A review of Confessions of a Copperhead: Culture and Politics in the Modern South (Shotwell…
John DevannyAugust 18, 2022
The resignation of Dr. Ann Hunter McLean from her Youngkin appointment to the Virginia Historic…
Cliff PageAugust 16, 2022
Very few things in my native Fairfax County are especially old. That’s unfortunate, given the…
Casey ChalkAugust 15, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 8-12, 2022 Topics: Southern history, Reconstruction,…
Brion McClanahanAugust 13, 2022
There is an interesting little noted fact of African American history that would alter current…
Clyde WilsonAugust 12, 2022
“When things go south” is a phrase that typically means matters have taken a turn…
Julie PaineAugust 11, 2022
It might truly be said that the death, funeral and burial of Thomas Jefferson’s American…
John MarquardtAugust 10, 2022
By early January 1861, South Carolina had seceded from the Union and stood alone as…
Ryan WaltersAugust 9, 2022
Raised on a tobacco farm at the edge of the Chinquapin Forest in Southern Maryland,…
J.L. BennettAugust 8, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 1-5, 2022 Topics: Southern History, Southern…
Brion McClanahanAugust 7, 2022
In the long range of history the war correspondent, a journalist embedded with a fighting…
Clyde WilsonAugust 5, 2022
VI. Still Rebels, Still Yankees Originally published as two essays in the American Review and…
Chase SteelyAugust 4, 2022
“As with so many other episodes in early American history, the true story of the…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 3, 2022
In 1859 the Union of American States entered the final stages of its greatest crisis,…
Ryan WaltersAugust 2, 2022
From the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School. After the decision was made to build a…
Carey RobertsAugust 1, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 25-29, 2022 Topics: Southern history, Southern…
Brion McClanahanJuly 30, 2022
As we progress into old age, our perspectives tend to change. Things that occupied most…
Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2022
Memory is the thing with which we forget. I tend to believe that Memory lives…
Brandon MeeksJuly 28, 2022
Palatial Porches and Dying Civilizations I take great pains to ensure that the devilish tempo…
Lafayette LeeJuly 27, 2022
Several years ago, my wife and I visited a distillery in rural Virginia that made…
Casey ChalkJuly 26, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 11-22, 2022 Topics: Southern Founders, Southern…
Brion McClanahanJuly 23, 2022
I sit here, watching the fading sun over the Ozarks hills, not too far from…
Travis HoltJuly 22, 2022
A review of The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals (Regnery History, 2022) by Samuel Mitcham The…
Jeff WolvertonJuly 21, 2022
In yet another attack on American history and heritage, the George Washington University in Washington,…
Timothy A. DuskinJuly 20, 2022
Aberrant as it has become, when the young Thomas Jefferson spoke or wrote of what…
Joshua DoggrellJuly 19, 2022
From the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School. St. George Tucker is a significant member of…
Clyde WilsonJuly 18, 2022
I. The Diversity of America Parts of this chapter (along with several others) are from…
Chase SteelyJuly 15, 2022
Uncle Jim didn’t care much for Lyin’ Ed and nobody really knew why. Some speculated…
Brandon MeeksJuly 14, 2022
The history of political parties in America is as old as the United States itself…
John MarquardtJuly 13, 2022
A review of Roster of North Carolinians in Confederate Naval Service: Confederate States Navy &…
Boyd CatheyJuly 12, 2022
No one acquainted with the poetical literature of the late war can have forgotten the…
Paul Hamilton HayneJuly 11, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 4-8, 2022 Topics: Lincoln, Declaration of…
Brion McClanahanJuly 9, 2022
“In 1938 appeared the clearest and most courageous of the Agrarian documents, Donald Davidson’s Attack…
Chase SteelyJuly 8, 2022
From the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School On April 10th, 1606, King James I of…
John GrahamJuly 7, 2022
To anyone devoted to the political revitalization of Western Civilization, and a re-founding of the…
Robert E. SalyerJuly 6, 2022
Perhaps the biggest falsehood ever pedaled about Abraham Lincoln is that he was devoted to…
Thomas DiLorenzoJuly 5, 2022
Did Thomas Jefferson father any children with Sally Hemings? The historical profession argues, yes. But…
abbeinstituteJuly 4, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 27-July 1, 2022 Topics: Reconstruction, Southern…
Brion McClanahanJuly 2, 2022
'Yates Standridge, who recently escaped from the state convict farm, where he was serving what…
Travis HoltJuly 1, 2022
When the assault on Southern heritage with the destruction of monuments, symbols and heroes began,…
Valerie ProtopapasJune 30, 2022
The Baz Luhrmann Elvis movie is as good as it is frustrating. The movie might…
Aaron N. ColemanJune 29, 2022
Pete Hegseth has a book out, Battle for the American Mind, which among other promotions…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 28, 2022
On June 24, 2022, Mr. William J. Martin, Director of the Valentine Museum in Richmond,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 27, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 20-24, 2022 Topics: Nullification, Supreme Court,…
Brion McClanahanJune 25, 2022
Some people won’t believe in something they haven’t seen, others refuse to believe in something…
Brandon MeeksJune 23, 2022
From the 2003 Abbeville Institute Summer School This morning we’re talking about the two greatest…
Marco BassaniJune 22, 2022
The reason your bank was closed yesterday: cultural appropriation and virtue signaling On February 25,…
Lola SanchezJune 21, 2022
Below is a footnote-free version of the Preface from my U. S. Grant's Failed Presidency…
Philip LeighJune 20, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 13-17-2022 Topics: Slavery, Moonshine, the War,…
Brion McClanahanJune 18, 2022
We live in a regime with an industrial output of lies about Southern history, so…
Clyde WilsonJune 17, 2022
As I grow older my appreciation for the wisdom of my parents increases. As the…
Earl StarbuckJune 16, 2022
Moonshine, though often associated with Appalachia, is also an integral part of the Ozarks culture.…
Travis HoltJune 15, 2022
Black slaves toiling in the fields of large plantations, gentlemen in frock coats and ladies…
John MarquardtJune 14, 2022
Tommie D. Boudreau, chairwoman of the African American Heritage Committee of the Galveston Historical Foundation…
Timothy A. DuskinJune 13, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute June 6-10, 2022 Topics: The War, Abraham…
Brion McClanahanJune 11, 2022
On March 7, 1862, Lincoln sent to congress and congress passed a joint resolution offering…
Rod O'BarrJune 10, 2022
Lest we forget, it has been nineteen years since the film “Gods and Generals” was…
Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2022
I suppose that most men would like to think that they could shoot someone to…
Brandon MeeksJune 8, 2022
From the 2003 Abbeville Institute Summer School I come from a somewhat different mold and…
Marshall DeRosaJune 6, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 30-June 3, 2022 Topics: Southern History,…
Brion McClanahanJune 4, 2022
Most people don't know anything about Jefferson Davis other than he was the President of…
Abbeville InstituteJune 3, 2022
In March of 1928, W.E.B. DuBois published a short essay attacking the character of Robert…
Michael MartinJune 2, 2022
Going back to Jefferson, you can say that Jefferson’s vision of radical Federalism was of…
Marco BassaniJune 1, 2022
Mako Honda recently told the Washington Post that she and her husband Ryan Finley live…
Casey ChalkMay 30, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 23-27, 2022 Topics: United States Constitution,…
Brion McClanahanMay 28, 2022
Katy Pavlich commented on the Five recently that President Biden needed to do something about…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 27, 2022
Although most modern biographies attribute the corruption in Grant’s Administration to venal advisors who…
Philip LeighMay 26, 2022
Robert Frost tells us that “good fences make good neighbors.” I suppose there is some…
Brandon MeeksMay 25, 2022
It’s hell, sittin’ here. I grew up in the hills of Newton County, Arkansas, the…
Travis HoltMay 24, 2022
From the 2003 Abbeville Institute Summer School. I’m going to be talking about the Anti-Federalists.…
Marco BassaniMay 23, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 16-20, 2022 Topics: Southern Culture, Southern…
Brion McClanahanMay 21, 2022
On a recent visit to Abbeville, South Carolina I visited the Burt-Stark House, one of…
Thomas HubertMay 20, 2022
Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873 – 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor…
Valerie ProtopapasMay 19, 2022
A Review of Blacks in Gray Uniforms (Arcadia, 2018) by Phillip Thomas Tucker South Carolina…
Karen StokesMay 18, 2022
Now, after what may have been a racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo (May 14) by…
Boyd CatheyMay 17, 2022
While teaching at the University of Virginia, William Faulkner once remarked: “'I like Virginia and…
Casey ChalkMay 16, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 9-13 2022 Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Northern…
Brion McClanahanMay 14, 2022
The best of the many Confederate memoirs, in my opinion, are those of General Richard…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2022
Delivered at the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park for the Confederate Memorial Day remembrance held…
Martin O'TooleMay 12, 2022
In a penitent act of fiscal flagellation, Harvard University recently reported that it was establishing…
John MarquardtMay 10, 2022
It has been over a century and a half since Lincoln’s assassination did much to…
Shaan ShandhuMay 9, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute May 2-6, 2022 Topics: Southern Politics, Southern…
Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2022
A review of Arm in Arm (Mercer, 2022) by Catharine Savage Brosman Our conscious civilisation…
Clyde WilsonMay 6, 2022
Delivered by Oscar Underwood of Alabama in the House of Representatives May, 1902. Mr. UNDERWOOD.…
Oscar UnderwoodMay 5, 2022
Speech delivered by Senator A.O. Bacon of Georgia, December, 1902. Mr. President: Of course, I…
A.O. BaconMay 4, 2022
A recent article in the politically conservative National Review about Ulysses Grant’s presidency by historian…
Philip LeighMay 3, 2022
This piece was originally published at Chronicles Magazine and is reprinted here by permission. The…
Paul GottfriedMay 2, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 25-29, 2022 Topics: Southern Tradition, Confederate…
Brion McClanahanApril 30, 2022
I'm going to talk about the way the Articles of Confederation functioned, how people acted…
Carey RobertsApril 29, 2022
Neither side in the War for Southern Independence produced a finer or more morally upright…
Samuel W. MitchamApril 28, 2022
My grandmother is the closest thing to a saint I have ever known. She is…
Brandon MeeksApril 27, 2022
The Washington Post’s Ian Shapira and his social justice allies in Richmond and Lexington, Virginia,…
Forrest L. MarionApril 26, 2022
Today is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama. Most Americans believe the War and Southern history…
Brion McClanahanApril 25, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute April 18-22, 2022 Topics: Southern Politics, Southern…
Brion McClanahanApril 23, 2022
William Gilmore Simms, Part 2 The Green Corn Dance Come hither, hither, old and young--the…
Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2022
In 1935 Lyon Gardiner Tyler – descendant of 10th President John Tyler – wrote: “The…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 21, 2022
Mr. President--I fully concur with the gentleman from Montgomery, in the propriety of immediately passing…
Lewis M. StoneApril 20, 2022
From the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. So, what I have to say is gonna…
Thomas FlemingApril 19, 2022
There is a vast political swell among some ill-informed conservatives that the great mid-term elections…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 18, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 11-15, 2022 Topics: the War, Secession,…
Brion McClanahanApril 17, 2022
There are disagreements on the subject, but I wholeheartedly believe that Bardstown, Kentucky is “where…
J.L. BennettApril 15, 2022
In the mid-1760s, violent criminal activity began to spread throughout the sparsely populated interior of…
Nicole WilliamsApril 13, 2022
A line from Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” In the case of the great…
John MarquardtApril 12, 2022
Part 6 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…
Clyde WilsonApril 11, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 4-8, 2022 Topics: Secession, Union, Woke…
Brion McClanahanApril 9, 2022
French politician and author Jean-Nicholas Démeunier, in 1786, published his Essai sur les États-Unis. Prior…
M. Andrew HolowchakApril 8, 2022
To begin with, it is hornbook law* that the signatories to any contract or compact,…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 7, 2022
I've learned a good deal about Poe's paternal and maternal backgrounds; I had never really…
James Everett KiblerApril 6, 2022
Part 5 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…
Clyde WilsonApril 5, 2022
‘Union’ neither denotes nor explicates a form of government. It is a word estranged in…
Vito MussomeliApril 4, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 21 - April 1, 2022 Topics:…
Brion McClanahanApril 2, 2022
On March 15, John T. “Til” Hazel Jr. died in Broad Run, Fauquier County, Virginia.…
Casey ChalkApril 1, 2022
From our 2008 Summer School, Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric In some respects, the title of…
John DevannyMarch 31, 2022
Part 4 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2022
In April 1861, a public meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana to discuss Governor…
Shane AndersonMarch 28, 2022
Originally published in 1898 in The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature, Vol. XXII by John…
John Clark RidpathMarch 25, 2022
A review of The Dreadful Frauds: Critical Race Theory and Identity Politics, (Shotwell Publishing, 2022)…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.March 24, 2022
At the writing of this article, the ongoing struggle between Ukraine and Russia has most…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyMarch 23, 2022
Part 3 in Clyde Wilson's series "African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective." Read Part 1 and…
Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 14-18, 2022 Topics: Southern History, Slavery,…
Brion McClanahanMarch 19, 2022
In most minds today, the word segregation and the term “Jim Crow” immediately evoke a…
John MarquardtMarch 18, 2022
The advent of my coming and going to another world was not through a portal…
Chase SteelyMarch 17, 2022
I started playing the piano when I was 11. My family wasn’t musical and didn’t…
Brandon MeeksMarch 16, 2022
Part 2 in Clyde Wilson's series, African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective. Part 1 can…
Clyde WilsonMarch 15, 2022
Back in early 1981 the brilliant Southern scholar and traditionalist, Professor Mel Bradford, was…
Boyd CatheyMarch 14, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 7-11, 2022 Topics: Southern Tradition, Robert…
Brion McClanahanMarch 12, 2022
I presume I am not the only person who thinks regularly about the strange reality…
Casey ChalkMarch 11, 2022
Our culture’s indifference to the past---which easily shades over into hostility and rejection---furnishes the most…
Clyde WilsonMarch 10, 2022
Delivered at the 2013 Abbeville Institute Summer School. What I want to do is thoroughly…
William WilsonMarch 8, 2022
On July 17, 1849, Robert Smith Todd of Lexington, Kentucky, died suddenly of cholera. He…
Kevin Orlin JohnsonMarch 7, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 28 - March 4, 2022 Topics:…
Brion McClanahanMarch 6, 2022
Originally published in the Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 16. 1888 While the Virginia Convention…
William A. ObenchainMarch 4, 2022
Filmmaker Arlen Parsa has recently undertaken a project that blots out the faces of all…
M. Andrew HolowchakMarch 3, 2022
Postwar Southern reconstruction became corrupted when congressional Republicans took charge of it with the March…
Philip LeighMarch 2, 2022
In the rural Virginia town of Swoope, near the Shenandoah Valley, Joel Salatin practices common…
Michael MartinMarch 1, 2022
A dozen years ago or so, I was pastoring a small country church in the…
Brandon MeeksFebruary 28, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Feb 21-25, 2022 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 26, 2022
ACADEMIA'S ABSOLUTE PROOF that the War Between the States was fought over slavery is based…
Gene Kizer, Jr.February 25, 2022
Have you ever accidentally used the wrong mushrooms in a recipe inducing you to think…
Chase SteelyFebruary 24, 2022
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are things which have lain undiscovered,…
Karen StokesFebruary 23, 2022
The Adventures and Recollections of General Walter P. Lane, A San Jacinto Veteran (1887) John…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 22, 2022
As far back as the days of ancient Greece and Rome, people have dreamed of…
John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, February 14 - 18, 2022 Topics: Southern…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 19, 2022
The writer remembers with respect and admiration Mr. Anthony E. “Tony” Hamilton (1957-2022), President of…
Forrest L. MarionFebruary 18, 2022
I. The Fall of Richmond In 1930, that caustic fellow H.L. Mencken wrote that if…
Joseph R. StrombergFebruary 16, 2022
A review of How Radical Republican Antislavery Rhetoric and Violence Precipitated Secession, October 1859 -…
John DevannyFebruary 15, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, February 7-11, 2022 Topics: Abraham Lincoln, the…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 13, 2022
Tomorrow is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Familiar Lincoln idolaters will gather to celebrate the birth, on…
Ilana MercerFebruary 11, 2022
A Series by Clyde Wilson. WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806-1870) of South Carolina, amazingly prolific novelist,…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 10, 2022
On a website devoted to publishing scholarly articles, I did recently did a search…
Thomas HubertFebruary 9, 2022
The opening of this essay is from my segment of the documentary Searching for Lincoln…
Valerie ProtopapasFebruary 8, 2022
Delivered at our 2011 Scholar's Conference, The South and America's Wars Well, good morning, and…
Richard M. GambleFebruary 7, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 31 - Feb 4, 2022 Topics:…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 5, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson HENRY ROOTES JACKSON (1820—1898) of Georgia was a lawyer, judge…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2022
By Forrest McDonald and Clyde Wilson. These essays were originally published in the Fall 1982…
Abbeville InstituteFebruary 3, 2022
Excerpt from Ryan Walters, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President (Abbeville Institute Press, 2021) While…
Ryan WaltersFebruary 2, 2022
I’ve spent the last forty-five years doing family research and family history. I’ve interviewed some…
Barbara MarthalFebruary 1, 2022
In the summer of 2015, a 60-year old former-member of the American Service and retired-electrician…
Gerald LefurgyJanuary 31, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 24-28. 2022 Topics: Reconciliation, Confederate Monuments,…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 30, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson Thomas Holley Chivers (1809—1858) of Georgia was a physician and…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 28, 2022
In his 1903 book, The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney, Thomas Cary Johnson…
Miles FoltermannJanuary 27, 2022
From Ryan Walters, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President (Abbeville Institute Press, 2021). “Equal and…
Ryan WaltersJanuary 26, 2022
The federal government facilitates fundraising for traitors. That’s the claim made by the Washington Post’s…
Casey ChalkJanuary 25, 2022
When Robert E. Lee died in 1870, a memorial association was formed in the City…
Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 24, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 17-21, 2022 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 22, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson. LOUISA SUSANNAH CHEVES McCORD (1810—1879) of South Carolina was one…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 21, 2022
The Yankee Empire was born on the ruins of the shattered South. After the Yankee…
Jason MorganJanuary 20, 2022
This essay was originally published in the First Quarter 1992 issue of Southern Partisan. A…
David BovenizerJanuary 19, 2022
A Review of: Richard B. Russell, Jr. Senator from Georgia (UNC Press, 1991) by Gilbert…
Charles GoolsbyJanuary 18, 2022
As is my custom, each year for the Federal holiday celebrating Martin Luther King (whose…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 17, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 10-14, 2022 Topics: Slavery, Democracy, the…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 16, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson Alexander Beaufort Meek, Part 2 The Rose of Alabama I…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 14, 2022
Edmund Ruffin, from his Diary: hen the mob bears the sway in elections, it knows…
Abbeville InstituteJanuary 13, 2022
After 200 years of digesting Enlightenment ideals of natural rights, and reciting a pledge that…
Rod O'BarrJanuary 12, 2022
But most significant of all was the attitude assumed by the Federal Government in dealing…
William Edward Hartpole LeckyJanuary 11, 2022
There once were more than fifteen hundred Confederate memorials, including over seven hundred major monuments and statues,…
John MarquardtJanuary 10, 2022
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 3-7, 2022 Topics: Southern History, Abraham…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 8, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK (1814-1865) of Alabama. Meek was one of…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 7, 2022
Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal along with Tesla’s Elon Musk and an early Facebook…
Philip LeighJanuary 6, 2022
The true legacy of Lincoln usually gets drowned in the perennial gush about a president…
Ilana MercerJanuary 5, 2022
“That the negroes did not revolt is one of the incomprehensible features of our Civil…
Rod O'BarrJanuary 4, 2022
The subject of lynching, or “lynch law” as it was also called, is a decidedly…
Forrest L. MarionJanuary 3, 2022
The barbarians have broken through the gates and are now running rampant through the streets.…
Brion McClanahanDecember 31, 2021
Growing up on ‘Holt Hill’ in Vendor, Arkansas, I was truly blessed. I had a…
Travis HoltDecember 30, 2021
Is it un-patriotic for Southerners to question American military intervention? This is a perplexing question…
James Ronald KennedyDecember 29, 2021
Governor Northam's henchmen have finally located the time capsule buried in the Memorial erected to…
Cliff PageDecember 28, 2021
In a speech to the Georgia legislature in 1866, Former Vice President of the Confederacy…
Donald LivingstonDecember 27, 2021
Christmas can be both a wonderful and awful time of the year for many of…
Nicole WilliamsDecember 24, 2021
After the Civil War, former North Carolina governor Zeb Vance became a U.S. senator. His…
Jeff MinickDecember 20, 2021
Although Hollywood is now considered a monolithic bastion of leftist and “woke” political and cultural…
Boyd CatheyDecember 10, 2021
In the warped minds of today’s so-called “woke,” even such an evocative holiday song as…
John MarquardtDecember 9, 2021
Andrew Nelson Lytle—novelist, dramatist, essayist, and professor of literature—extolled the order of the family, which…
Mark G. MalvasiDecember 8, 2021
There are stories, and then there are stories within stories. This is one of the…
Thomas HubertDecember 7, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2021 Topics: Tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanDecember 6, 2021
The flourishing of art is necessary for the preservation of any people or tradition. Over-reliance…
Robert HoyleDecember 6, 2021
“My shirt is ragged and my pants are tore. I ain’t found nothin’ I’m a-looking…
J.L. BennettDecember 3, 2021
Editor's note: The author of this piece won the Bennett History Medal in 1908 for…
D. Ralph Midyette, Jr.December 2, 2021
A few more words, and we shall be in a condition to answer the question…
Raphael SemmesDecember 1, 2021
The proud folks of The Old Dominion turned their state from Blue back to Red…
James Ronald KennedyNovember 30, 2021
The Thanksgiving holiday always puts me in mind of the history of this country from…
Boyd CatheyNovember 29, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Nov 22-26, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
Brion McClanahanNovember 27, 2021
Of all the giants that strode through my childhood, some loom larger than others: Some…
Travis HoltNovember 26, 2021
In the future some historian shall come forth both strong and wise-- With a love…
James Barron HopeNovember 25, 2021
On Saturday, November 20, MSNBC aired a segment by activist Gyasi Ross comparing Thanksgiving to…
Brion McClanahanNovember 24, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life (Random House, 2021) by Allen Guelzo “How…
Casey ChalkNovember 23, 2021
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,/ Rough-hew them how we will.” - Hamlet V,…
Thomas HubertNovember 22, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Nov 15-19, 2021 Topics: Foreign Policy, Southern…
Brion McClanahanNovember 20, 2021
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered in 1917 and was published in the September issue…
H.W. JohnstonNovember 19, 2021
The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the…
J. William FulbrightNovember 18, 2021
By 1860 our country was so hopelessly divided that it broke up, and only by…
M.C. AtkinsNovember 17, 2021
As in the practice of lingchi, the ancient Chinese form of slow and painful execution…
John MarquardtNovember 16, 2021
Many years ago I spent five fantastic weeks in Boston during the fall. Though I…
Casey ChalkNovember 15, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 8-12, 2021 Topics: Lost Cause, Social…
Brion McClanahanNovember 13, 2021
I was chairman of the Annual Confederate Flag Day at the North Carolina State…
Boyd CatheyNovember 12, 2021
John Rock was an American teacher, doctor, dentist, lawyer and abolitionist. Rock was one of…
Rod O'BarrNovember 11, 2021
Editor's Note: Often considered one of the more important "Lost Cause" post-bellum narratives, Letitia Burwell's…
Letitia M. BurwellNovember 10, 2021
Editor's Note: Former Abbeville Institute summer school student Jon Harris and his Last Stand Studios…
Abbeville InstituteNovember 8, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Nov 1-5, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanNovember 6, 2021
Dr. Paul Gottfried's speech at the annual Confederate Flag Day commemoration in the historic 1840…
Boyd CatheyNovember 5, 2021
Missouri celebrated her 160th anniversary of her secession from the Union on October 28. It…
Wes FranklinNovember 4, 2021
Critical to the debate regarding the right of secession is where, in the minds of…
Rod O'BarrNovember 3, 2021
The current conservative populist movement appears to offer some hope of mounting an effective resistance…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 2, 2021
In August, Thomas Moore, novelist and founding Chairman of the Southern National Congress, passed away…
Clyde WilsonNovember 1, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Oct 25-29, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, slavery,…
Brion McClanahanOctober 30, 2021
Editor's Note: United States Senator Thomas F. Bayard delivered this speech in January, 1875…
Thomas F. BayardOctober 29, 2021
It has become fashionable to bash the South - not only by removing war memorials…
Rev. Larry BeaneOctober 28, 2021
George Will writes what amounts to a review of Allen C. Guelzo’s biography, Robert E.…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 27, 2021
Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated…
John DevannyOctober 26, 2021
At the University of Virginia, Room No.13 on the fabled Lawn is reserved as a…
Casey ChalkOctober 25, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, October 18-22, 2021 Topics: Southern Tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanOctober 23, 2021
The delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, presumptuously shelving that…
J.L. BennettOctober 22, 2021
Our farm was a broadly covered area of green stalks, blanketing the ground for hundreds…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 21, 2021
After finishing a biography titled, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty, by John Kukla, I am…
Julie PaineOctober 20, 2021
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