Blog “The Penmen of the Secession” About ten years ago, I was invited to participate in a cemetery tour in Auburn,…Tom DanielJuly 16, 2014
Blog The Fighting Gamecock The University of South Carolina mascot is somewhat of a joke among SEC football fans.…Brion McClanahanJuly 16, 2014
Blog Presidents Quiz *What American President launched a massive invasion of another country that posed no threat, and…Clyde WilsonJuly 15, 2014
Blog The Wizard of the Saddle One of the greatest men in American history was born on this date (July 13)…Clyde WilsonJuly 14, 2014
Blog What Every Southern Man Should Be Able To Do I was killing time the other day in my office looking through human interest websites…Tom DanielJuly 14, 2014
Blog A Black Armband for Southern Education Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in an effort to combat the “dark Federalist…Brion McClanahanJuly 11, 2014
Blog “We Say Grace and We Say Ma’am” I’m afraid we may be looking at an upcoming generation of Southern children who don’t…Tom DanielJuly 10, 2014
Blog Hollywood’s South: Family Night Down Home Last in a six part series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part…Clyde WilsonJuly 10, 2014
Blog Confederate Coca-Cola Today (July 8) is Lt. Col. John Stith Pemberton's birthday. While not as important to…Brion McClanahanJuly 8, 2014
Blog The Beatles vs Alabama On April 4, 1964, The Beatles achieved American chart success that will almost certainly never…Tom DanielJuly 7, 2014
Blog Rethinking the Declaration of Independence The article originally was published by Townhall.com on July 4, 2010. Thomas Jefferson wrote in…Brion McClanahanJuly 4, 2014
Blog July 4- What Exactly are We Celebrating? On July 2, 1776 the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from the English Crown.…Carl JonesJuly 4, 2014
Blog Why Vicksburg Canceled the Fourth of July – For a Generation From May through early July 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi, a strategically important city on the Mississippi…Karen StokesJuly 2, 2014
Blog Rose of Dixie Few American authors wrote as many stories set in the old South as William Sydney…Gail JarvisJuly 1, 2014
Blog Party Down South The trailer (end of the piece) for the second season of Country Music Television’s “Party…James Rutledge RoeschJuly 1, 2014
Blog Rebel Yell Notwithstanding Ole Miss fans, those opening few bars of “Dixie” sends chills down the back…Tom DanielJune 30, 2014
Blog Carolina Day Throw thy bold banner to the breeze! Front with thy ranks the threatening seas Like…Paul C. GrahamJune 27, 2014
Blog The Republic of Alabama The Republic of Alabama existed for a little less than a month in 1861. When…Brion McClanahanJune 24, 2014
Blog Hollywood’s New South (Part 5 of a 6-part series on the South in cinema) Part 1, Part 2,…Clyde WilsonJune 24, 2014
Blog Who Should Play Hank? Tom Hiddleston, an English actor best known for playing Loki in the Thor and Avengers…Dan E. PhillipsJune 23, 2014
Blog When Good Men Do Nothing On June 18, 1954, Albert Love Patterson, attorney general nominate for Alabama, was gunned down…Brion McClanahanJune 20, 2014
Blog Hollywood–South by West Part 4 in a 5 part series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. In 1902…Clyde WilsonJune 20, 2014
Blog Southern Nicknames One of the unwritten great things about the South is our obsession with colorful nicknames.…Tom DanielJune 19, 2014
Blog “When the American Nation Finds Itself Culturally . . .” Hermann Keyserling was an Austrian writer quite well-known internationally in the early 20th century for…Clyde WilsonJune 19, 2014
Blog Bellamy’s Pledge The Pledge of Allegiance is neither a sacred American tradition nor a patriotic duty, but…James Rutledge RoeschJune 18, 2014
Blog You Should Have Seen It In Color For any historian, seeing or hearing the past, holding it in your hand, is almost…Brion McClanahanJune 17, 2014
Blog Rednecks You can count me out of the trendy Redneck Renaissance going on. I guess I’m…Tom DanielJune 17, 2014
Blog We’re Them Ol’ Boys Raised on Shotguns When the Celtic people of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern England began coming in large…Carl JonesJune 16, 2014
Blog American Soccer Fandom as Cosmopolitan Affectation Recently, Major League Soccer announced that it would be expanding into Atlanta. I like to…Dan E. PhillipsJune 13, 2014
Blog Ukrainian Dixie Flag When the fascist regime ruling Ukraine banned the use of the Russian language, arrested Ukrainians…James Rutledge RoeschJune 13, 2014
Blog On Being Asked About If I ever got started writing about Southern good manners, I’m not sure I could…Tom DanielJune 12, 2014
Blog Clyde N. Wilson Most people don't know, but today (June 11) is Clyde Wilson's birthday. I had the…Brion McClanahanJune 11, 2014
Blog “I cannot speak of my dead so soon.” After his release from imprisonment in 1867, President Jefferson Davis journeyed to Canada where he…Bernard ThuersamJune 11, 2014
Blog King Numbers June 2 was John Randolph of Roanoke's (1773-1833) birthday. We at the Abbeville Institute missed…Brion McClanahanJune 10, 2014
Blog “I cannot fight against the Constitution while pretending to fight for it.” During the time of the secession of South Carolina and other Southern states, and after…Karen StokesJune 9, 2014
Blog De Tocqueville and the South I’ve been perplexed about Tocqueville’s posture towards the South for quite some time. On the…Marshall DeRosaJune 6, 2014
Blog Mo’lasses This piece originally appeared in the May 30, 2014 edition of the The Bowling Green…Michele KayalJune 5, 2014
Blog Farewell Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Blog Farewell Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Blog Conservatives for War Criminals? I regularly get bulk e-mails from a website called Clash Daily, which is run by…Dan E. PhillipsJune 2, 2014
Blog Hollywood’s South — 20th Century Wars (3rd in a 5-part series) Hollywood’s treatment of Southerners in the vast output of World…Clyde WilsonMay 30, 2014
Blog Whistlin’ Dixie Loud Enough to Brag Many music fans believe Southern rock died in 1977 when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashed in…Brion McClanahanMay 30, 2014
Blog Hollywood’s South — 20th Century Wars (3rd in a 5-part series) Hollywood’s treatment of Southerners in the vast output of World…Clyde WilsonMay 30, 2014
Blog Whistlin’ Dixie Loud Enough to Brag Many music fans believe Southern rock died in 1977 when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashed in…Brion McClanahanMay 30, 2014
Blog “Liberty Ought to be the Direct End of Your Government” One of the greatest American statesmen, Patrick Henry, was born on this day (May 29)…Brion McClanahanMay 29, 2014
Blog “Liberty Ought to be the Direct End of Your Government” One of the greatest American statesmen, Patrick Henry, was born on this day (May 29)…Brion McClanahanMay 29, 2014
Blog Confederate Hollywood Part 2 In Part 1 we demonstrated how during Hollywood’s Golden Age nearly every Northern-born major star…Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2014
Blog Confederate Hollywood Part 2 In Part 1 we demonstrated how during Hollywood’s Golden Age nearly every Northern-born major star…Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2014
Blog Ron Maxwell’s Civil War Classics Dear Civil War enthusiasts, students, re-enactors, historians, friends, Over a lifetime of reading and research,…Ronald F. MaxwellMay 27, 2014
Blog “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” They say that writing is good for the soul, and my soul needs something good.…Tom DanielMay 27, 2014
Blog Ron Maxwell’s Civil War Classics Dear Civil War enthusiasts, students, re-enactors, historians, friends, Over a lifetime of reading and research,…Ronald F. MaxwellMay 27, 2014
Blog “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” They say that writing is good for the soul, and my soul needs something good.…Tom DanielMay 27, 2014
Blog The Other Side of Slavery The concept of a faithful slave goes against today's authorized slave narratives. Before the social…Gail JarvisMay 26, 2014
Blog The Other Side of Slavery The concept of a faithful slave goes against today's authorized slave narratives. Before the social…Gail JarvisMay 26, 2014
Blog Albion’s Seed: Cavaliers and Puritans Random observations from reading David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed (which I've not yet finished)- Ain't,…Carl JonesMay 23, 2014
Blog Albion’s Seed: Cavaliers and Puritans Random observations from reading David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed (which I've not yet finished)- Ain't,…Carl JonesMay 23, 2014
Blog Cheesehead Secessionists In April, several members of the Wisconsin Republican Party inserted a resolution in the State…Brion McClanahanMay 22, 2014
Blog Hair Cane Creek In a recent Abbeville blog, I wrote about the correct pronunciation of the racetrack located…Tom DanielMay 22, 2014
Blog Cheesehead Secessionists In April, several members of the Wisconsin Republican Party inserted a resolution in the State…Brion McClanahanMay 22, 2014
Blog Hair Cane Creek In a recent Abbeville blog, I wrote about the correct pronunciation of the racetrack located…Tom DanielMay 22, 2014
Blog A Little Banjo Pickin’ Excerpted from “The Banjo Entertainers, Roots to Ragtime, A Banjo History,” by Lowell H. Schreyer,…Lowell H. SchreyerMay 21, 2014
Blog A Little Banjo Pickin’ Excerpted from “The Banjo Entertainers, Roots to Ragtime, A Banjo History,” by Lowell H. Schreyer,…Lowell H. SchreyerMay 21, 2014
Blog Centennial Wars Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Blog Centennial Wars Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Blog The Lyrics or Melody in Southern Music? About ten years ago, one of my colleagues suggested to me that Americans listen to…Tom DanielMay 19, 2014
Blog Truth At the annual reunion of the Alabama Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans I sat at…Carl JonesMay 19, 2014
Blog The Lyrics or Melody in Southern Music? About ten years ago, one of my colleagues suggested to me that Americans listen to…Tom DanielMay 19, 2014
Blog Confederate Hollywood—Those Were the Days! Having passed my allotted three score and ten, I realise that I have spent too…Clyde WilsonMay 16, 2014
Blog On the Hunt One of the greatest examples of the Southern tradition is a love of the great…Carl JonesMay 14, 2014
Blog “It’s a Trick General, There’s Two of Them!” Twenty years ago this Spring, I lost the greatest friend I never met, Lewis Grizzard.…Tom DanielMay 13, 2014
Blog Honouring Our Fathers Presented at the SC Sons of Confederate Veterans’ Confederate Memorial Day Commemoration South Carolina Statehouse,…Paul C. GrahamMay 12, 2014
Blog St. Elmo Most people who visit or live in Columbus, Georgia probably don't realize that one of…Brion McClanahanMay 9, 2014
Blog Starry-Eyed Varlet Tito Perdue is a self-described “problematic author” and “cultural reactionary.” His novels are bitter and…Mike C. TuggleMay 9, 2014
Blog College Football Yankees don’t understand the Southern obsession with college football, and if they don’t understand it,…Tom DanielMay 8, 2014
Blog Remember the Alamo! T.R. Fehrenbach, author of the magisterial classic Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans,…Clyde WilsonMay 7, 2014
Blog The Real Cornerstone Speech From Bernard Thuersam's website: Senator Robert Toombs and the Cornerstone of the Confederacy “GENTLEMEN OF…Bernard ThuersamMay 7, 2014
Blog The “Fighting Bishop” of Louisiana Leonidas Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806, the son and grandson of…Roger BusbiceMay 6, 2014
Blog Cliven Bundy and American Politics Cliven Bundy recently stepped in it with his impolitic racial comments. The unfortunate comments are…Marshall DeRosaMay 5, 2014
Blog “I Make American Citizens and Run Cotton Mills to Pay the Expenses.” The Callaway Gardens visitors center in Pine Mountain, Georgia shows a film explaining the history…Brion McClanahanMay 5, 2014
Blog Reconsidering Alexander H. Stephens Limited by a popular and academic culture at the beginning of the 21st century that…H. Lee Cheek, Jr.May 2, 2014
Blog Southern Night Life Although I’m not a mountain man, and I would never dare call myself smart enough…Tom DanielMay 1, 2014
Blog The Art of Southern Manliness What attributes make a man? More importantly, what made a Southern man? Two famous Southern…Brion McClanahanApril 30, 2014
Blog Moonshiners Stewart, Bruce E. Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia. Lexington: The…Samuel C. SmithApril 30, 2014
Blog Muscle Shoals Has Got The Swampers Have you ever wondered about that cryptic third verse of “Sweet Home Alabama?” The music…Tom DanielApril 29, 2014
Blog James Monroe and the Principles of ’76 James Monroe was born today (April 28) in 1757. He is one of the more…Brion McClanahanApril 28, 2014
Blog Reconstruction…of a Football Team? In my article from last week entitled “1865 and Modern Relevance” I asserted that the…Carl JonesApril 28, 2014
Blog Southern Honour and Southern History In present day academia, one is guaranteed a celebrated career by inventing a new way…Clyde WilsonApril 28, 2014
Blog Birds of America The antebellum American South did not have any artists of note. This misconception has been…Brion McClanahanApril 26, 2014
Blog Spring on the Farm It feels good to be outside alongside Mother Nature as she greens, casually, lovingly transforming…Chris JacksonApril 25, 2014
Blog GRITS Grits can simultaneously be both an item of pride and an item of derision. On…Tom DanielApril 24, 2014
Blog The Accommodating Mind of Wilbur Cash A phenomenon that has always intrigued me is how certain books achieved importance not because…Gail JarvisApril 24, 2014
Blog An Ethnic Food Group? In the mid-90’s, my wife and I lived and worked for several years in Ames,…Tom DanielApril 22, 2014
Blog When Doing Nothing is the Right Thing to Do In the present judgment of history—or at least those who are counted worthy to opine…Valerie ProtopapasApril 22, 2014
Blog Déjà Vu All Over Again It had to happen. It was as inevitable as the sunrise, death, taxes, politicians’ lies,…Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2014
Blog A Review of Paul Gottfried’s War and Democracy War and Democracy by Paul Gottfried, Arktos, 2012. War and Democracy is a collection of…Jason SorensApril 21, 2014
Blog The Terrible Swift Sword In his book The Coming of the Glory (1949), author John S. Tillery relates that…Carl JonesApril 21, 2014
Blog William Gilmore Simms on the Fate of Nations William Gilmore Simms was a consummate Southern man of letters, excelling equally in poetry, fiction,…Clyde WilsonApril 17, 2014
Blog Who Wrote the Best American Ghost Story? Simms Of Course When it comes to stories that make your hair stand on end everyone’s mind understandably…Sean BusickApril 17, 2014
Blog Happy Birthday William Gilmore Simms "To write from a people is to write a people---to make them live---to endow them…Clyde WilsonApril 17, 2014
Blog Where’s The Rest of My Ice? Here’s another one of those things about our lives controlled by Yankees – ice quantity.…Tom DanielApril 17, 2014
Blog 1865 and Modern Relevance "I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign…Carl JonesApril 16, 2014
Blog Top Southern Rock Albums In light of Tom Daniel's post "Top 11 Southern Rock Bands," I thought I would…Brion McClanahanApril 16, 2014
Blog Top 11 Southern Rock Bands I decided to rank my own favorite Top Southern Rock Bands with some added personal…Tom DanielApril 15, 2014
Blog Illegal, Unconstitutional, and Unjust The historian Andrew C. McLaughlin in 1932 wrote that the British imperial system was characterized…Brion McClanahanApril 15, 2014
Blog James Iredell: Neglected Southern Federalist Born in Lewes, England (October 5, 1751), Iredell spent his childhood in Bristol. The eldest…H. Lee Cheek, Jr.April 15, 2014
Blog The Virus of Centralization In my previous post on this website I addressed the Lincoln’s 1863 revelation to Governor…Marshall DeRosaApril 14, 2014
Blog War is a Racket “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of…Carl JonesApril 14, 2014
Blog Jefferson Davis and the Kenner Mission A few months back, I had a student ask me about Don Livingston's characterization of…Brion McClanahanApril 14, 2014
Blog Lincoln’s War for Cotton Early in the winter of 1863 Francis Pierpont, the Governor of the Restored Government of…Marshall DeRosaApril 12, 2014
Blog Welcome to Alabama Just a few days ago I read a post on this blog which discussed the…Carl JonesApril 12, 2014
Blog Southern Rock Lately, I've been doing a lot of thinking about Southern Rock, which is something very…Tom DanielApril 11, 2014
Blog Daniel Boone Was A Man Daniel Boone by John James Audubon "Daniel Boone was a man, yes a big man."…Brion McClanahanApril 11, 2014
Blog BBQ and the Hillbilly Homeboy February 2014 saw the passing of Maurice Bessinger and Tim Wilson, two Southerners who represented…Brion McClanahanApril 10, 2014
Blog Pronouncing Talladega My commute to work was a little bit spirited the other day. First of all,…Tom DanielApril 10, 2014
Blog Sunnyside and Sleepy Hollow April 3 was Washington Irving's birthday. While not a Southerner, Irving would have supported the…Brion McClanahanApril 9, 2014
Blog Don’t Hold Your Breath Boston Residents Protesting Busing in 1974. Jonathan Kozol seems to be one of those innumerable…Clyde WilsonApril 9, 2014
Blog Hooray for the Confederate Flag The Rev. Al Sharpton is a darling of the national news media, primarily because he…Charley ReeseApril 9, 2014
Blog Local Color Every Southern town has a local historian, a life-long resident who loves the tales and…Brion McClanahanApril 8, 2014
Blog Jackson and Ewell General Richard S. Ewell had a reputation for being a heavy drinker, foul mouthed, and…Carl JonesApril 8, 2014
Blog American Idol We Southerners know a little bit about music. “American Idol,” for those who haven’t watched,…Tom DanielApril 8, 2014
Blog Constitutional Deists According to Deist belief, God does not get involved in the affairs of mankind. He…Jonathan WhiteApril 8, 2014
Blog Sweet Home Alabama Forty years ago today, Lynyrd Skynyrd released their second album titled Second Helping. The effort…Brion McClanahanApril 7, 2014
Blog Winter Rest The consummation of farming year number six arrived abruptly, almost automatic like the next breath.…Chris JacksonApril 6, 2014
Blog Getting Right with Mr. Hamilton? “…the borrower is servant to him that lendeth” (Proverbs 22:7) “There is an elegant memorial…John DevannyApril 6, 2014
Blog Watch What You’re Doing “Watch what you’re doing – you never know who’s watching you.” I can still hear…Tom DanielApril 4, 2014
Blog My Court House and Their “Judicial Center” When I first moved here, more than forty years ago, the county was mostly rural,…Clyde WilsonApril 3, 2014
Blog Coming Home Many black Southerners headed North in the early twentieth century in search of a better…Brion McClanahanApril 3, 2014
Blog Sam Houston and Texas Independence The triangular racial duel, fought for so long a time for the mastery of North…Andrew Nelson LytleJanuary 1, 1970
Blog Slavery & Abortion – A False Analogy Frequently the pro-life leadership draws a parallel…Andrew Nelson LytleJanuary 1, 1970
Blog Asian Confederates? Over the last several years the American public has been conditioned, like Pavlov’s dog, to…Wayne PeaseJanuary 1, 1970
Blog Dixieland Despite Dixieland Despite. Lorn, the city burns Aphelion, the world turns Cracked lips whisper, yearn Embers…Neil KumarJanuary 1, 1970
Blog Four Puzzles Washington, where I have been living for the past six months, is an intriguing city…Thomas LandessJanuary 1, 1970
Blog Who Controls Public Schools? In America education has taken on many of the characteristics of a religion: the state…Warren LeamonJanuary 1, 1970
Blog Jefferson Davis and the War of Conflicting Visions PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS, leader of a second, alternative American Republic founded in this land, died…Otto ScottJanuary 1, 1970
Blog Another Hack Wants to Rewrite History Tom Steyer has been one of the largest left-wing donors in recent memory. From 2014-2016…Michael MartinJanuary 1, 1970
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XIV A series by Clyde Wilson Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar, Continued.Andrew Nelson LytleJanuary 1, 1970
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