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The Washington Post Publishes Fake News

By Philip Leigh

On January 21st Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy wrote an article about my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech at the January18th Lee-Jackson Day in Lexington, Virginia. His “Lee-Jackson Day with a bit of history and context” article portrays me unfairly. Today’s post responds… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Courtland Milloy
  • Philip Leigh
  • Washington Post

Something of Value

By Philip Leigh

An excerpt from North Carolina author Robert Ruark’s best known novel reads: “If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Robert Ruark
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Literature

Did Republicans Bribe Voters to Elect U. S. Grant President?

By Philip Leigh

Despite his unrivaled popularity after the Civil War, Republcan Ulysses Grant won the presidency merely three years later in 1868 by a popular vote margin of only 53%-to-47%. In fact, if not for the votes… »

  • Northern Studies
  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction
  • Republican Party
  • U.S. Grant

Confederates Were Not Traitors

By Philip Leigh

Confederate statue critics increasingly argue that the monuments should be torn down because they honor traitors. Among such advocates is Christy Coleman, CEO of the Richmond’s American Civil War Museum. While the most common response to her… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession
  • Treason
  • War for Southern Independence

Pointing out Neocon Errors

By Philip Leigh

Conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager has become a YouTube success with his five-minute videos on politics, history, religion and culture. They’ve been viewed 2.5 billion times and he gets thousands of emails daily. About… »

  • Dennis Prager
  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction

Who Won Reconstruction?

By Philip Leigh

Prager U and the American Battlefield Trust recently teamed-up to sponsor this six minute video by Princeton University’s Dr. Allen Guelzo who claims that “the North won the Civil War but the (white) South won Reconstruction.” The… »

  • Allen Guelzo
  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction

Don’t Remove Confederate Statutes

By Philip Leigh
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  • 2019 Summer School: The New South
  • Philip Leigh

Southern Reconstruction: (1863-1950)

By Philip Leigh
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  • 2019 Summer School: The New South
  • Philip Leigh

Don’t Remove Confederate Monuments

By Philip Leigh

This essay was presented at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on the New South. In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote: If the Civil War is more alive to the Southerner than the Northerner… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • New South
  • Philip Leigh

Economic Reconstruction

By Philip Leigh

Mr. Leigh presented this paper at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on The New South. Historians have reinterpreted Civil War Reconstruction over the past fifty years. Shortly before the Centennial it was commonly believed… »

  • New South
  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction

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