Clyde Wilson Library Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXXI Moving from arrogance to masochism, Europeans have endeavoured to chase away their old feelings of…Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Calhoun’s Carolina John C. Culhoon. Culhoon is the right pronunciation by the way. John C. Culhoon was…Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Why The War Was Not About Slavery Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about”…Clyde WilsonMarch 9, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Dilorenzo and His Critics Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln has provoked the utterly predictable torrent of abuse from…Clyde WilsonFebruary 17, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library The Way We Are Now I promised to keep you updated on our government’s radio ads. In the latest, the…Clyde WilsonFebruary 3, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library It’s True What They Say About Dixie Throughout most of American history region has been a better predictor of political position than…Clyde WilsonJanuary 27, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Robert E. Lee and the American Union "And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice….."…Clyde WilsonJanuary 20, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Black Confederates? A review of Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan,…Clyde WilsonJanuary 6, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Introduction to James Pettigrew’s Notes on Spain Introduction This is James Johnston Pettigrew’s only book, privately printed in Charleston in the first…Clyde WilsonDecember 30, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Jeffersonian Democrat Rediscovered A Review of A Plague on Both Your Houses, by Robert W. Whitaker. New York:…Clyde WilsonDecember 16, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Virginia Roots of American Values "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians." — Barnard Elliott…Clyde WilsonDecember 9, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Can the Republic Be Restored: Presidency The American President began as Cincinnatus, a patriot called to the temporary service of his…Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Scholars’ Statement in Support of the Confederate Flag (2000) Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Thomas Jefferson, Southern Man of Letters, Part II Several generations after his lifetime Jefferson became best known, as he still is, of course,…Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Thomas Jefferson, Southern Man of Letters, Part I There was a popular ragtime song in the 1940s and ‘50s, derived from an old…Clyde WilsonNovember 4, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Chronicles of the South Introduction to Chronicles of the South: In Justice to So Fine a Country “The South”…Clyde WilsonOctober 21, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Prosperity Declining prosperity is now a settled fact of American life. Prosperity is not measured by…Clyde WilsonOctober 14, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Getaway: A Review of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin M. Kruse A friend who sells high-end real estate tells the story of a well-heeled Northern couple…Clyde WilsonSeptember 9, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Bailing the Capitalists: Our Southern Fathers Told Us What to Expect “. . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves.” —Thomas Jefferson “They…Clyde WilsonAugust 26, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library A Sacrifice for His People: The Imprisonment of Jefferson Davis In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XVII It has been justly stated by a British writer that the power to make a…Clyde WilsonAugust 12, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XVI Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals can believe them. --Orwell I believe you…Clyde WilsonAugust 5, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library A Jeffersonian Political Economy Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library What This Country Needs In one of Henry James’s less unreadable novels, The Bostonians, the hero is Basil Ransom,…Clyde WilsonJuly 8, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Grand Old (Stupid) Party The awful Obama is pushing terrible things on our country like socialised medicine, big spending,…Clyde WilsonJuly 1, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library America’s Red-Headed Stepchild This piece was originally published on 3 July 2014 and is reprinted in light of…Clyde WilsonJune 24, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Goodbye to Gold and Glory “The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library St. George Tucker St. George Tucker's "View of the Constitution of the United States" was the first…Clyde WilsonJune 8, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Confederate Connections A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth,…Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Antebellum Southerners in Europe I want to look at Southerners going back to Europe long after the roots were…Clyde WilsonMay 20, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The South and the West, Part 2 It seems my mission here is to bring to your attention unfamiliar and unfashionable truths…Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The South and the West, Part 1 When our ever-wise leader set up a program on the American West, he obviously had…Clyde WilsonMay 6, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Should the South Survive? This essay served as the introduction to Why the South Will Survive(University of Georgia Press,…Clyde WilsonApril 29, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Thomas Jefferson, Conservative In 1809 Thomas Jefferson yielded up the Presidency and crossed into Virginia. In the 17…Clyde WilsonApril 15, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library What to Say About Dixie? What to say in brief compass about the South?—a subject that is worthy of the…Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library A Southern Tradition: Restraining Bad Government In talking about the Southern political tradition, it is most appropriate to point to the…Clyde WilsonApril 1, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Hanging with the Snarks: An Academic Memoir There seemed to be little interest among audience members in whether the ideas I had…Clyde WilsonMarch 25, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library “A Senator of Rome when Rome Survived.” This selection was originally printed in Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson, Forgotten Conservatives in American…Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Scratching Fleas: American Historians and Their History There is no group I would rather receive recognition from than the John Randolph Club.…Clyde WilsonMarch 11, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Treasury of Counterfeit Virtue “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!”…Clyde WilsonMarch 4, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Sherman’s March The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The War Lover The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized…Clyde WilsonFebruary 11, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library M. E. Bradford, The Agrarian Aquinas I have called M.E. Bradford the Agrarian Aquinas. He did not write a Summa, but…Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Origins of the Educational Nightmare John Chodes, Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-Education of the Old South. New…Clyde WilsonJanuary 29, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Confederate Flag Day I am honoured to be back in my native State (North Carolina) where the weak…Clyde WilsonJanuary 19, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Cincinnatus, Call the Office! “. . . a republican government, which many great writers assert to be incapable of…Clyde WilsonDecember 31, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Nathaniel Macon and North Carolina Independence Although I have been in exile many years, I am a Tar Heel born and…Clyde WilsonDecember 17, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library “Southwestern Humour Writers” and the Origins of American Literature If we want to understand the origins and nature of Southern culture we must consider…Clyde WilsonDecember 11, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Literature in the Old South In an ideal world the separate studies of history and literature would enlighten one another.…Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library The Republican Charade: Lincoln and His Party "To parties of special interests, all political questions appear exclusively as problems of political tactics."…Clyde WilsonNovember 19, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Nolan’s Myth of the “Lost Cause” "Your enemy is not a criminal just because he is your enemy." —Saying credited to…Clyde WilsonNovember 17, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Tiger’s Meat: William Gilmore Simms and the History of the Revolution In the early days of the United States, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton remarked: "The safety…Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Reconstruction: Violence and Dislocation The final part in this installment is a lecture entitled, "Reconstruction in the Experience of…Clyde WilsonOctober 30, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Small Is Beautiful When I first heard of the topic "Small is Beautiful," I thought of the wonderful…Clyde WilsonOctober 2, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Please Tread On Me “Sic Semper Tyrannis.” — from the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia “I want…Clyde WilsonOctober 1, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library The Lincoln War Crimes Trial: A History Lesson This essay originally appeared in Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In the…Clyde WilsonSeptember 17, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Reconstruction as a Problem in Statesmanship How do you achieve peace and normal life after a civil war? Of course the…Clyde WilsonSeptember 8, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Reconstruction Reconstruction. There is no part of American history in which what is taught these days…Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Steady Habits and Chivalry The burden of our endeavour in this conference is to examine the great morality play…Clyde WilsonAugust 25, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Shakespeare Spoke Southern One of the cultural markers that has identified that which we call Southern from the…Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library What is a Southerner? Expert testimony in several federal court cases: Scholars in every field in the humanities and…Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Lies My Teacher Told Me: The True History of the War for Southern Independence We Sons of Confederate Veterans are charged with preserving the good name of the Confederate…Clyde WilsonJuly 22, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Those People Part 2 The flag which he had then so proudly hailed, I saw waving at the same…Clyde WilsonJuly 15, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library The Other Side of Union The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed…Clyde WilsonJuly 9, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Those People Part 1 The North is full of tangled things . . . . —G.K. Chesterton A meddling…Clyde WilsonJuly 9, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library The Southern Political Tradition: Society Before Government The history of the South is yet to be written. He who writes it need…Clyde WilsonJuly 3, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library John Taylor’s Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, Part 2 We now approach the heart of Taylor's Inquiry: recent times had created a new type…Clyde WilsonJune 26, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library John C. Calhoun and Slavery as a “Positive Good:” What He Said The “positive good” speech of February 6, 1837, is vintage Calhoun, an exercise of his…Clyde WilsonJune 26, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library John C. Calhoun and Slavery as a “Positive Good:” What Calhoun Did Not Say In what became the United States, servitude of people of the black African race existed…Clyde WilsonJune 25, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library John Taylor’s Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, Part 1 John Taylor (1753–1824) of Caroline County, Virginia, is the most important, profound, prophetic and neglected…Clyde WilsonJune 19, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Southern Culture: From Jamestown to Walker Percy "Nations are the wealth of mankind, its generalized personalities; the least among them has its…Clyde WilsonJune 18, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Can the South Survive? (I’ll Take My Stand 75th anniversary conference, Franklin, Tennessee) The Twelve Southerners have been justly…Clyde WilsonJune 11, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Nullification Reconsidered With the destructive evil of centralized power becoming every day more evident and 10th Amendment…Clyde WilsonJune 2, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Inventing a New Nation at Gettysburg Few actors in history have been hallowed in as many points of the political compass…Clyde WilsonMay 23, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Rethinking the War for Southern Independence (13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) We human beings are…Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Three Cheers for the President (Jimmy Buchanan)! The historians have put out another one of those ratings of Presidents – the great,…Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Devolution Equipped with an abundant knowledge of history, Michael Tuggle has cast a discerning eye on…Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
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