Blog Armistead Burt: A Friend to Jefferson Davis On a recent visit to Abbeville, South Carolina I visited the Burt-Stark House, one of…Thomas HubertMay 20, 2022
Blog The Lost Cause Reconsidered Once More On a website devoted to publishing scholarly articles, I did recently did a search…Thomas HubertFebruary 9, 2022
Blog Robert Drake and the Presence of the Past There are stories, and then there are stories within stories. This is one of the…Thomas HubertDecember 7, 2021
Blog “A Divinity That Shapes Our Ends”: Providence and the American War of 1861-1865 “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,/ Rough-hew them how we will.” - Hamlet V,…Thomas HubertNovember 22, 2021
Blog John Pelham and the “Myth of the Lost Cause” Some twenty years ago I had planned to write a full-length study of John Pelham—known…Thomas HubertJuly 7, 2021
Blog Virginia and Alabama Lexington, Virginia January 2002 Driving up, then down the mountain hairpins into Lexington,By daylight, moonlight,…Thomas HubertDecember 17, 2020
Blog Walker Percy’s Homage to Robert E. Lee The novelist Walker Percy was inescapably Southern by virtually any measure. Born May 28, 1916…Thomas HubertJanuary 27, 2020
Blog Allen Tate’s Confederate Ode: Who are the Living and the Dead? Then Lytle asked: Who are the dead? Who are the living and the dead? Allen Tate,…Thomas HubertJuly 24, 2019
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