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Secession Becomes Thinkable

By Donald Livingston

A review of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020) by F.H. Buckley When asked whether a state can constitutionally secede from the United States, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brushed… »

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Who Owns America? October 16-17, 2020

By Donald Livingston

TOPIC: “WHO OWNS AMERICA?” The classic manifesto I’ll Take My Stand by Twelve Southerners is 90 years old this year, 2020. When the book was published in 1930 the Depression raged, and American discourse was… »

  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?

(EVENT CANCELED) Eighteenth Annual Summer School: Recovering What is Valuable in the Southern Tradition

By Donald Livingston

DUE TO THE COVID-19 AND OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, WE HAVE DECIDED TO CANCEL THE 2020 SUMMER SCHOOL   ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOL “Recovering What is Valuable in the Southern Tradition”… »

  • 2020 Summer School: Recovering What is Valuable in the Southern Tradition

The Culture War Continues

By Donald Livingston

The culture war rages on. And what a war! There seems to be a new outrage almost every day. “Make it Right,” a New York organization dedicated to hunting down and removing all Confederate monuments… »

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Revival of Secession Discourse in the United States

By Donald Livingston
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  • 2018 Scholars Conference: The Revival of Secession and State Nullification
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Seventeenth Annual Summer School: The New South

By Donald Livingston

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.… »

  • 2019 Summer School: The New South

The Southern Critique of Centralization

By Donald Livingston

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… »

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What Does the Fracturing of the American Identity Mean for the Southern Tradition?

By Donald Livingston

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… »

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A Red and Blue Coalition?

By Donald Livingston

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… »

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The Revival of Secession and State Nullification

By Donald Livingston

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… »

  • 2018 Scholars Conference: The Revival of Secession and State Nullification

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