It is not the purpose of this article to set forth any new discovery, nor…
William Robertson GarrettOctober 15, 2021
When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won…
Sam FrancisOctober 13, 2021
This essay was originally published in the August 1995 issue of Chronicles magazine. Some folks…
John Shelton ReedOctober 12, 2021
The routine removal of Confederate statues signifies a new stage in the evolution of political…
Philip LeighOctober 11, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 4-8, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Wokism,…
Brion McClanahanOctober 9, 2021
“Aggressive abroad and despotic at home.” --Robert E. Lee The empire Lincoln built is on…
Thomas RileyOctober 8, 2021
The locusts descend upon the land. Not the literal ones, but a kind much worse,…
Travis HoltOctober 7, 2021
The latest major study issued by a blue-ribbon commission on racism infecting American culture comes…
Boyd CatheyOctober 5, 2021
Thomas Carlyle said that it takes men of worth to recognize worth in men (1).…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.October 4, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 27 - Oct 1, 2021 Topics:…
Brion McClanahanOctober 2, 2021
The following is an excerpt from an article by a man named Troy Cauley. It…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 1, 2021
I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised. After all it was completely logical, the inevitable…
Boyd CatheySeptember 29, 2021
Who has not heard of Wounded Knee? Most know at least the general facts surrounding…
Valerie ProtopapasSeptember 28, 2021
My wife, Elizabeth, comes from a village called Greenwich in northern New York state. Among…
Barton CockeySeptember 27, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, September 20-24, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 25, 2021
A lot has happened in the last 20 years. Reflecting on the terrorist attack on…
Lola SanchezSeptember 24, 2021
We’ve all heard some cliché joke about ‘voices in our head’, usually posted over and…
Travis HoltSeptember 23, 2021
In a significant departure for this series, the 9th installment of What Makes This Musician…
Tom DanielSeptember 22, 2021
Perhaps it was after watching yet another film depicting the South as irredeemably backwards and…
Casey ChalkSeptember 21, 2021
Regarding Afghanistan. There is nothing to say that has not been said better by those,…
Enoch CadeSeptember 20, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Sept 13-17, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 18, 2021
The numerous declarations among "right-wing" websites, blogs, and print publications usually present a conundrum of…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 17, 2021
Conditions and Limitations of Southern Educational Efforts. In the discussion of educational interests and educational…
Robert Burwell FultonSeptember 16, 2021
Freddy Fender? You mean that Mexican fella? No, I mean the Southern musical pioneer from…
Tom DanielSeptember 15, 2021
This piece was originally published in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 1914. Replies…
James Barron HopeSeptember 13, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Sep 6-10, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 11, 2021
The court historian is as old as history itself. Early states were based on the…
Jason MorganSeptember 10, 2021
Biblical history tells us that Abrahamic monotheism, the foundation of not only Judaism but Christianity…
John MarquardtSeptember 9, 2021
As I talk to people about American music and Southern music, I’ve noticed that many…
Tom DanielSeptember 8, 2021
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…
Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 30 - September 3, 2021 Topics:…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 4, 2021
Editor's note: The following story was told by "Private" John Allen, a Congressmen from Mississippi…
John M. AllenSeptember 3, 2021
THOMAS JEFFERSON TO ROGER C. WEIGHTMAN MONTICELLO, June 24, 1826. RESPECTED SIR: The kind invitation…
Thomas JeffersonSeptember 2, 2021
L. Q. C. LAMAR TO THE VICKSBURG COMMITTEE OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 5, 1870. To Col.…
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus LamarSeptember 1, 2021
The sixth Southern musician to be examined in this series of What Makes This Musician…
Tom DanielAugust 31, 2021
Originally published in the March 1998 issue of Reason magazine. Local busybodies target the front…
John Shelton ReedAugust 30, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 23-27, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanAugust 28, 2021
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses…
Michael R. BradleyAugust 27, 2021
The modern academic narrative says that the South’s purpose in secession and war was to…
Rod O'BarrAugust 26, 2021
In this fifth installment of the series “What Makes This Musician Great,” we will travel…
Tom DanielAugust 25, 2021
Americans have a weird relationship with their roots. Most folk want to be from somewhere,…
Casey ChalkAugust 23, 2021
Esteem you for your genius? Just a little— But most of all your people loved…
Thomas RileyAugust 20, 2021
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of…
Valerie ProtopapasAugust 19, 2021
The opponents of Southern heritage often repeat the trope: “You lost, get over it.” One…
Rev. Larry BeaneAugust 17, 2021
Growing up in mostly-rural North Carolina, most of my friends and especially their parents could…
Boyd CatheyAugust 16, 2021
During the past thirty years most historians claim that slavery was the dominant cause of…
Philip LeighAugust 13, 2021
That Southern secession was ultimately about independence with or without slavery is easily determined by…
Rod O'BarrAugust 12, 2021
In this third installment of the series “What Makes this Musician Great,” I will try…
Tom DanielAugust 11, 2021
The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2-17) are the creed of both Christians…
John MarquardtAugust 9, 2021
My heart bled along the Waccamaw, where ancient warriors reigned. I wonder if their spirits…
Demetrius Garland BowmanAugust 6, 2021
This essay was originally published in the February 1936 issue of The American Review. Years…
Frank L. OwlsleyAugust 5, 2021
This is the second installment of the series ‘What Makes this Musician Great,” and will…
Tom DanielAugust 4, 2021
Editor's Note: In an effort to "explore what is true and valuable in the Southern…
Robert Y. DrakeAugust 3, 2021
I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2021
At the top of the hill where my great-grandparents lived, there was a dusty, black…
Travis HoltJuly 30, 2021
Daniel Webster was one of the most notable Northern statesmen of his day. He was…
Rod O'BarrJuly 29, 2021
John Taylor was born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1750, one year before James Madison,…
Gaillard HuntJuly 28, 2021
Recently, I started looking into the connections between musical preferences and personality types. In the…
Tom DanielJuly 27, 2021
“Who's your people?” Though now somewhat rare, one still hears that question in Dixie, usually…
Casey ChalkJuly 26, 2021
Their carven words all testify Of then and now and future time That these were…
James Everett KiblerJuly 23, 2021
Although commonly portrayed as one of the largest mob attacks on blacks by white racists…
Philip LeighJuly 22, 2021
It is maddening to listen to people who attempt “conservative thought” with but a shallow…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 21, 2021
If timid and pacified Southerners needed more proof that we are a defeated and occupied…
James Ronald KennedyJuly 20, 2021
Many Southerners are familiar with James “Ron” Kennedy and his brother, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, who…
Boyd CatheyJuly 19, 2021
“To those who are ignorant of the jurisprudence of their country can have no taste…
Justin PedersonJuly 16, 2021
With the onset of the latest leftist government regime, many Americans are migrating South to…
Leslie AlexanderJuly 15, 2021
The date of the latest federal holiday, June 19th, was touted as the one marking…
John MarquardtJuly 14, 2021
Hit mus’ be now de kingdom comin’, an’ de year ob Jubilo! ... (1) "Liberty,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.July 13, 2021
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as…
Enoch CadeJuly 12, 2021
I have been studying the War Between the States for 53 years. In all those…
Timothy A. DuskinJuly 8, 2021
Some twenty years ago I had planned to write a full-length study of John Pelham—known…
Thomas HubertJuly 7, 2021
The "ultimate cause" of the War of Secession was two mutually exclusive understanding of government.…
Valerie ProtopapasJuly 6, 2021
July 4, “Independence Day,” has become for most Americans little more than another holiday, a…
Boyd CatheyJuly 5, 2021
The solution offered by Mr Vivek Ramaswamy to the destructive ideology of the Woke Social…
Walt GarlingtonJuly 2, 2021
The Southern version of Thoreau’s Walden may be considered I’ll Take by Stand, by Twelve…
Charles Stewart Roberts, MDJuly 1, 2021
In past columns I have written about some classic films, some of which have been…
Boyd CatheyJune 30, 2021
Facebook canceled the Abbeville Institute. I was notified on June 10 that the Abbeville Institute…
Brion McClanahanJune 28, 2021
We all, as we go through life, encounter people that who deserve to be remembered.…
Travis HoltJune 25, 2021
While the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has also wreaked havoc throughout the South, there was…
John MarquardtJune 24, 2021
“The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised,”…
Casey ChalkJune 23, 2021
God’s guidance and blessing began in Virginia. But Civil War is where we are today.…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 22, 2021
As most Americans have learned by now, in their rush to do something politically correct,…
Samuel AshwoodJune 21, 2021
Sometimes readers will ask me: “Why did you write on that? What were you trying to…
Boyd CatheyJune 17, 2021
On June 1, 2021, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) – historic, meritocratic, renowned for rigor…
Forrest L. MarionJune 16, 2021
A review of Rebirthing Lincoln, A Biography (Southern Books, 2021) by Howard Ray White I…
Clyde WilsonJune 15, 2021
Original in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. First some context. The South did…
Rod O'BarrJune 11, 2021
A review of The Retribution Conspiracy: The Rise of the Confederate Secret Service (Scuppernong Press,…
James Ronald KennedyJune 10, 2021
The Federalist online magazine has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost…
Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2021
I once wrote an article on the problems arising from what I termed “group condemnation.”…
Valerie ProtopapasJune 8, 2021
As Memorial Day approaches, I am thinking of a man I never met. His name…
Averyell A. KesslerJune 7, 2021
Nearly two weeks ago, five counties in Oregon voted to approve a measure to secede…
Cole BranhamJune 4, 2021
And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crimeAre pronest to it, and impute themselves…Tennyson,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 3, 2021
One of my colleagues in the ministry of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS)…
Rev. Larry BeaneJune 2, 2021
Reviewers are unrelenting in their praise for the new Amazon streaming television series The Underground…
Casey ChalkMay 31, 2021
“How time changes everything.” This quote came from the lips of a fairly surprised man…
Travis HoltMay 28, 2021
Why bother with opening the schools, if all that you’ll have is the same uneducated…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 27, 2021
While Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation Theology are 20th century creations, the cultural and…
James (Jim) PedersonMay 26, 2021
Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…
Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…
Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
For Christmas, I gave my granddaughter a compilation of Eudora Welty’s novels. She’s an avid…
Averyell A. KesslerMay 21, 2021
In the 1986 comedy film Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield’s character, Thornton Mellon, a wealthy,…
Ryan WaltersMay 20, 2021
Originally posted at LewRockwell.com You may remember a meme circulating widely after the U.S. presidential…
Jo Ann CavalloMay 19, 2021
As the “Exceptional Nation” totters and pratfalls further toward perdition, some on what is commonly,…
Enoch CadeMay 17, 2021
During the ongoing debate regarding the removal of the monuments honoring Confederate Generals, those in…
Prioleau AlexanderMay 14, 2021
Over half a century before the Imperial German Navy launched its new and deadly method…
John MarquardtMay 13, 2021
Continued from Part 3. “And of all the officers or men whom I ever knew he…
Earl StarbuckMay 12, 2021
In the early 1870s, a young pre-law student at Howard College was inspired by classmate…
James W. Whitehead VMay 11, 2021
After the end of the War Between the States, the Union army established the District…
Timothy A. DuskinMay 10, 2021
In 1960, the great Southern political philosopher Richard Weaver penned an essay titled “Conservatism and…
Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2021
Continued from Part 2. “He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a…
Earl StarbuckMay 5, 2021
A review of Preachers with Power: Four Stalwarts of the South (Banner of Truth, 1992)…
Karen StokesMay 4, 2021
Abraham Lincoln has become, for most mainline conservatives, an icon, and, along with Martin Luther…
Boyd CatheyMay 3, 2021
Written in the Year 2021 Hampton, our stalwart Wade, As wily as Odysseus in warAs…
James Everett KiblerApril 30, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the political left into an apoplectic rage two weeks ago when…
Brion McClanahanApril 29, 2021
Continued from Part I. “He was a superb specimen of manly grace and elegance…There was…
Earl StarbuckApril 28, 2021
Daybreak in Dixie: Poems of the Confederacy by Linda Lee. Privately published, 2019. For those…
Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2021
On April 14, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden announced that, beginning May 1, the United…
Jason MorganApril 26, 2021
Ah! My Lord Arthur, whither shall I go?Where shall I hide my forehead and my…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 23, 2021
In the Year of Our Lord 2021, it is fashionable for American Christians to despise…
Earl StarbuckApril 22, 2021
Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War.…
Philip LeighApril 21, 2021
Like many traditional-minded people of this era, I have become disenchanted with products of the…
Anne Wilson SmithApril 20, 2021
Our “conservative” punditry go forth daily in what seems increasingly to be an already lost…
Boyd CatheyApril 19, 2021
The spring of 1850 is an ominous perpetrator. Notwithstanding the crisis our country faced during…
Brad PondApril 16, 2021
Robert E. Lee's tenure as President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) should…
Philip LeighApril 15, 2021
During the past half century, there has been an ever-increasing tide of derogatory comments about…
John MarquardtApril 14, 2021
We have been told that the first shot fired in the "Civil War” was fired…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 12, 2021
Take up the White Man’s burden – Ye dare not stoop to less –Nor call…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 9, 2021
Major League Baseball on 2 April announced that both the All Star Game and the…
Casey ChalkApril 8, 2021
On the Ingraham Angle recently, guest, Craig Shirley offered an opinion that should cheer the…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 7, 2021
Three years ago, Woke General Ty Seidule of West Point addressed the students and faculty…
Abbeville InstituteApril 5, 2021
“Take but degree away, untune that string,And hark! what discord follows! Each thing meetsIn mere…
Jack TrotterApril 2, 2021
It’s strange to think that until 1962 — when the Houston’s Colt .45’s enjoyed their…
Casey ChalkApril 1, 2021
Sometimes, you need to go halfway around the world in order to make a point,…
Tom DanielMarch 31, 2021
No American is more vilified than John C. Calhoun. A recent biography has labeled him…
Brion McClanahanMarch 30, 2021
Any fool can write history, and many do. Please do not assume that I mean…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2021
A white house sits on the outskirts of a small town in upstate South Carolina.…
Tom HerveyMarch 26, 2021
Published in 2016, the book Our Man in Charleston tells the story of Robert Bunch…
Karen StokesMarch 25, 2021
Many today feel that true Southerners living in the eleven States of the former Confederacy…
John MarquardtMarch 24, 2021
Ty Seidule's mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters:…
Philip LeighMarch 22, 2021
I read this piece to the Jackson Writers Guild a year ago. Since then, we’ve…
Averyell A. KesslerMarch 19, 2021
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered before the Senate on March 12, 1910, at the…
Henry Cabot LodgeMarch 18, 2021
For some time now I have had a passion for classic films, in particular those…
Boyd CatheyMarch 17, 2021
It is time to consider the crimes committed against Southern prisoners of war by their…
Valerie ProtopapasMarch 15, 2021
As part of its campaign to pander to the important and urgent needs of African-Americans…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 12, 2021
The Virginia Military Institute, ever the underdog. . . . For longtime VMI football fans,…
Forrest L. MarionMarch 11, 2021
These past several years, we Americans have been living in an accelerating anti-cultural vortex. Day…
Jason MorganMarch 10, 2021
“Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?” asks one of the characters on…
Casey ChalkMarch 9, 2021
I have written here before about my beloved hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama. Forgive me if…
Tom DanielMarch 8, 2021
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which He hath made…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.March 5, 2021
During last week’s ice storm misery, I thought a lot about my southern upbringing and…
Averyell A. KesslerMarch 4, 2021
In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the…
Karen StokesMarch 2, 2021
Two terms that are tossed about with great liberality today are “racist” and “white supremacist.” …
Rev. Larry BeaneMarch 1, 2021
“The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes. 2020. I have written…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 26, 2021
The principal character in Joyce Maynard’s 1992 novel “To Die For” said that if you…
John MarquardtFebruary 25, 2021
In May of 2008, I became embroiled in a situation that had developed with the…
Valerie ProtopapasFebruary 24, 2021
A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. American…
Terry HulseyFebruary 23, 2021
“Acts of congress, to be binding, must be made pursuant to the constitution; otherwise they…
Earl StarbuckFebruary 22, 2021
Sometime back in the early sixties—climaxed in 1964 with Barry Goldwater’s efforts—the South with its…
Paul H. YarbroughFebruary 19, 2021
Coming out of the American Revolution, the nation faced a slave problem that most today…
James (Jim) PedersonFebruary 18, 2021
The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack…
Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2021
If these were normal times, we’d all be unpacking our Mardi Gras gear right about…
Tom DanielFebruary 16, 2021
I hope Grandfather fed them wellFrom out his meager store of cornOr fodder pulled by…
James Everett KiblerFebruary 15, 2021
On a late November evening in 1970, I rolled into the “Big Easy” on an…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.February 12, 2021
“A fig for the Constitution” if it does not protect our most basic rights was…
James Ronald KennedyFebruary 11, 2021
As one pastor in his sixties mentioned recently, “I would have thought VMI to be…
Forrest L. MarionFebruary 10, 2021
The Washington establishment, led by a senile 78-year-old man who can barely speak in complete…
Thomas DiLorenzoFebruary 9, 2021
What would you give in exchange for your soul? Bluegrass greats Bill Monroe and Doc…
Casey ChalkFebruary 8, 2021
Southern conservatism is considered an enigma when juxtaposed against the bipartisan political configuration having been…
Brad PondFebruary 4, 2021
The year 2020 was brutal for the friends of the South. Monuments and statues of…
John DevannyFebruary 3, 2021
(Mrs. Holley was the third generation of a Southern family in California. She wrote this…
Ruth Ann HolleyFebruary 2, 2021
A review of President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler (LSU Press, 2020)…
Joe WolvertonFebruary 1, 2021
From Eternity into Time Mighty the Wizard Who found me at sunrise Sleeping, and woke…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.January 29, 2021
Slavery, we are repeatedly told, is America’s “original sin.” But unlike the effects of Biblical…
William J. WatkinsJanuary 28, 2021
Rock ‘n Roll may be the most significant cultural export in American history. There is…
Tom DanielJanuary 27, 2021
America has a Lincoln problem. Professor Tom DiLorenzo explains why our nearly deification of "Honest…
Thomas DiLorenzoJanuary 26, 2021
It is a sad thing that it should fall to a junior representative from New…
Tom HerveyJanuary 22, 2021
The old saying: “American by birth, Southern by the grace of God” certainly applies to…
Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 21, 2021
Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated…
Philip LeighJanuary 19, 2021
According to a recent poll, 72 per cent of Americans think that we are now…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 18, 2021
Legendary financier J. P. Morgan once said: “A man always has two reasons for doing…
Philip LeighJanuary 15, 2021
You might call it propaganda, state lies, fraud, illusions or delusions. I prefer pretenses which…
Robert PetersJanuary 14, 2021
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1851 phantasmagorical image of slave life in the South has long been…
John MarquardtJanuary 13, 2021
“The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence,” observed Southern Gothic…
Casey ChalkJanuary 11, 2021
Early in the civil war President Lincoln had Federal Troops occupy the State of Maryland. …
Paul CallahanJanuary 8, 2021
In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute…
Forrest L. MarionJanuary 7, 2021
“Black identity-mongers…are creating a phoney history and phoney traditions as escapes from very real problems…
Joshua DoggrellJanuary 5, 2021
During the past couple of months, from shortly after the presidential election until now, seven…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 4, 2021
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
John DevannyDecember 28, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Joseph R. StrombergDecember 23, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Jack TrotterDecember 22, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Jason SorensDecember 21, 2020
Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in…
John DevannyDecember 18, 2020
Lexington, Virginia January 2002 Driving up, then down the mountain hairpins into Lexington,By daylight, moonlight,…
Thomas HubertDecember 17, 2020
Editor's Note: This lecture was delivered at our 2019 Summer School on the New South.…
Carey RobertsDecember 16, 2020
Most all of us who were fortunate enough to know our Grandfather has experienced his…
Travis HoltDecember 15, 2020
The red and the blue—states that is-- are as different as the colorless black and…
Paul H. YarbroughDecember 14, 2020
There are very few human symbols that find absolute approval or, in the alternative, disapproval.…
Valerie ProtopapasDecember 11, 2020
Earlier this year, shortly after the sad and unfortunate death of George Floyd in Minneapolis,…
Casey ChalkDecember 10, 2020
All-too-often, seemingly buried in the myriad dates and statistics of history, lies the human experience…
Travis ArchieDecember 9, 2020
The dramatic events leading up to the secession of the Southern States, the tragedy of…
John MarquardtDecember 7, 2020
In the late 19th century, Romantic composers were driven by nationalism as a means to…
Tom DanielDecember 4, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zksz7mOggqI&feature=youtu.be The Gettysburg Address is perhaps the most iconic speech in American history. Students are…
Brion McClanahanDecember 3, 2020
"May 29, 1856 "Abraham Lincoln, of Sangamon, came upon the platform amid deafening applause. He…
Vito MussomeliDecember 2, 2020
The life of a man is something that runs deep in all history. Before the…
Travis HoltNovember 30, 2020
When you hear the word “jazz,” what type of music pops into your head? What…
Tom DanielNovember 27, 2020
This Thanksgiving, the second of three NFL games will feature one of the oldest (albeit…
Casey ChalkNovember 26, 2020
Edited by Robert Hoyle. A Discourse delivered at the Annual Commencement of Hampden-Sydney College, June…
Robert Lewis DabneyNovember 25, 2020
The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. New Edition for the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 24, 2020
The chief conflict in American history was and remains the conflict between the center and…
John DevannyNovember 23, 2020
Secession: The point of the spear aimed at the heart of the American Leviathan –…
Terry HulseyNovember 20, 2020
The following address was delivered as part of a symposium at the 150th anniversary of…
James Everett KiblerNovember 19, 2020
It happened on Saturday morning, November 14, 2020, at around 8:15 EST. I had switched…
Boyd CatheyNovember 18, 2020
The pattern for modern American politics was set by Lincoln and his cronies in the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 16, 2020
The roots of the myth that slavery was primarily a white Southern institution were planted…
John MarquardtNovember 13, 2020
It is not often enough, but I do set aside blocks of time to express…
Joshua DoggrellNovember 12, 2020
‘There has always been this fallacious belief: “It would not be the same here; here…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 11, 2020
While watching a seventy-minute interview with Professor Adam Domby about his book, The False Cause, I was surprised…
Philip LeighNovember 10, 2020
As of Friday, November 6, the votes are still being counted in at least six…
Boyd CatheyNovember 9, 2020
Like any other economic exchange, the slave trade developed with a supplier, a consumer, and…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 6, 2020
In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met…
Karen StokesNovember 5, 2020
‘The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books,…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 4, 2020
Will Rogers had a quip for just about any situation, but he loved to talk…
Brion McClanahanNovember 3, 2020
“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the…
Valerie ProtopapasNovember 2, 2020
As some business owners and residents on King Street described it, “Charleston was raped” on…
Stewart O. JonesOctober 30, 2020
There’s a popular meme floating around the internet that has a middle-aged, pot-bellied, suburban male…
Christopher J. CarterOctober 29, 2020
When asked why he was a Catholic, Southern author Walker Percy liked to provocatively respond,…
Casey ChalkOctober 28, 2020
The political chaos that has accompanied President Trump’s first term will not abate anytime soon.…
Marshall DeRosaOctober 27, 2020
Through the centuries since Jamestown was founded, the South has held certain values, virtues, and…
Earl StarbuckOctober 26, 2020
The Southern Tradition is not something easily defined in a few words. Its specific formulation…
Mike GoodloeOctober 23, 2020
The United States acquired a vast area of the Southwest with the Treaty of Guadalupe…
Steve LeeOctober 22, 2020
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