Earlier this month, prominent names in the conservative movement gathered in Washington, DC, for a…
Allen MendenhallAugust 1, 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.…
Fred IrlandMay 6, 2019
The image of Richard Weaver that sticks in my memory is a disturbing one. He…
Thomas LandessMay 3, 2019
Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were only the beginning. For anyone that believed American…
Brion McClanahanMay 2, 2019
A week ago Sunday—Easter Sunday, April 21—Aaron D. Wolf, Executive Editor of Chronicles Magazine, passed…
Boyd CatheyMay 1, 2019
Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirrs…
Allen TateApril 29, 2019
History is remembered as a narrative, not facts and figures. If the story is told…
Philip LeighApril 26, 2019
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS 22 April 2019 American by birth -- Southern by the grace…
John A. EidsmoeApril 25, 2019
If you’ve come across some of the other things I’ve written for Abbeville, you might…
Tom DanielApril 24, 2019
Stretching from the Potomac River across the southeastern quarter of the United States in a…
Richard M. WeaverApril 22, 2019
So, smart moms in two homeschool social-media groups of which I’m a member are super-excited…
Dissident MamaApril 19, 2019
Of all the American vice-presidents, none is more vilified than John C. Calhoun. Calhoun is…
Brion McClanahanApril 18, 2019
“It is out of fashion these days to look backward rather than forward,” the poet…
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.April 17, 2019
To the student of the Classics the most interesting thing in the Library of Congress…
Give AdminApril 12, 2019
'The Journalist & The General' Thomas Morris Chester, the war correspondent in the Eastern Theater…
Gerald LefurgyApril 11, 2019
A decisive moment is coming for the peoples of the States, especially for those who…
Walt GarlingtonApril 10, 2019
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of U.S. Grant’s inauguration as President of the United States.…
Brion McClanahanApril 8, 2019
Strom Thurmond was born in Edgefield, South Carolina, in 1902 and lived to be over…
Michael MartinApril 5, 2019
Compatriots, how do y'all seek to maintain alive the Confederate heritage within your family &…
Alphonse-Louis VinhApril 4, 2019
Reparations for the deserving.? Who gets the money? Who gives up the money? Who owes…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 3, 2019
Most every Thursday I gather with a group of friends for lunch at some restaurant…
Boyd CatheyApril 1, 2019
You don’t see much on the continued attack and removal of war memorials in the…
Lee CongletonMarch 29, 2019
“Fatti Maschii Parole Femine”1 In July of 1861, Union troops aboard the Chesapeake Bay steamer…
J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2019
The Hall of Fame recently dedicated at New York University was conceived from the Ruhmes…
Fred H. CoxMarch 27, 2019
In 1966, Senator Jim Eastland of Mississippi walked into the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked,…
Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2019
I need to tell you one story in order to tell you another. The Czechoslovakian…
Tom DanielMarch 22, 2019
Editor's Note: During the height of the Silent Sam protests in the Summer of 2017,…
Jonathan HarrisMarch 21, 2019
Some lawmakers in Mississippi, obviously alarmed at the violent demonstrations and restrictive measures at college…
Walt GarlingtonMarch 20, 2019
The sketch is necessarily imperfect, from the want of official records. Most of these were…
William J. HardeeMarch 18, 2019
'Their revolution (the South in 1861) ... was in fact an act of restoration, for…
Vito MussomeliMarch 15, 2019
In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote: If the Civil War is more alive to…
Philip LeighMarch 14, 2019
Athletes gain money when they gain attention. Just like Congressmen. Ole Miss basketball players kneel…
Paul H. YarbroughMarch 13, 2019
For thirty-one years the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has sponsored…
Boyd CatheyMarch 11, 2019
On a February 2017 episode of televangelist Pat Robertson’s “The 700 club,” a viewer sent…
Michael MartinMarch 8, 2019
Whoever weds himself to the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in…
Philip LeighMarch 7, 2019
During the weekend of 15 to 16 February, I had the great honor to represent…
Robert McReynoldsMarch 6, 2019
The chattering class’ newest obsession, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has seized the policy initiative from the Democratic…
John DevannyMarch 4, 2019
Southeast Virginia is a region rich in history, from the earliest colonial times to today’s…
Brett MoffattMarch 1, 2019
The so-called Civil Rights movement began in the mid-1950s with goals of ending segregation and…
Gail JarvisFebruary 28, 2019
Right wing radio personalities need no excuse to engage in South-bashing, but the recent events…
J.L. BennettFebruary 27, 2019
Pat Caddell died on February 16. Several major news outlets ran stories about his influence…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 25, 2019
“I plainly perceive that the time will come when a shirt shall not be washed…
Joe WolvertonFebruary 22, 2019
It was an indelible moment, one that has resonated with me up to the present…
Randall IveyFebruary 21, 2019
“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Among Catholic students of political thought, few…
Jerry SalyerFebruary 20, 2019
In the popular imagination the South is viewed as a region typified by racism, poverty,…
John DevannyFebruary 18, 2019
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institutes, Feb 11-15, 2019 Topics: Southern history, Political…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 16, 2019
In this age of political correctness it may surprise people that there were three TV…
Jeff WolvertonFebruary 15, 2019
I usually don’t engage in online arguments and discussions because I know I’m not the…
Barbara MarthalFebruary 14, 2019
Given what is occurring in our society and culture, the ever increasing frenzy and hysteria…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 13, 2019
There is an old Chinese curse the English translation of which is “May you live…
Houston MiddletonFebruary 11, 2019
Even among the most Grant-partial historians there’s no denying that Ulysses Grant and his wife…
Philip LeighFebruary 8, 2019
“The revenue of the state is the state.” Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution…
John DevannyFebruary 7, 2019
Presented at the Lee-Jackson Banquet, Finley’s Brigade Camp 1614 - Tallahassee, Florida, 19 January 2019…
Paul C. GrahamFebruary 6, 2019
Watching NBC’s TODAY program on Tuesday, January 23, 2019, there was anchor Savannah Guthrie demanding…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 4, 2019
Texas will turn blue before it’s over with its local Neocons in charge. Former sports…
Paul H. YarbroughFebruary 1, 2019
In the ongoing war against Southern Confederate heritage, we need to be cognizant of the…
Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 31, 2019
Suffering from a nasty bacterial infection, the insomnia induced by a lamp kept lit in…
Jerry SalyerJanuary 30, 2019
The Southern political tradition, in practice and theory, is one of its most valuable contributions…
Donald LivingstonJanuary 28, 2019
When Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo issued a ruling on the Alabama Memorial Preservation…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 24, 2019
The dominant powers in American discourse today have succeeded in confining the South to a…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2019
The White House, Washington, January 16, 1907. To the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, Chairman, Chief…
Theodore RooseveltJanuary 21, 2019
The South is and always been conservative. But with the constant hammer of political correctness…
Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 18, 2019
On the stump in New Boston, New Hampshire in early January 1852, Franklin Pierce gave…
Michael J. ConnollyJanuary 17, 2019
The presidential election of 2016 gave promise to be a watershed in American politics. Donald…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2019
Many years ago the historian Francis Parkman wrote a passage in one of his narratives…
Richard M. WeaverJanuary 14, 2019
One summer day in Paris, France, just a year after the Great War, a former…
Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 11, 2019
When one grows old one tends to resent wasting time and there is nothing that…
Valerie ProtopapasJanuary 10, 2019
The destruction of Confederate monuments and the slandering of all things Confederate is in vogue…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 9, 2019
None knew it then, but in 1915, Southern agrarian influence on the movies was at…
Norman StewartJanuary 7, 2019
Oh! a wonderful stream is the river of Time, As it runs through the realm…
Philo HendersonDecember 31, 2018
On one fine evening, in which winter’s chill hung in the air and the stars…
Lewis LibermanDecember 25, 2018
In 1875, Rev. Moses Drury Hoge stood before 40,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, at the…
Brion McClanahanDecember 21, 2018
William Plumer Jacobs (1842-1917), a native of Yorkville, South Carolina, was a Presbyterian minister and…
Karen StokesDecember 20, 2018
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” – H. L. Mencken “Let…
John DevannyDecember 19, 2018
The Abbeville Institute conducted three conferences this year on the fracturing of American national identity…
Donald LivingstonDecember 17, 2018
Why do Southerners continue to fall into that trap where we only talk about the…
Tom DanielDecember 14, 2018
President Trump recently used his executive powers to designate a national monument to honor African…
Michael MartinDecember 12, 2018
In November 2018 Will Hiott, Director and Curator of Historic Properties at Clemson University, included…
Andrew P. CalhounDecember 10, 2018
Thomas Johnson was born in Calvert County, Maryland, on his father's lands near the mouth…
M.E. BradfordDecember 7, 2018
Andrew Johnson was born into poverty in rural North Carolina. His father died after saving…
Michael MartinDecember 6, 2018
On November 10, 2018, the Abbeville Institute hosted an event called The Revival of Nullification…
Suzanne ShermanDecember 5, 2018
For all of the pontificating of the virtues of the South, we have increasingly seen…
Nicole WilliamsDecember 3, 2018
The King of Rock and Roll brought himself up by his bootstraps, served Uncle Sam…
Paul H. YarbroughNovember 30, 2018
Yesterday The Washington Post published an Op-Ed by former General Stanley McChrystal in which he boasted of…
Philip LeighNovember 29, 2018
The news came Thursday, November 15, that country music legend, Virginia-born Roy Clark had passed…
Boyd CatheyNovember 28, 2018
As the brilliant American military victory in the Persian Gulf approaches its second anniversary, the…
Doug BostickNovember 26, 2018
In the spirit of historical course correction, I herewith submit some thoughts to those who…
Joseph R. StrombergNovember 23, 2018
Citizens of Dixie…. This is a call to arms, or rather, a call to your…
Brett MoffattNovember 22, 2018
The opinion has been often stated that Edgar Allan Poe was bizarre and amoral; that…
Robert E. MerryNovember 21, 2018
From the front porch, Jakob Emig could look across fields where his winter wheat greened…
James Everett KiblerNovember 19, 2018
We are threatened by a powerful, dangerous, conspiracy of evil men. The conspiracy is the…
Ludwell H. JohnsonNovember 16, 2018
Secession? Nullification? A second Civil War in the presently not-so United States of America? According…
Matthew SilberNovember 15, 2018
Nationalist Jeff Sessions gets canned and a nullifier takes his job. This is actually an…
Brion McClanahanNovember 14, 2018
Prehistoric warfare was total war in which victors normally killed all enemy women, children, and…
Norman BlackNovember 12, 2018
The study of history cannot be neatly contained behind the tall foreboding doors of an…
Jonathan HarrisNovember 9, 2018
I recently traveled with ten undergraduate students to the Conference on Faith and History (CFH)…
Samuel C. SmithNovember 8, 2018
I grew up in Summerville, South Carolina, just a few miles from historic Charleston. This…
Michael MartinNovember 7, 2018
When National Socialism came to power in Germany in 1933, it sought an ethnic and…
Timothy A. DuskinNovember 5, 2018
The latest in Lincoln polemics comes courtesy of Rich Lowry, editor of National Review. In…
Jack KerwickNovember 2, 2018
Retired General Stanley McChrystal who never led troops in a winning war bravely threw out…
Paul H. YarbroughNovember 1, 2018
Pro-Southern writers have long been suspicious of Victor Davis Hanson, given his association with the…
Jerry SalyerOctober 31, 2018
Greetings fellow neo-Confederates. You have been right all along. How do I know this? Hillary…
Brion McClanahanOctober 29, 2018
In 21st–century America, it’s difficult to imagine life without the ability to access information at…
Forrest L. MarionOctober 26, 2018
Constitutional Violation: Amendment One. Freedom of Speech Denied. Vallandigham Imprisoned in Ohio. “From the beginning to…
John M. TaylorOctober 25, 2018
Was the Old South Feudal? Eugene Genovese wrote several works on antebellum slavery that essentially…
Michael MartinOctober 24, 2018
“Politics makes for strange bedfellows.” The 2016 Presidential election of Donald Trump produced the wedding…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 22, 2018
Despite the establishment attempts to throttle free speech—most recently actions taken by PayPal, by Google,…
Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2018
In the past few weeks two major interrelated events took place in these once United…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyOctober 18, 2018
“History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Attributed to Mark Twain Americans at…
John DevannyOctober 17, 2018
On June 20, 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Crawford: “If any state in the…
Donald LivingstonOctober 15, 2018
Having traveled in all fifty states, I must admit there are certain areas of this…
Cary LindsayOctober 12, 2018
There was a time, before universal white male suffrage and the closing of the frontier,…
Michael MartinOctober 11, 2018
Mel Bradford's outstanding tome A Better Guide Than Reason lifted that phrase from a speech…
Brion McClanahanOctober 10, 2018
Why does congress have hearings for people who are paraded through their judiciary committee- noise…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 8, 2018
A Short Story of a Dystopian America To my fellow Associates: My name is Diversity-26,…
Lewis LibermanOctober 5, 2018
In some ways, historians are like anyone else: they hate to make mistakes. But if…
Samuel W. MitchamOctober 4, 2018
The following is a letter-to-the-editor of the Charleston, SC Post and Courier September 15, 2018…
Gene Kizer, Jr.October 3, 2018
“Nashville’s going to be a progressive, diverse city and there’s nothing that you can do…
James Rutledge RoeschOctober 1, 2018
The whole 20th century was a horrible time for the friends of tradition: the mild…
Walt GarlingtonSeptember 28, 2018
There is a dichotomy to how people view Jesse James. While some have viewed him…
Michael MartinSeptember 27, 2018
Writing about the “Great Triumvirate” of Webster, Clay, and Calhoun during the third Nullification controversy…
W. Kirk WoodSeptember 26, 2018
The 1850s is viewed by most scholars as the crucial decade of the sectional crisis…
John DevannySeptember 24, 2018
Back in 1958, when I was fifteen years old, I made the most critical and…
Cary LindsaySeptember 21, 2018
Some claim offense by the red white and blue image of the Confederate Battle flag…
Lola SanchezSeptember 20, 2018
Editor's Note: The text is taken from Tom Skeyhill's, His Own Life Story And War…
Alvin C. YorkSeptember 19, 2018
Proposals to turn national programs over to the states are abound in Washington. The failure…
William J. WatkinsSeptember 17, 2018
Galactic Imperium News Service (GINS) Special Report: Will Democrats and Republicans in America finally set…
Lewis LibermanSeptember 14, 2018
“Why don’t you get a tractor? You could get more done.” “Don’t need more done.”…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 13, 2018
Constitutional Violation: Amendment One: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or…
John M. TaylorSeptember 12, 2018
When the evolution of presidential power in early American history is discussed, it is sometimes…
Dave BennerSeptember 10, 2018
On October 31, 1910—seven years after the Wright Brother’s first airplane flight of less than…
Philip LeighSeptember 7, 2018
Much of John C. Calhoun’s criticism stems from his 1837 speech in the Senate where…
Michael MartinSeptember 6, 2018
The punitive “preclearance” regime under the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”) of 1965, imposed on seven…
Michael ArnheimSeptember 5, 2018
Many of us in the South have maintained our faith in the Constitutional right of…
James Ronald KennedySeptember 3, 2018
The “Fake News” appellation has been applied to just about every outlet that presents itself…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 31, 2018
There is a tendency for each generation to assume its opinions are the ultimate correct…
Gail JarvisAugust 30, 2018
In June 2017, The Atlantic published a hit-piece on Robert E. Lee titled "The Myth of…
Brion McClanahanAugust 29, 2018
Most mainstream historians point to the “Cornerstone” speech by Alexander Stephens as the clearest piece…
Michael MartinAugust 27, 2018
There is a 1909 “Lincoln penny” attached to the probe arm of Curiosity, a unit…
Malcolm McNeillAugust 24, 2018
On Monday night, August 20, 2018, approximately 200 to 250 raucous demonstrators gathered in a…
Boyd CatheyAugust 23, 2018
In September of 1961, I left my job at a basket factory in Wilmington, North…
Ben JonesAugust 22, 2018
Jimmy Carter may have been the last Jeffersonian to be president. A recent article in…
Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2018
Because we live in such a hurried time, we hear countless “noises” but have little…
Michael MartinAugust 16, 2018
In October 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the executive…
Brion McClanahanAugust 15, 2018
The 1970’s were an interesting time in the South. The 1970's were the last time…
Jeff RogersAugust 13, 2018
In the book The Mystery of the Wonder-Worker of Ostrog, the main character, Mladjen, a…
Walt GarlingtonAugust 10, 2018
In a PBS interview seven years ago historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust identified slavery…
Philip LeighAugust 9, 2018
Southward Returning To you, Virginia, Tennessee, To Georgia’s red roads, to the past That binds…
Donald DavidsonAugust 8, 2018
In case you haven’t heard, there is a new “conservative” film out; it is titled…
Boyd CatheyAugust 6, 2018
Sometime around 1939, Lead Belly sang the song Daddy I’m Coming Back to You, which…
Michael MartinAugust 3, 2018
“Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty.…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 2, 2018
Whether it's the Civil War, War Between the States, the War for Southern Independence or…
Lewis LibermanAugust 1, 2018
This essay is Chapter 13 in Mr. Taylor's Union At All Costs: From Confederation to…
John M. TaylorJuly 30, 2018
The War Between the States is called by many names, the most genteel being “The…
John DevannyJuly 27, 2018
Following the senseless racial murders at a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015, Hollywood’s moonshining…
John MarquardtJuly 26, 2018
The leading authority on this aspect of affirmative action is Schuette v. Coalition to Defend…
Michael ArnheimJuly 25, 2018
The Tricentennial celebration of New Orleans has stirred much interest into different facets of the city’s history.…
Kurt FromherzJuly 23, 2018
Southerners confronted by Northerners touring our section are made aware of the difference in their…
Laurie HibbettJuly 20, 2018
Last November, when President Bush issued an executive order establishing a system of military commissions…
Ludwell H. JohnsonJuly 19, 2018
James Iredell was born at Lewes, Sussex County, England. He was the eldest of the…
M.E. BradfordJuly 18, 2018
There are many examples of heroism that illustrate spiritedness in America’s history. Indeed, the American…
Benjamin AlexanderJuly 16, 2018
They were standing at the ledge. Their view mirrored a panorama of buildings and smoke…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 13, 2018
"Lincoln, under no circumstances, would I vote for ... So, I say, stand by the…
Vito MussomeliJuly 12, 2018
In the film version of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, after Atlanta has been…
Robin Spencer LattimoreJuly 11, 2018
Is the South today a captive nation? Most Southerners would never consider the question—most likely…
James Ronald KennedyJuly 9, 2018
In his important 1994 work, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism,…
Forrest L. MarionJuly 6, 2018
The bloody conflict of 1861 to 1865 is often called the Civil War, but most…
Karen StokesJuly 4, 2018
Richard Henry Lee was a patriot, Anti-Federalist, and statesman from his “country,” Virginia. He led…
Brion McClanahanJuly 2, 2018
The diagram below graphs the number of Confederate statues erected between 1870 and 1980. Since…
Philip LeighJune 29, 2018
The Electoral College, a bulwark of federalism, is under attack. Straightforward abolition of the Electoral…
Michael ArnheimJune 28, 2018
One of the foremost scholars of the Southern Cause lives in New Market, Virginia. He…
Louis T. MarchJune 27, 2018
On June 19, 1865, Union forces arrived in Galveston, Texas and declared to the population…
Timothy A. DuskinJune 25, 2018
Sound was the first victim of the attack on southern heritage. In October 1971, the…
Michael MartinJune 22, 2018
There are neither Confederate monuments to be torn down in Japan nor Battle Flags to…
John MarquardtJune 20, 2018
Were Robert E. Lee and the Confederates “traitors” who violated their oaths to the Constitution…
Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2018
Fort Sumter was the beginning not only of a bloody conflict, but it forged a…
Norman E. RourkeJune 15, 2018
It was Wednesday, April 19, 1865. The Confederate States of America lay prostrate under the…
David E. JohnsonJune 14, 2018
“Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or…
Aaron WolfJune 13, 2018
The quote below indirectly warns about the implications of Confederate statue removals and the…
Philip LeighJune 11, 2018
The Phoenix, Arizona city council has been forced by self-declared “Satanists” to cease opening its…
Joe WolvertonJune 8, 2018
History is the propaganda of the victorious. - Voltaire According to an explanation of “The…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 7, 2018
Picture it. A book store in Madison, Wisconsin, in the mid-’90s. Quite the unlikely place…
Dissident MamaJune 6, 2018
Confederate West Virginia has always been an enigma. A bright fellow riding through Monroe County…
Frank BallJune 4, 2018
I've always been fascinated by those tricky slogans politicians and social activists use to dupe…
Gail JarvisJune 1, 2018
Our culture has, of late, become rather fixated on the idea that every historical figure…
R.M. StanglerMay 31, 2018
After the Charleston shooting in 2015, all across the old Confederacy memorials, monuments, flags and…
Boyd CatheyMay 30, 2018
“When you are up to your hindquarters in alligators—it is hard to remember that your…
James Ronald KennedyMay 28, 2018
Given that the Star Wars franchise seems to have degenerated into yet another vehicle for…
Jerry SalyerMay 25, 2018
When the majority of people think of the Ku Klux Klan, there undoubtedly comes to…
John MarquardtMay 24, 2018
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