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German POWs and Civil Rights

By Tom Daniel

I have written here before about my beloved hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama.  Forgive me if you’ve read this before, but Tuskegee was unique among small rural Southern towns because of its large, well-educated, and fairly… »

  • Booker T. Washington
  • Civil Rights
  • Segregation
  • Southern Culture
  • Tom Daniel
  • World War II

A Look Into Our Future

By H.V. Traywick, Jr.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked? Ecclesiastes 7: 13 Scott Howard, in his book The Trans-gender Industrial Complex, says on pages 164-5: The so-called Enlightenment made man… »

  • H.V. Traywick
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

Power School Wisdom

By Averyell A. Kessler

During last week’s ice storm misery, I thought a lot about my southern upbringing and the good things I’ve received from my small, poor state with a jagged past and uncertain future. I received many… »

  • Averyell A. Kessler
  • Mississippi
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Tradition

The Lord Gives

By Travis Holt

It was a late night in Boone County, Arkansas when me and my newly married wife attended a party not far from our home in Lead Hill. The ol’ boy that invited us had built… »

  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Tradition
  • Travis Holt

Total War in Georgia

By Karen Stokes

In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the war in America, paid a visit to Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of the Confederacy. There he met with some… »

  • Karen Stokes
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

Racism and Reputation

By Rev. Larry Beane

Two terms that are tossed about with great liberality today are “racist” and “white supremacist.”  Like other words with specific definitions, such as “fascist” and “Nazi,” these labels are losing their specific social, economic, political,… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Larry Beane
  • Political Correctness
  • Racism
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

Don’t Watch This Film

By Clyde Wilson

“The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes.  2020. I have written a great deal on the Abbeville Institute site in the past  on the portrayal of the South in films. I… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Film
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

The Big Monochrome Picture

By John Marquardt

The principal character in Joyce Maynard’s 1992 novel “To Die For” said that if you look too closely at a black and white photograph, all you see are a series of black dots on a… »

  • 1619 Project
  • Johm Marquardt
  • Slavery
  • Thaddeus Wilber Tate
  • Virginia

The Death of the Museum of the Confederacy

By Valerie Protopapas

In May of 2008, I became embroiled in a situation that had developed with the former Museum of the Confederacy. Having received an e-mail sent to the membership from Director S. Waite Rawls asking for… »

  • Confederate Symbols
  • Museum of the Confederacy
  • Political Correctness
  • Valerie Protopapas

Secession’s Magic Numbers, Part One

By Terry Hulsey

A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard; ISBN: 978-0-14-312202-9, Penguin, September 25,… »

  • Book Review
  • Colin Woodard
  • Secession
  • Southern Culture
  • Terry Hulsey

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