Revival of Secession Discourse in the United States
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Seventeenth Annual Summer School: The New South
TOPIC The War, Reconstruction, and the new status of the South as a conquered colony of the industrial North created something historians call the “New South.” The term suggests a radical break with the past.… »
The Southern Critique of Centralization
The Southern political tradition, in practice and theory, is one of its most valuable contributions to America and the world. The one constant theme of that tradition from 1776–through Jefferson, Madison, John Taylor, St George… »
What Does the Fracturing of the American Identity Mean for the Southern Tradition?
The Abbeville Institute conducted three conferences this year on the fracturing of American national identity and what means for the Southern tradition and the Southern people. The general public knows America is coming apart and… »
A Red and Blue Coalition?
On June 20, 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Crawford: “If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation … to a continuance in union, I have no hesitation in saying, ‘Let… »
The Revival of Secession and State Nullification
TOPIC: The secession of 15 states from the Soviet Union in 1991 was the greatest peaceful revolution in modern history. Secession and decentralist movements are firmly entrenched throughout Europe. Discourse of secession and state interposition… »
Modern Heresy
Essayist William Deresiewicz recently lamented that modern college students, and college life in general, have become “profoundly unintellectual.” The “snowflake” generation is the byproduct of educational institutionalization. Will this be on the test, and will… »
Sixteenth Annual Abbeville Institute Summer School
Southern Identity Through Music St Christopher Conference Center, July 15-20, 2018 Seabrook Island, South Carolina Music has been described as “the soul of the world embedded in sound.” Southern music exemplifies the traditions and culture… »
Student Experiences “Head-On Racism” at the University of South Carolina?
Tobias Lanz has been an adjunct professor of political science for some twenty years at the University of South Carolina. In a class of 200 students cell phones go off, and Lanz eases the interruption… »
