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Leave Confederate Statues Alone

By Philip Leigh

In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote: If the Civil War is more alive to the Southerner than the Northerner it is because all of the past is, and this is so because the Southerner has a… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness

Rescuing Old Joe

By Philip Leigh

Whoever weds himself to the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.    —   William Inge Few realize that Florida was so committed to The War Between the States… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Tradition

Did Ulysses Grant Own and Rent Slaves?

By Philip Leigh

Even among the most Grant-partial historians there’s no denying that Ulysses Grant and his wife owned slaves prior to the Civil War. In fact, “Ulysses Grant” is the correct answer to a crafty American history… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Slavery
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • War for Southern Independence

The Washington Post March of Infamy

By Philip Leigh

Yesterday The Washington Post published an Op-Ed by former General Stanley McChrystal in which he boasted of removing a long-displayed Robert E. Lee painting from his home to “send it on its way to a local landfill… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Stanley McChrystal
  • Ulysses S. Grant

When New Yorkers Cheered Dixie

By Philip Leigh

On October 31, 1910—seven years after the Wright Brother’s first airplane flight of less than a minute—seventy-five thousand spectators gathered at Belmont Park to watch a day of competition among pioneering aviators. Events culminated with… »

  • John Moisant
  • New South
  • Philip Leigh
  • Southern History
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Causes of the “Civil War”

By Philip Leigh

In a PBS interview seven years ago historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust identified slavery as the cause of the Civil War. “Historians are pretty united on the cause of the Civil War being slavery,”… »

  • Drew Gilpin Faust
  • Philip Leigh
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

Why the South Erected Confederate Statues

By Philip Leigh

The diagram below graphs the number of Confederate statues erected between 1870 and 1980. Since the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) compiled the data, they suggest the memorials were most frequently put in place during… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness

Southern Cultural Genocide

By Philip Leigh

  The quote below indirectly warns about the implications of Confederate statue removals and the censorship of Southern interpretations regarding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Kundera is presently a French novelist born in Brno when… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture

Okinawa Confederate Flag

By Philip Leigh

Five days ago I posted an article citing Eugene Sledge’s With the Old Breed that stated the first American flag to fly over the conquered Japanese fortress at Shuri Castle during the World War II battle of Okinawa… »

  • Confederate Flag
  • Eugene Sledge
  • New South
  • Philip Leigh
  • World War II
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Trump’s Aluminum Tariff: A Teachable Moment

By Philip Leigh

President Trump’s proposed ten-percent tariff on refined aluminum yields a teachable moment for Southern history students. Historical analysis of the industry reveals an echo of the Northern tariff policies that angered Southerners during much of… »

  • New South
  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction
  • Southern Industry

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