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A Good Reason to Honor Robert E. Lee

By Philip Leigh

Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated how he maintained dignity in defeat while convincing many resentful Southerners to reconcile with their former enemies. At the end… »

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The Yankee Quarantine of Southern Blacks

By Philip Leigh

Legendary financier J. P. Morgan once said: “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” His meaning is that our public explanation is a noble one whereas… »

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The Postbellum South as an Exploited Colony

By Philip Leigh

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

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The Postbellum South as An Exploited Colony

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The False Cause Narrative

By Philip Leigh

While watching a seventy-minute interview with Professor Adam Domby about his book, The False Cause, I was surprised at the number of errors, biased interpretations and even endorsement of “extralegal” conduct by anti-statue mobs. The False Cause focuses on Civil… »

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The Real Reason for Confederate Monuments

By Philip Leigh
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They Were Not Traitors

By Philip Leigh

A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they were traitors. It is a lie for two reasons. First, the Confederate states had no intent to overthrow the government… »

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Idiotic Idioms

By Philip Leigh

Identity Politics is changing our language in order to advance its agenda. One example is “people of color.” Hemingway would have convulsed at such a laborious construction. Does its nearly Global use today  suggest  that… »

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Why No Confederate Supreme Court?

By Philip Leigh

The Confederacy never organized a Supreme Court because her founders generally interpreted the U. S. Constitution strictly. Over the years they had seen that the U. S. Supreme Court tended to make rulings, and assume jurisdictions, that… »

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Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee

By Philip Leigh

A review of The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee (Forge Books, 2006) by Thomas Fleming Fleming uses this 2006 fictional courtroom drama to formulate arguments for his 2013 Disease in the Public Mind non-fiction book identifying… »

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