By early January 1861, South Carolina had seceded from the Union and stood alone as…
Ryan WaltersAugust 9, 2022
Excerpt from Ryan Walters, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President (Abbeville Institute Press, 2021) While…
Ryan WaltersFebruary 2, 2022
From Ryan Walters, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President (Abbeville Institute Press, 2021). “Equal and…
Ryan WaltersJanuary 26, 2022
In the 1986 comedy film Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield’s character, Thornton Mellon, a wealthy,…
Ryan WaltersMay 20, 2021
The 2020 presidential election took a decided turn as it moved into the final six…
Ryan WaltersOctober 9, 2020
A review of The 14th Amendment and the Incorporation Doctrine by David Benner (Minneapolis: Life…
Ryan WaltersMay 22, 2018
Propaganda. It’s a well-known word defined as “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature,…
Ryan WaltersFebruary 16, 2018
A review of Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic by Paul C. Graham (Shotwell Publishing, 2017). In…
Ryan WaltersJanuary 23, 2018
As the old cliché goes, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” The phrase…
Ryan WaltersOctober 18, 2017
Recent years have seen a new revisionist theme emerge in the history of America’s two…
Ryan WaltersSeptember 4, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When historians discuss reasons for Southern secession,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 31, 2017
The South and its history are currently under assault, the most aggressive and far-reaching that…
Ryan WaltersJune 19, 2017
In a recent interview on Sirius XM, President Trump, now completely enthralled by Andrew Jackson,…
Ryan WaltersMay 2, 2017
Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…
Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” wrote Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway in 1775.…
Ryan WaltersDecember 5, 2016
What is true conservatism? That question, more than anything else, is the argument raging in…
Ryan WaltersOctober 18, 2016
In a recent Huffington Post video, director-turned-historian Gary Ross, of the film “Free State of…
Ryan WaltersAugust 8, 2016
Hollywood has struck again with another “Civil War” movie that, unsurprisingly as it may seem,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 12, 2016
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