A series by Clyde Wilson EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809--1849) of Virginia was the great creative…
Clyde WilsonJuly 2, 2020
Editor's Note: The Abbeville Institute does not endorse or support the views of Alexander Dugin…
Walt GarlingtonJune 30, 2020
“The problem with Lincoln is the problem with America,” said my friend Clyde Wilson when…
Thomas DiLorenzoJune 29, 2020
As someone who came to the Southern Conservative tradition late this moment feels very strange.…
Aaron GleasonJune 26, 2020
Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina comes across as a nice man, well-mannered, calm, the…
Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2020
Tucker Carlson, a man who had revealed himself as a reliable reporter/journalist over the years,…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 24, 2020
Today, as it was a hundred and sixty years ago, America stands on the edge…
John MarquardtJune 23, 2020
Bentonville is the lovely little town in Northwest Arkansas that I have spent nearly my…
Neil KumarJune 22, 2020
I am desperately trying to sooth a despaired and troubled heart. What’s the source of…
Barbara MarthalJune 19, 2020
On June 13, 2020, Clemson University president Jim Clements proclaimed, “this was an important day…
Andrew P. CalhounJune 18, 2020
Like locusts eating out the sustenance of farmers and agrarians, the once-proud land called Virginia…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 17, 2020
“Southerners who still value their heritage but don’t know what to do about it in…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2020
In a gosh attempt at virtue signaling, the Clemson University Board of Trustees has unanimously…
William J. WatkinsJune 15, 2020
Last week Governor Ralph Northam announced his plan to remove the iconic statue of Robert…
Paul GottfriedJune 12, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY (1802-1828) of Maryland was born and partly…
Clyde WilsonJune 11, 2020
The Great Men of History: What part do the so-called “Great Men of history” play…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 10, 2020
Since 1960, the racist identity politics of the left has politicized and degraded American history…
Gene Kizer, Jr.June 9, 2020
A Japanese neighbor of ours in Tokyo, a former university professor, has written a number…
John MarquardtJune 5, 2020
In Memory of Dr. Neil Compton, Arkansas Hero, 1912-1999 Neil Compton of Bentonville, Arkansas, my…
Neil KumarJune 4, 2020
Who should Americans blame for the iconoclasm on display during the "protests" in virtually every…
Brion McClanahanJune 3, 2020
Increasingly, I try to avoid news-binging, watching assiduously all the compiled, feculent bilge that passes…
Boyd CatheyJune 2, 2020
I first met Dr. Clyde Wilson in February 2018 at an Abbeville Institute conference in…
Dissident MamaJune 1, 2020
It is an established principle of the current political class, made up of mostly of…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 30, 2020
Ramblin’ Man - Allman Bros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1xjl00sbao This was the biggest hit for the Allman Brothers…
Brion McClanahanMay 29, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson RICHARD HENRY WILDE (1789--1847) of Georgia gave up a successful…
Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2020
Watching events unfold as the non-pandemic/pandemic worked its way across the fruited plain has been…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyMay 27, 2020
Part of the blood that flows through the veins of the Southern ethnos is French…
Walt GarlingtonMay 26, 2020
Should it be asked, why then build this monument? The answer is, they do not…
Shane AndersonMay 25, 2020
Once upon a time, somewhere near here, there were thirteen sturdy proprietors. They lived within…
Joseph R. StrombergMay 22, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson WASHINGTON ALLSTON (1779--1843) of South Carolina was one of the…
Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2020
People remember Missouri as a Union rather than a Confederate state. Even those who are…
Jason WelchMay 20, 2020
Hot 'Lanta - Allman Brothers Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSoo3bLhIc The typical standard jazz composition that would be…
Tom DanielMay 15, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (1779-1843) of Maryland. The story is well…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2020
The question before us, ‘how did the writings of Blackstone influence American political philosophy, and…
Barry ClarkMay 13, 2020
Presbyterianism has a rich legacy in American history. The Presbyterian church was founded in Scotland…
Zachary GarrisMay 12, 2020
Allen Mendenhall interviews John Shelton Reed. AM: John, I really appreciate this interview. Your latest…
Allen MendenhallMay 11, 2020
A series by Brion McClanahan, Tom Daniel, and Jeff Rogers Loan Me a Dime -…
Brion McClanahanMay 8, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson Homage to Revolutionary Heroes DOLLEY PAYNE MADISON (1768—1849) was the…
Clyde WilsonMay 7, 2020
The Confederacy never organized a Supreme Court because her founders generally interpreted the U. S. Constitution strictly.…
Philip LeighMay 6, 2020
The political structure in the United States is often portrayed by the media and its…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 4, 2020
A list compiled by Brion McClanahan, Tom Daniel, and Jeff Rogers Good Time Feelin' -…
Brion McClanahanMay 1, 2020
A Series by Clyde Wilson UNKNOWN WRITER, 1781 The Battle of King’s Mountain 'T was…
Clyde WilsonApril 30, 2020
Especially in unsettling times, it is helpful for Christians to examine the lives of faithful…
Forrest L. MarionApril 29, 2020
Over a century and a half has passed since Confederate States General Robert E. Lee…
James Ronald KennedyApril 27, 2020
A list compiled by Brion McClanahan, Tom Daniel, and Jeff Rogers Goin' Down Slow -…
Brion McClanahanApril 24, 2020
EBENEZER COOKE (fl. ca. l 680s--1730s?) of Maryland is a major figure in Colonial American…
Clyde WilsonApril 23, 2020
On various occasions I’ve made references to Chronicles Magazine and cited articles printed in it. Remarkably, Chronicles is the only print…
Boyd CatheyApril 22, 2020
Union and liberty are not two terms most people associate with John C. Calhoun, a…
John GroveApril 20, 2020
A list compiled by Brion McClanahan, Tom Daniel, and Jeff Rogers Blood in the Water…
Brion McClanahanApril 17, 2020
JOHN COTTON (fl. 1660s – 1720s) was an early settler of Virginia, never to be…
Clyde WilsonApril 16, 2020
An outlook is bleak when nothing worse can be said than the truth. To this…
Gerald LefurgyApril 15, 2020
The Commandant of the Marine Corps has decreed that all symbols of the Confederacy be…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 13, 2020
A list compiled by Brion McClanahan, Tom Daniel, and Jeff Rogers Almost everyone in the…
Brion McClanahanApril 10, 2020
A Series By Clyde Wilson If the South would’ve won, we’d’ve had it made." --Hank…
Clyde WilsonApril 9, 2020
Literature, be it works of fact or fiction, might well be described as a window…
John MarquardtApril 8, 2020
I recently wrote that “our South still exists, and not only in our own hearts;…
Neil KumarApril 6, 2020
The government is not going to rescue all the businesses that go under as a…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 3, 2020
Thoughtful Southerners of a conservative and traditional bent have known since the 1980s that the…
Boyd CatheyApril 2, 2020
In the beginning, there was no segregation, certainly not in the sense that we commonly…
Jack TrotterApril 1, 2020
In Ideas Have Consequences (1948), Richard Weaver described comfort as the god of modern man. …
William J. WatkinsMarch 30, 2020
From Dylann Roof to Harvey Weinstein Many of us predicted it. The war on American…
Lola SanchezMarch 27, 2020
21. Faulkner in Film Southern viewers must naturally be interested in what Hollywood has done…
Clyde WilsonMarch 26, 2020
The first thing I learned about Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest was that he had twenty-nine…
Neil KumarMarch 25, 2020
“Where you gonna be when half of California riots? Where you gonna run to when…
Brion McClanahanMarch 23, 2020
Estimates of the number of South Vietnamese civilian casualties during the U.S. war in Vietnam…
Norman BlackMarch 20, 2020
19. Our Speech The experts will tell you that there is more than one Southern…
Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 2020
John C. Calhoun was the last eloquent political philosopher to stand against the ideology and…
Barry ClarkMarch 18, 2020
As explained yesterday, Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy maligned my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech presented on Lee-Jackson Day in…
Philip LeighMarch 16, 2020
Just as the Earth revolves on its axis each day and travels around the Sun…
John MarquardtMarch 13, 2020
18. World War II and Other Wars “To deliver examples to posterity, and to regulate…
Clyde WilsonMarch 12, 2020
Daniel Baker (1791-1857) is all but forgotten today, but in the first half of the…
Karen StokesMarch 11, 2020
The common impression about the Klan is that it is a Southern anti-Black White Supremacist…
James (Jim) PedersonMarch 9, 2020
Bernie Sanders wants to bring back slavery. This raises the question: can he have the…
Paul H. YarbroughMarch 6, 2020
16. EXECRABLES. The Worst Movies about the South: A Small Selection The competition here is…
Clyde WilsonMarch 5, 2020
Hillary Clinton infamously said: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half…
Aaron GleasonMarch 4, 2020
Statues of heroes are erected to remind us of our past, of their noble deeds,…
Brett MoffattFebruary 28, 2020
15. Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Southerners: Films for the Family The major movie stars of…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 27, 2020
Today there is a frenzied effort to tear down memorials to the Confederate dead. If…
Shane AndersonFebruary 26, 2020
Several months ago, I attended a speech given by Paul Gramling, the commander-in-chief of the…
Samuel W. MitchamFebruary 24, 2020
It was Thursday, Christmas day of 1862, and the guns at Fredericksburg had fallen silent…
John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2020
12. Southerners in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries **The Yearling (1946). This is…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 20, 2020
King of the Hill is loaded with all kinds of satirical southern wisdom that was…
Aaron GleasonFebruary 19, 2020
Who was the greatest president in American history? Ask this question to a group of…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 17, 2020
Fear not. Dixie lights are merely hiding under a bushel, as it says in the…
Barbara LawterFebruary 14, 2020
11. Post-bellum and Westerns There are two interesting, important, and little noticed features of films…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2020
The American story is a story of secession, or better still secessions. The first permanent…
John DevannyFebruary 12, 2020
On January 21st Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy wrote an article about my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech at the January18th…
Philip LeighFebruary 10, 2020
10. Spielberg’s Lincoln (X) Spielberg’s Lincoln. Life is short. Although I am a devoted if…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 7, 2020
American political theater has become the most entertaining show in town. Trump refuses to shake…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 6, 2020
Progressive California lawmakers have decided to create their own Green New Deal in order to…
Aaron GleasonFebruary 5, 2020
All across the Southland today efforts have been mounted by “woke” social justice warriors—in most…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 3, 2020
The Harvard Law Review has published a proposal for supposedly enhancing a better democracy than…
Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 31, 2020
9. Confederate Hollywood From the beginnings to rather recent times portrayals of Confederates have been…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 30, 2020
The novelist Walker Percy was inescapably Southern by virtually any measure. Born May 28, 1916…
Thomas HubertJanuary 27, 2020
Caught a tweet tonight from Professor Henry Louis Gates, the Executive Producer of this PBS…
Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 24, 2020
8. The War for Southern Independence (continued): Fantasy and Fraud Scorcese’s Gangs of New York…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2020
Lieutenant-General Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson was the greatest martyr of our Cause, the first icon…
Neil KumarJanuary 22, 2020
“If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous ‘wisdom’of the…
Ben JonesJanuary 20, 2020
William Gibson surprises people when they meet him. The writer who coined the terms “cyberspace”…
Mike C. TuggleJanuary 17, 2020
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2020
Theories of education in any land are never easily divorced from the prevailing ideas regarding…
Robert HoyleJanuary 15, 2020
As 2020 commences it is perhaps appropriate that we take stock—that we take a look…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 13, 2020
Not that long ago, it seems, Congressional Democrats were calling the Constitution an outdated impediment…
J.L. BennettJanuary 10, 2020
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 9, 2020
If one bothered to turn back the pages of history it should become quite evident…
John MarquardtJanuary 8, 2020
A photograph of the University of Mississippi Majorettes graced the cover of the September 24,…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 6, 2020
The culture war rages on. And what a war! There seems to be a new…
Donald LivingstonDecember 23, 2019
The impeachment hearings are good for humor if for nothing else. They bring out the…
Paul H. YarbroughDecember 20, 2019
5. Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) If Amistad is not yet a household word like ET or…
Clyde WilsonDecember 19, 2019
Back in 2015 when Dylan Roof shot those black folks in their church in Charleston,…
Al BensonDecember 18, 2019
I just finished seeing the movie trailer for the upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures film Richard…
C.W. RodenDecember 16, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Dec 9-13, 2019 Topics: Southern music, Southern…
Brion McClanahanDecember 15, 2019
There are few Southern hearts that still fail to skip a beat or two when…
John MarquardtDecember 13, 2019
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonDecember 12, 2019
There’s a Southern accentWhere I come from.The young un’s call it country,And the Yankees call…
Brion McClanahanDecember 11, 2019
Bevin Alexander’s “How Great Generals Win” was an intellectual watershed in my life. By applying…
Aaron GleasonDecember 6, 2019
An excerpt from North Carolina author Robert Ruark’s best known novel reads: “If a man…
Philip LeighDecember 4, 2019
Early this past summer the historic Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, near the city of Charlotte,…
Boyd CatheyDecember 2, 2019
Driving thru Southern Maryland’s rural scenery- farms, woods, and villages, history greets you around every…
Brett MoffattNovember 27, 2019
Despite his unrivaled popularity after the Civil War, Republcan Ulysses Grant won the presidency merely…
Philip LeighNovember 26, 2019
The role of religion, specifically evangelical protestant religion in the North, is frequently emphasized by…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 22, 2019
It is disturbing when you see a man like Tucker Carlson, who seems a reasonably…
Paul H. YarbroughNovember 21, 2019
The beginning of the American political order goes much further back than the Philadelphia Convention…
John DevannyNovember 20, 2019
With the recent triumph of the Democrat Party in the 2019 statewide elections in Virginia,…
Brion McClanahanNovember 18, 2019
Mike Hudson was an investigative journalist for the now-defunct Niagara Falls Reporter in 2014, and…
Bernard ThuersamNovember 15, 2019
Many present-day Southerners—indeed, many of those Americans who call themselves “conservatives”—find it difficult to envisage…
Boyd CatheyNovember 14, 2019
Confederate statue critics increasingly argue that the monuments should be torn down because they honor…
Philip LeighNovember 13, 2019
There are really only two basic opinions when it comes to the world’s largest carving…
John MarquardtNovember 11, 2019
One of the two commandments the Lord Jesus Christ gave to His disciples to follow…
Walt GarlingtonNovember 8, 2019
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the “Whose Heritage?” report on the…
Ernest BlevinsNovember 7, 2019
One of the most enduring myths of American history centers on the “compact theory” of…
Brion McClanahanNovember 6, 2019
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they…
Ben JonesNovember 4, 2019
The Chesapeake Bay is the heart of Maryland. Except for a couple of remote areas,…
Brett MoffattNovember 1, 2019
In August of 1862, two years before his infamous ‘March to the Sea’, General William…
Vann BosemanOctober 31, 2019
J.P. Morgan, tycoon banker and a close friend to President Stephen Grover Cleveland, observed that…
Justin PedersonOctober 30, 2019
In our turbulent times it is increasingly evident that our government is disconnected to the…
Boyd CatheyOctober 28, 2019
The Soiling of Old Glory by Stanley Forman When I See That Flag Flying by…
Abbeville InstituteOctober 25, 2019
Heartbroken, I have learned that my beloved Bentonville, Arkansas, has been attacked. The Confederate monument…
Neil KumarOctober 24, 2019
Just before Christmas of 1860, the chain of events that was to soon to lead…
John MarquardtOctober 23, 2019
You know, as a kid who grew up without electricity, a telephone or indoor plumbing,…
Ben JonesOctober 21, 2019
Charles Francis Adams was the grandson and son of former-Presidents John and John Quincy Adams.…
Gerald LefurgyOctober 18, 2019
In 1993 the Washington Post published an article on research being conducted by an accomplished…
H.L. DowlessOctober 17, 2019
The news media rarely, if ever, focuses on the impact on society and culture the…
Nicole WilliamsOctober 16, 2019
I recently relocated--with any luck, temporarily--to a sprawling metroplex of a city of almost seven million,…
Leslie AlexanderOctober 14, 2019
One could argue that there are two basic visions for America: the Hamiltonian and the…
Allen MendenhallOctober 11, 2019
A recent National Review column in the silly Northern War over 1619 contained this unfortunate…
Aaron GleasonOctober 10, 2019
Where did the belief in the "black Confederate soldier" originate? Did it begin in 1977,…
Shane AndersonOctober 9, 2019
Those of us whose experience goes back a way into the last century, can remember…
Clyde WilsonOctober 7, 2019
Every now and then an acquaintance who reads what I write will ask me: “Boyd,…
Boyd CatheyOctober 4, 2019
These days, we see many politicians pushing relentlessly for gun control. In the wake of…
Michael MartinOctober 3, 2019
The 150th season of college football serves as a reminder of the intersection between sports…
Brian KossOctober 2, 2019
George Mason, like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, was happiest at home, either in the…
Brett MoffattSeptember 30, 2019
Conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager has become a YouTube success with his five-minute videos…
Philip LeighSeptember 27, 2019
A book condemning the left-wing bias of one of the most widely read and educationally…
John MarquardtSeptember 26, 2019
What does the South have to offer that is valuable to humanity, to civilization? In…
Karen StokesSeptember 25, 2019
I recently read a report of a professor who declared that he had come sadly…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 23, 2019
Southerners love home. This is true of many people throughout history, but place has, in…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 20, 2019
This article originally appeared on www.TheAmericanConservative.com. Copyright 2019 From the colonial era well into the…
John Shelton ReedSeptember 19, 2019
From late 1983 until its fitful demise in the early 2000s, I served as a…
Boyd CatheySeptember 18, 2019
Increasingly, America’s past is becoming a lightning rod for contemporary ideological struggles. Colleges, highways and…
John GroveSeptember 16, 2019
Prager U and the American Battlefield Trust recently teamed-up to sponsor this six minute video by Princeton…
Philip LeighSeptember 13, 2019
Professor Allen Guelzo has a new video at Prager U “explaining” the “good, bad, and…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 12, 2019
In his recent book, Call Sign Chaos : Learning To Lead, former Secretary of Defense…
John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2019
Southerners, of all Americans, have been the most acute and the most persistent in their…
Boyd CatheySeptember 9, 2019
The Colonial Parkway connects Jamestowne and WIlliamsburg with the third leg of Virginia’s HIstoric Triangle-Yorktown. …
Brett MoffattSeptember 6, 2019
Leaders of every nation do what they think is in their countries’ immediate best interest…
Norman BlackSeptember 5, 2019
Old slave and planter graves a flight apart For thrushes eating seeds of grass and…
David MiddletonSeptember 4, 2019
In what passes for political and cultural discourse today, the term “populist” is something of…
John DevannySeptember 2, 2019
This essay was presented at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on the New South.…
Philip LeighAugust 30, 2019
On May 17, 2019, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 5: Equality Act—better…
James Ronald KennedyAugust 29, 2019
Lack of attachment to culture, heritage, and tradition is the death of a nation. As…
Nicole WilliamsAugust 28, 2019
Louisiana is a state accustomed to incredibly incompetent and corrupt public officials, especially in the…
Samuel W. MitchamAugust 26, 2019
In 1866, a year after taking the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at…
Gerald LefurgyAugust 23, 2019
When most Americans hear the word slavery today, their minds instantly conjure up only images…
John MarquardtAugust 22, 2019
This essay was presented at our 2019 Summer School on The New South. James Strom…
Michael MartinAugust 21, 2019
In a recent column, “Nationalism vs. Secession: Should America Break Up? (July 27), I included…
Boyd CatheyAugust 19, 2019
A semantic technique that has worked well for political types is renaming things to make…
Gail JarvisAugust 16, 2019
Before there was any New England in the North, there was something very like Old…
Garrett AgajanianAugust 15, 2019
This essay was presented at our 2019 Summer School on the New South. Fundamentalism is…
John DevannyAugust 14, 2019
Does anyone remember United States Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.? I mean, for something other…
Andrew P. CalhounAugust 12, 2019
This essay was originally published in The Lasting South (Regnery, 1957). Recently when Bertrand Russell…
Clifford DowdeyAugust 7, 2019
Mr. Leigh presented this paper at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on The New…
Philip LeighAugust 5, 2019
There is a question that increasingly arises, uncomfortably, in our conversations…from brief exchanges at work…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2019
Earlier this month, prominent names in the conservative movement gathered in Washington, DC, for a…
Allen MendenhallAugust 1, 2019
In 1715, Colonial Governor Charles Craven remarked that his front line troops in the fight…
Brion McClanahanJuly 31, 2019
George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson trod the roads of this area as the…
Brett MoffattJuly 29, 2019
As noted in earlier posts, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and many academic historians…
Philip LeighJuly 26, 2019
Most of us, even the youngest, have heard of the magnificent Disney film, “Song of…
Boyd CatheyJuly 25, 2019
Then Lytle asked: Who are the dead? Who are the living and the dead? Allen Tate,…
Thomas HubertJuly 24, 2019
Sooner or later any student of the War for Southern Independence will run across discussion…
Shane AndersonJuly 22, 2019
On February 4, 2002, a current member of the United States Supreme Court gave the…
Rev. Larry BeaneJuly 19, 2019
I had some correspondence with an editor of the Post and Courier this week when…
Gene Kizer, Jr.July 18, 2019
Illinois’ Governor J.B. Pritzer has banned the Southern rock band Confederate Railroad from the Illinois…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 17, 2019
I am always annoyed when a conservative political leader attacks Southern heritage. I don’t know…
Samuel W. MitchamJuly 15, 2019
Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) defended the South both during and after the War Between the…
Zachary GarrisJuly 12, 2019
A bill to establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs was introduced in the House of…
Bernard ThuersamJuly 11, 2019
There is a modern notion among the Republicans and their most vocal acolytes such as…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 10, 2019
As someone who grew up during the decade of the 1960’s, I am paying attention…
Timothy A. DuskinJuly 8, 2019
“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of…
Joel T. LeggettJuly 5, 2019
The poem was written shortly after Mr. Lytle's death in 1995. I intended it to…
James Everett KiblerJuly 3, 2019
Joe Biden is at it again. The longtime senator from Delaware, former Vice President of…
Houston MiddletonJuly 1, 2019
Virginia’s Historic Triangle: Jamestowne, Williamsburg and Yorktowne encompasses the first permanent English settlement in America,…
Brett MoffattJune 28, 2019
Many who are well acquainted with Southern history are almost entirely unfamiliar with the historical…
William E. DoddJune 27, 2019
Original material for Southern history has been so scarce at the centres where American historiographers…
Ulrich B. PhillipsJune 26, 2019
Battle of Secessionville Commemoration Address by Gene Kizer, Jr. on the battle site at Fort…
Gene Kizer, Jr.June 24, 2019
I am honored to speak at the graduation from high school of these young men…
Joe WolvertonJune 21, 2019
Congress has a far greater number of wealthy people than the general population. Consequently, the…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 20, 2019
The writings of Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) often read like prophecy. After the War Between…
Zachary GarrisJune 19, 2019
But Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge is a worshipper of Hamilton, whom Giles hated, and an…
D.A. AndersonJune 17, 2019
There is in some of our libraries a certain book which the writer of this…
Jeffrey R. BrackettJune 14, 2019
To those Americans who revere him—sadly, a dwindling number these days—Robert E. Lee is still…
Stephen M. KlugewiczJune 13, 2019
Genetically engineered crops have been grown in large numbers across the States since 1996. These…
Walt GarlingtonJune 12, 2019
Secession, nullification, and interposition, like the poor, we shall always have with us. These are…
John DevannyJune 10, 2019
Silent Sam was a Confederate statue that stood on the University of North Carolina campus…
Philip LeighJune 7, 2019
Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of the nation's greatest Presidents. He is the…
Michael SchearerJune 6, 2019
Over the years I have known a few—very few—politicians whom I have admired greatly. It…
Boyd CatheyJune 5, 2019
I want to tell you a story that you won’t read in the mainstream news.…
Marcus Ruiz EvansJune 3, 2019
One argument used by those wanting to remove Confederate statues is that contemporary blacks had little…
Philip LeighMay 31, 2019
Catholic and non-Catholic Southerners alike have reason to mourn the loss of Father James Schall,…
Jerry SalyerMay 30, 2019
It’s telling indeed that while everyone, irrespectively of political partisanship, can’t refer to “racism” enough,…
Jack KerwickMay 29, 2019
Noblest of martyrs in a glorious fight! Ye died to save the cause of Truth…
James Ryder RandallMay 27, 2019
I attended a protest to tear down the John C. Calhoun monument in Charleston on…
Michael MartinMay 23, 2019
On August 22, 2018, Forbes Magazine published an article written by Kristina Killgrove entitled "Scholars…
Shane AndersonMay 22, 2019
Prager University has a video presentation, “American values” which is no more than historical fiction.…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 17, 2019
The Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Commission of the Virginia General Assembly announced that it will spend…
Philip LeighMay 16, 2019
We have seen how Mississippi, with its campus free speech bill, totally ignored its own…
Walt GarlingtonMay 15, 2019
One of the great issues of American political history is whether an authentic American conservatism…
John DevannyMay 13, 2019
The first English settlement in what is now Hampton was started in 1610, when Colonist…
Brett MoffattMay 10, 2019
Most people believe the novel 1984 by George Orwell was about some futuristic dystopia. Published…
Michael MartinMay 9, 2019
As a stalwart Southerner who came of age before the 1960s, its hard to believe…
Gail JarvisMay 8, 2019
Jabez Lafayette Monroe Curry was one of the major political figures of the Old South.…
John ChodesMay 6, 2019
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