The routine removal of Confederate statues signifies a new stage in the evolution of political…
Philip LeighOctober 11, 2021
Although commonly portrayed as one of the largest mob attacks on blacks by white racists…
Philip LeighJuly 22, 2021
Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War.…
Philip LeighApril 21, 2021
Robert E. Lee's tenure as President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) should…
Philip LeighApril 15, 2021
Ty Seidule's mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters:…
Philip LeighMarch 22, 2021
Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated…
Philip LeighJanuary 19, 2021
Legendary financier J. P. Morgan once said: “A man always has two reasons for doing…
Philip LeighJanuary 15, 2021
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
While watching a seventy-minute interview with Professor Adam Domby about his book, The False Cause, I was surprised…
Philip LeighNovember 10, 2020
A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they…
Philip LeighSeptember 16, 2020
Identity Politics is changing our language in order to advance its agenda. One example is…
Philip LeighAugust 21, 2020
The Confederacy never organized a Supreme Court because her founders generally interpreted the U. S. Constitution strictly.…
Philip LeighMay 6, 2020
A review of The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee (Forge Books, 2006) by Thomas…
Philip LeighApril 7, 2020
As explained yesterday, Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy maligned my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech presented on Lee-Jackson Day in…
Philip LeighMarch 16, 2020
On January 21st Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy wrote an article about my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech at the January18th…
Philip LeighFebruary 10, 2020
An excerpt from North Carolina author Robert Ruark’s best known novel reads: “If a man…
Philip LeighDecember 4, 2019
Despite his unrivaled popularity after the Civil War, Republcan Ulysses Grant won the presidency merely…
Philip LeighNovember 26, 2019
Confederate statue critics increasingly argue that the monuments should be torn down because they honor…
Philip LeighNovember 13, 2019
Conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager has become a YouTube success with his five-minute videos…
Philip LeighSeptember 27, 2019
Prager U and the American Battlefield Trust recently teamed-up to sponsor this six minute video by Princeton…
Philip LeighSeptember 13, 2019
This essay was presented at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on the New South.…
Philip LeighAugust 30, 2019
Mr. Leigh presented this paper at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on The New…
Philip LeighAugust 5, 2019
As noted in earlier posts, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and many academic historians…
Philip LeighJuly 26, 2019
Silent Sam was a Confederate statue that stood on the University of North Carolina campus…
Philip LeighJune 7, 2019
One argument used by those wanting to remove Confederate statues is that contemporary blacks had little…
Philip LeighMay 31, 2019
The Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Commission of the Virginia General Assembly announced that it will spend…
Philip LeighMay 16, 2019
History is remembered as a narrative, not facts and figures. If the story is told…
Philip LeighApril 26, 2019
In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote: If the Civil War is more alive to…
Philip LeighMarch 14, 2019
Whoever weds himself to the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in…
Philip LeighMarch 7, 2019
Even among the most Grant-partial historians there’s no denying that Ulysses Grant and his wife…
Philip LeighFebruary 8, 2019
Yesterday The Washington Post published an Op-Ed by former General Stanley McChrystal in which he boasted of…
Philip LeighNovember 29, 2018
On October 31, 1910—seven years after the Wright Brother’s first airplane flight of less than…
Philip LeighSeptember 7, 2018
In a PBS interview seven years ago historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust identified slavery…
Philip LeighAugust 9, 2018
The diagram below graphs the number of Confederate statues erected between 1870 and 1980. Since…
Philip LeighJune 29, 2018
The quote below indirectly warns about the implications of Confederate statue removals and the…
Philip LeighJune 11, 2018
Five days ago I posted an article citing Eugene Sledge’s With the Old Breed that stated the first…
Philip LeighApril 6, 2018
President Trump’s proposed ten-percent tariff on refined aluminum yields a teachable moment for Southern history…
Philip LeighMarch 30, 2018
Most modern historians reject any suggestion that the South fought the Civil War over states’…
Philip LeighMarch 22, 2018
Although labeled a Western, True Grit is also a novel about Reconstruction in Arkansas and the Indian…
Philip LeighFebruary 19, 2018
Those who have read his Count of Monte Cristo can readily appreciate the wisdom of Alexander Dumas…
Philip LeighNovember 8, 2017
Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article about eighty-eight year old Nelson Winbush who is a Florida black…
Philip LeighOctober 23, 2017
In 1958 a nearly forgotten thirty-four year old Texas author named William Humphrey debuted his…
Philip LeighAugust 4, 2017
Was California Governor and Senator Leland Stanford—founder of Stanford University—sufficiently racist to justify dropping his…
Philip LeighJune 12, 2017
Most modern historians give the post Civil War Republican Party a free pass on racism.…
Philip LeighMay 24, 2017
Despite nearly universal scolding in the mainstream media, President Trump’s suggestion that a compromise similar…
Philip LeighMay 9, 2017
The Union League is one of the most cryptic of Civil War and Reconstruction era topics…
Philip LeighSeptember 29, 2016
Since most modern historians agree that the South seceded to protect slavery they often conclude…
Philip LeighSeptember 2, 2016
In 1935 the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) constructed Confederate Memorial Hall as a…
Philip LeighAugust 22, 2016
Post Civil War racial adjustment was a problem Southerner whites didn’t want to face and…
Philip LeighJuly 29, 2016
Editor's note: Mr. Leigh has published a new book titled The Confederacy at Flood Tide. …
Philip LeighJune 24, 2016
As the Sesquicentennial of Reconstruction progresses and the popular press debates whether slavery merits reparations,…
Philip LeighMay 26, 2016
Few, if any, currently prominent historians voice unqualified objection to the destruction of Confederate monuments.…
Philip LeighMay 2, 2016
It is no surprise to Civil War students that Ulysses Grant’s reputation has soared over…
Philip LeighApril 18, 2016
In the wake of growing hostility toward the Confederacy a New Orleans Robert E. Lee…
Philip LeighApril 4, 2016
Widely praised for his 2009 Cotton and Race in the Making of America, author Gene…
Philip LeighJanuary 15, 2016
Wouldn’t it be great if an act of Congress enabled your federal government bonds to…
Philip LeighJuly 31, 2015
From April to July of 1863 British Lieutenant Colonel Arthur J. L. Fremantle visited all…
Philip LeighAugust 26, 2014
The month following Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox in April 1865, Andrew Johnson submitted…
Philip LeighAugust 4, 2014
The table below summarizes Federal Tax revenues and spending for twenty years following the Civil…
Philip LeighJuly 23, 2014
Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…
Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…
Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
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