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Who Owns America Now?

By John Devanny

From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on “Who Owns America?” October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.

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The Blundering Generations and the Crisis of Legitimacy

By John Devanny

Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in the seventeenth century is generously populated with examples: The English Civil War, Le Fronde I and II, The Thirty Years… »

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Who Owns America Now?

By John Devanny
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Who Owns America Today?

By John Devanny

The chief conflict in American history was and remains the conflict between the center and the periphery.  Geographically, this conflict plays out as a powerful antagonism between the large, urbanized, metropolitan areas of America and… »

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Pietas in the Era of Revolution

By John Devanny

Pietas, the most Roman of virtues, referred to the duty owed to one’s country, parents, kin, and ancestors.  It is from pietas that patriotism, not nationalism, springs forth.  It is a virtue once esteemed by… »

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Secession and Its Discontents

By John Devanny

The American story is a story of secession, or better still secessions.  The first permanent settlements of Europeans in North America were the result of a series of secessions from primarily the British Isles.  Religious… »

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Real Southern Sport

By John Devanny

A review of Maxcy Gregg’s Sporting Journals, 1842-1858 (Green Altar Books, 2019) Suzanne Parfitt Johnson, Editor. Foreword by James Everett Kibler, Jr. The exploration of everyday life in a given historical period is often based… »

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Poison Under the Wings

By John Devanny

The beginning of the American political order goes much further back than the Philadelphia Convention of 1787.  Political scientists and political theorists are understandably fixated on the Constitution and the convention that produced it.  Eric… »

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Southern Populism and the South’s Agrarian Identity

By John Devanny
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“Where the Grapes of Wrath Are Stored”: Reconstruction of Southern Religion: 1865-1930

By John Devanny
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