Moving from arrogance to masochism, Europeans have endeavoured to chase away their old feelings of…
Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2016
Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about”…
Clyde WilsonMarch 9, 2016
Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln has provoked the utterly predictable torrent of abuse from…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 17, 2016
I promised to keep you updated on our government’s radio ads. In the latest, the…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 3, 2016
Throughout most of American history region has been a better predictor of political position than…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 27, 2016
"And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice….."…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 20, 2016
A review of Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan,…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 6, 2016
Introduction This is James Johnston Pettigrew’s only book, privately printed in Charleston in the first…
Clyde WilsonDecember 30, 2015
A Review of A Plague on Both Your Houses, by Robert W. Whitaker. New York:…
Clyde WilsonDecember 16, 2015
"There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians." — Barnard Elliott…
Clyde WilsonDecember 9, 2015
The American President began as Cincinnatus, a patriot called to the temporary service of his…
Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2015
Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
Several generations after his lifetime Jefferson became best known, as he still is, of course,…
Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2015
There was a popular ragtime song in the 1940s and ‘50s, derived from an old…
Clyde WilsonNovember 4, 2015
Introduction to Chronicles of the South: In Justice to So Fine a Country “The South”…
Clyde WilsonOctober 21, 2015
Declining prosperity is now a settled fact of American life. Prosperity is not measured by…
Clyde WilsonOctober 14, 2015
A friend who sells high-end real estate tells the story of a well-heeled Northern couple…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 9, 2015
“. . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves.” —Thomas Jefferson “They…
Clyde WilsonAugust 26, 2015
In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…
Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals can believe them. --Orwell I believe you…
Clyde WilsonAugust 5, 2015
Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2015
In one of Henry James’s less unreadable novels, The Bostonians, the hero is Basil Ransom,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 8, 2015
The awful Obama is pushing terrible things on our country like socialised medicine, big spending,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 1, 2015
This piece was originally published on 3 July 2014 and is reprinted in light of…
Clyde WilsonJune 24, 2015
“The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
St. George Tucker's "View of the Constitution of the United States" was the first…
Clyde WilsonJune 8, 2015
A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth,…
Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2015
I want to look at Southerners going back to Europe long after the roots were…
Clyde WilsonMay 20, 2015
It seems my mission here is to bring to your attention unfamiliar and unfashionable truths…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2015
When our ever-wise leader set up a program on the American West, he obviously had…
Clyde WilsonMay 6, 2015
This essay served as the introduction to Why the South Will Survive(University of Georgia Press,…
Clyde WilsonApril 29, 2015
In 1809 Thomas Jefferson yielded up the Presidency and crossed into Virginia. In the 17…
Clyde WilsonApril 15, 2015
What to say in brief compass about the South?—a subject that is worthy of the…
Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2015
In talking about the Southern political tradition, it is most appropriate to point to the…
Clyde WilsonApril 1, 2015
There seemed to be little interest among audience members in whether the ideas I had…
Clyde WilsonMarch 25, 2015
This selection was originally printed in Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson, Forgotten Conservatives in American…
Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2015
There is no group I would rather receive recognition from than the John Randolph Club.…
Clyde WilsonMarch 11, 2015
The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2015
The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 11, 2015
I have called M.E. Bradford the Agrarian Aquinas. He did not write a Summa, but…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2015
John Chodes, Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-Education of the Old South. New…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 29, 2015
I am honoured to be back in my native State (North Carolina) where the weak…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 19, 2015
“. . . a republican government, which many great writers assert to be incapable of…
Clyde WilsonDecember 31, 2014
If we want to understand the origins and nature of Southern culture we must consider…
Clyde WilsonDecember 11, 2014
In an ideal world the separate studies of history and literature would enlighten one another.…
Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2014
"To parties of special interests, all political questions appear exclusively as problems of political tactics."…
Clyde WilsonNovember 19, 2014
"Your enemy is not a criminal just because he is your enemy." —Saying credited to…
Clyde WilsonNovember 17, 2014
In the early days of the United States, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton remarked: "The safety…
Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2014
The final part in this installment is a lecture entitled, "Reconstruction in the Experience of…
Clyde WilsonOctober 30, 2014
When I first heard of the topic "Small is Beautiful," I thought of the wonderful…
Clyde WilsonOctober 2, 2014
“Sic Semper Tyrannis.” — from the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia “I want…
Clyde WilsonOctober 1, 2014
This essay originally appeared in Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 17, 2014
How do you achieve peace and normal life after a civil war? Of course the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 8, 2014
Reconstruction. There is no part of American history in which what is taught these days…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2014
The burden of our endeavour in this conference is to examine the great morality play…
Clyde WilsonAugust 25, 2014
One of the cultural markers that has identified that which we call Southern from the…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2014
Expert testimony in several federal court cases: Scholars in every field in the humanities and…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2014
We Sons of Confederate Veterans are charged with preserving the good name of the Confederate…
Clyde WilsonJuly 22, 2014
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed…
Clyde WilsonJuly 9, 2014
We now approach the heart of Taylor's Inquiry: recent times had created a new type…
Clyde WilsonJune 26, 2014
The “positive good” speech of February 6, 1837, is vintage Calhoun, an exercise of his…
Clyde WilsonJune 26, 2014
In what became the United States, servitude of people of the black African race existed…
Clyde WilsonJune 25, 2014
John Taylor (1753–1824) of Caroline County, Virginia, is the most important, profound, prophetic and neglected…
Clyde WilsonJune 19, 2014
"Nations are the wealth of mankind, its generalized personalities; the least among them has its…
Clyde WilsonJune 18, 2014
(I’ll Take My Stand 75th anniversary conference, Franklin, Tennessee) The Twelve Southerners have been justly…
Clyde WilsonJune 11, 2014
With the destructive evil of centralized power becoming every day more evident and 10th Amendment…
Clyde WilsonJune 2, 2014
Few actors in history have been hallowed in as many points of the political compass…
Clyde WilsonMay 23, 2014
(13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) We human beings are…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
The historians have put out another one of those ratings of Presidents – the great,…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
Equipped with an abundant knowledge of history, Michael Tuggle has cast a discerning eye on…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
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