crowds transition to the madness of crowds? Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal along with Tesla’s Elon Musk and an early Facebook…Philip LeighJanuary 6, 2022
Blog Who Are Confederate Monument Critics Really Targeting? The routine removal of Confederate statues signifies a new stage in the evolution of political…Philip LeighOctober 11, 2021
Blog The Truth About Tariffs and the War During the past thirty years most historians claim that slavery was the dominant cause of…Philip LeighAugust 13, 2021
Blog Was the Battle of Liberty Place a “Race Riot”? Although commonly portrayed as one of the largest mob attacks on blacks by white racists…Philip LeighJuly 22, 2021
Blog Robert E. Lee: Educator and Conciliator Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War.…Philip LeighApril 21, 2021
Blog The Postwar Lee at Washington College Robert E. Lee's tenure as President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) should…Philip LeighApril 15, 2021
Blog Robert E. Lee and (Woke General) Please Like Me Ty Seidule's mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters:…Philip LeighMarch 22, 2021
2019 Summer School: The New SouthConferences Don’t Remove Confederate Statutes Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:18:33 +0000 Philip Leigh Download MP3 Philip LeighFebruary 24, 2021
2019 Summer School: The New SouthConferences Southern Reconstruction: (1863-1950) Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:54:11 +0000 Philip Leigh Download MP3 Philip LeighFebruary 24, 2021
Blog A Good Reason to Honor Robert E. Lee Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated…Philip LeighJanuary 19, 2021
Blog The Yankee Quarantine of Southern Blacks Legendary financier J. P. Morgan once said: “A man always has two reasons for doing…Philip LeighJanuary 15, 2021
2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?Conferences The Postbellum South as an Exploited Colony From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
Blog The Postbellum South as an Exploited Colony From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
Blog The False Cause Narrative While watching a seventy-minute interview with Professor Adam Domby about his book, The False Cause, I was surprised…Philip LeighNovember 10, 2020
Blog The Real Reason for Confederate Monuments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08VtxFZlXKc&feature=youtu.bePhilip LeighSeptember 29, 2020
Blog They Were Not Traitors A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they…Philip LeighSeptember 16, 2020
Blog Idiotic Idioms Identity Politics is changing our language in order to advance its agenda. One example is…Philip LeighAugust 21, 2020
Blog Why No Confederate Supreme Court? The Confederacy never organized a Supreme Court because her founders generally interpreted the U. S. Constitution strictly.…Philip LeighMay 6, 2020
Review Posts Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee A review of The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee (Forge Books, 2006) by Thomas…Philip LeighApril 7, 2020
Blog All the Fake News That’s Fit to Print As explained yesterday, Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy maligned my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech presented on Lee-Jackson Day in…Philip LeighMarch 16, 2020
Blog The Washington Post Publishes Fake News On January 21st Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy wrote an article about my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech at the January18th…Philip LeighFebruary 10, 2020
Blog Something of Value An excerpt from North Carolina author Robert Ruark’s best known novel reads: “If a man…Philip LeighDecember 4, 2019
Blog Did Republicans Bribe Voters to Elect U. S. Grant President? Despite his unrivaled popularity after the Civil War, Republcan Ulysses Grant won the presidency merely…Philip LeighNovember 26, 2019
Blog Confederates Were Not Traitors Confederate statue critics increasingly argue that the monuments should be torn down because they honor…Philip LeighNovember 13, 2019
Blog Pointing out Neocon Errors Conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager has become a YouTube success with his five-minute videos…Philip LeighSeptember 27, 2019
Blog Who Won Reconstruction? Prager U and the American Battlefield Trust recently teamed-up to sponsor this six minute video by Princeton…Philip LeighSeptember 13, 2019
Blog Don’t Remove Confederate Monuments This essay was presented at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on the New South.…Philip LeighAugust 30, 2019
Blog Economic Reconstruction Mr. Leigh presented this paper at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on The New…Philip LeighAugust 5, 2019
Blog Confederate Monuments and Racism? As noted in earlier posts, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and many academic historians…Philip LeighJuly 26, 2019
Blog Civil War PC is Mental Imprisonment Each of us tends to be a prisoner of our own experience. In a World…Philip LeighJuly 4, 2019
Blog Carr Washing Silent Sam was a Confederate statue that stood on the University of North Carolina campus…Philip LeighJune 7, 2019
Blog What Did 19th Century Black Americans Think About Confederate Monuments? One argument used by those wanting to remove Confederate statues is that contemporary blacks had little…Philip LeighMay 31, 2019
Blog Nat Turner’s Massacre Apologists The Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Commission of the Virginia General Assembly announced that it will spend…Philip LeighMay 16, 2019
Blog Sins and Virtues of “Civil War” History History is remembered as a narrative, not facts and figures. If the story is told…Philip LeighApril 26, 2019
Blog Leave Confederate Statues Alone In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote: If the Civil War is more alive to…Philip LeighMarch 14, 2019
Blog Rescuing Old Joe Whoever weds himself to the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in…Philip LeighMarch 7, 2019
Blog Did Ulysses Grant Own and Rent Slaves? Even among the most Grant-partial historians there’s no denying that Ulysses Grant and his wife…Philip LeighFebruary 8, 2019
Blog The Washington Post March of Infamy Yesterday The Washington Post published an Op-Ed by former General Stanley McChrystal in which he boasted of…Philip LeighNovember 29, 2018
Blog When New Yorkers Cheered Dixie On October 31, 1910—seven years after the Wright Brother’s first airplane flight of less than…Philip LeighSeptember 7, 2018
Blog Causes of the “Civil War” In a PBS interview seven years ago historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust identified slavery…Philip LeighAugust 9, 2018
Blog Why the South Erected Confederate Statues The diagram below graphs the number of Confederate statues erected between 1870 and 1980. Since…Philip LeighJune 29, 2018
Blog Southern Cultural Genocide The quote below indirectly warns about the implications of Confederate statue removals and the…Philip LeighJune 11, 2018
Blog Okinawa Confederate Flag Five days ago I posted an article citing Eugene Sledge’s With the Old Breed that stated the first…Philip LeighApril 6, 2018
Blog Trump’s Aluminum Tariff: A Teachable Moment President Trump’s proposed ten-percent tariff on refined aluminum yields a teachable moment for Southern history…Philip LeighMarch 30, 2018
Blog States’ Rights Most modern historians reject any suggestion that the South fought the Civil War over states’…Philip LeighMarch 22, 2018
Blog “True Grit” as a Reconstruction Story Although labeled a Western, True Grit is also a novel about Reconstruction in Arkansas and the Indian…Philip LeighFebruary 19, 2018
Blog A Changing Reconstruction Narrative Those who have read his Count of Monte Cristo can readily appreciate the wisdom of Alexander Dumas…Philip LeighNovember 8, 2017
Blog A Black Advocate for Confederate Monuments Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article about eighty-eight year old Nelson Winbush who is a Florida black…Philip LeighOctober 23, 2017
Blog What Confederate Monument Critics May Not Know In 1958 a nearly forgotten thirty-four year old Texas author named William Humphrey debuted his…Philip LeighAugust 4, 2017
Blog Should Stanford University Change Its Name? Was California Governor and Senator Leland Stanford—founder of Stanford University—sufficiently racist to justify dropping his…Philip LeighJune 12, 2017
Blog Radical Republican Selective Racial Equality Most modern historians give the post Civil War Republican Party a free pass on racism.…Philip LeighMay 24, 2017
Blog Reconsidering Trump’s “Faux Pas” Despite nearly universal scolding in the mainstream media, President Trump’s suggestion that a compromise similar…Philip LeighMay 9, 2017
Blog Union Leagues The Union League is one of the most cryptic of Civil War and Reconstruction era topics…Philip LeighSeptember 29, 2016
Blog Secession Without Civil War Since most modern historians agree that the South seceded to protect slavery they often conclude…Philip LeighSeptember 2, 2016
Blog Confederate Memorial Hall and Jack Daniels In 1935 the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) constructed Confederate Memorial Hall as a…Philip LeighAugust 22, 2016
Blog Booker Washington’s Bucket Post Civil War racial adjustment was a problem Southerner whites didn’t want to face and…Philip LeighJuly 29, 2016
Blog Wikipedia Book Burning Editor's note: Mr. Leigh has published a new book titled The Confederacy at Flood Tide. …Philip LeighJune 24, 2016
Blog Southern Reparations Have Already Been Paid As the Sesquicentennial of Reconstruction progresses and the popular press debates whether slavery merits reparations,…Philip LeighMay 26, 2016
Blog “Contextualizing” American History Few, if any, currently prominent historians voice unqualified objection to the destruction of Confederate monuments.…Philip LeighMay 2, 2016
Blog Grant Gets the Votes It is no surprise to Civil War students that Ulysses Grant’s reputation has soared over…Philip LeighApril 18, 2016
Blog Lee’s Memory In the wake of growing hostility toward the Confederacy a New Orleans Robert E. Lee…Philip LeighApril 4, 2016
Blog The Untold Story of Reconstruction Widely praised for his 2009 Cotton and Race in the Making of America, author Gene…Philip LeighJanuary 15, 2016
Blog Civil War Arbitrage Wouldn’t it be great if an act of Congress enabled your federal government bonds to…Philip LeighJuly 31, 2015
Blog Righteous Cause Mythology From April to July of 1863 British Lieutenant Colonel Arthur J. L. Fremantle visited all…Philip LeighAugust 26, 2014
Blog The True Agenda of the 14th Amendment The month following Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox in April 1865, Andrew Johnson submitted…Philip LeighAugust 4, 2014
Blog Deconstructing Reconstruction The table below summarizes Federal Tax revenues and spending for twenty years following the Civil…Philip LeighJuly 23, 2014
Blog Centennial Wars Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Blog Centennial Wars Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
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