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Review Posts On the Brink of War A review of Shearer Davis Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the…Jonathan WhiteJanuary 30, 2018
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Review Posts A Useful (and Pro-Southern) Book for Today’s College or University Student A Review of The Elements of Academic Success by Gene Kizer, Jr. Charleston: Charleston Athenaeum…Michael PottsJanuary 16, 2018
Review Posts Government by Judiciary A review of Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment by Raoul Berger…Zachary GarrisJanuary 9, 2018
Review Posts Foundering Inventions A review of Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution by Harry Jafffa, (Regnery,…William J. WatkinsDecember 19, 2017
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Review Posts Gettysburg Rebels A review of Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home To Fight As Confederate…Bill PotterDecember 5, 2017
Review Posts Pickett’s Charge — The Last Attack at Gettysburg A review of Pickett’s Charge – The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess (UNC Press,…John C. WhatleyNovember 28, 2017
Review Posts James Madison: Son of Virginia A Review James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation by…Joe WolvertonNovember 14, 2017
Review Posts Southern Tales of Glory and Woe A review of A New England Romance: And Other Southern Stories by Randall Ivey (Shotwell…Patricia WoodsNovember 7, 2017
Review Posts Lincoln vs. Davis A review of Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (Lawrence, KS: University…John DevannyOctober 31, 2017
Review Posts Shredding the Constitution to Save the Union A review of Liberty & Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism by Timothy…Kevin R.C. GutzmanOctober 24, 2017
Review Posts “A Real Personage-And Not an Odd Name Merely…” A Review of States Rights Gist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War, by…Barry KayOctober 17, 2017
Review Posts A Legion of Devils A review of Karen Stokes, A Legion of Devils: Sherman in South Carolina (Shotwell Press, 2017).…Al BensonOctober 10, 2017
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Review Posts Southern Reconstruction A review of Southern Reconstruction by Philip Leigh (Westholme, 2017). Confronting the establishment narrative about…Brion McClanahanSeptember 26, 2017
Review Posts How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America A review of How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan, Regnery History, 2017.…Clyde WilsonSeptember 19, 2017
Review Posts That Old Black Magic A review of Fred Chappell, Familiars, LSU Press, 2014. The cat, the felis silverstrus catus,…Randall IveySeptember 12, 2017
Review Posts The Brave Samaritan A Review of The Angel of Marye’s Heights, by Les Carroll, Columbia, SC: Palmetto…Barry KaySeptember 5, 2017
Review Posts Reconsidering Luther Martin A review of Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet, The Life of Luther Martin, by Bill Kauffman,…Vito MussomeliAugust 29, 2017
Review Posts Nullification A review of Nullification: Reclaiming the Consent of the Governed by Clyde Wilson, Shotwell Press,…Christopher McDonaldAugust 22, 2017
Review Posts A Series of “What Ifs” Review of Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford.…Jason KorbelAugust 15, 2017
Review Posts William Lowndes Yancey A review of William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. by Eric…Jonathan WhiteAugust 8, 2017
Review Posts The Yankee Problem in American History A review of Clyde Wilson, The Yankee Problem: An American Dilemma (Shotwell Press, 2016). The…Charles SteinerAugust 1, 2017
Review Posts Go Figure: Progressive Academics Misinterpret Southern Identity A Review of The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the…Michael PottsJuly 25, 2017
Review Posts Preserving the Good A Review of Catharine Savage Brosman, Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness, McFarland…Randall IveyJuly 18, 2017
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Review Posts John Crowe Ransom’s Last Stand “The modern man has lost his sense of vocation.” “A Statement of Principles,” I’ll Take…Alan CornettJuly 4, 2017
Review Posts A Breach in the Wall A Review of: Look Homeward by David Herbert Donald, Little, Brown, 1987. When David Herbert…Loxley NicholsJune 27, 2017
Review Posts Understanding Andrew Lytle A Review of The Southern Vision of Andrew Lytle, by Mark Lucas, Louisiana State University…Benjamin AlexanderJune 20, 2017
Review Posts Poor but Proud A review of J. Wayne Flynt, Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites. Bloomington and…Michael JordanJune 13, 2017
Review Posts Music from the Lake A review of Music from the Lake and Other Essays by Catharine Savage Brosman (Chronicles…Clyde WilsonJune 7, 2017
Review Posts Hank Williams and the Elusive Redneck A review of George William Koon, Hank Williams: A Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press, 1983. Like it…Warren LeamonMay 30, 2017
Review Posts A Better Guide Than Reason A Review of M.E. Bradford, A Better Guide Than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution.…Clyde WilsonMay 17, 2017
Review Posts Bledsoe on St. Elmo Editor's note: This was originally published in Bledsoe's Southern Review in 1867 and is presented…Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 12, 2017
Review Posts Understanding Faulkner A Review of: On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner. By Cleanth…Mark Royden WinchellMay 3, 2017
Review Posts The Imperial Penman A Review of The Imperial Presidency, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,…Clyde WilsonApril 26, 2017
Review Posts Reflections of a Ghost Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the, symposium I'll Take My Stand, only three are…Andrew Nelson LytleApril 20, 2017
Review Posts Tolerating the South’s Past The Age of Enlightenment represented the Middle Ages as a Gothic night—an interlude of ignorance…Francis Butler SimkinsApril 11, 2017
Review Posts A Question of Sovereignty Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
Review Posts Maryland’s Confederate Sisterhood “If you, who represent the stronger portion, cannot agree to settle on the broad principle…J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2017
Review Posts The Shining Spirits Why the South Will Survive, by Fifteen Southerners. Edited by Clyde N. Wilson. Athens: The…Jeffrey St. JohnMarch 21, 2017
Review Posts A Deep Devotion to the Constitution According to the modern historical establishment, John C. Calhoun is the ultimate American villain. These…Brion McClanahanMarch 14, 2017
Review Posts God, Gallup, and the Episcopalians The rejection of the old Prayer Book was something like the demolition of a historic…Cleanth BrooksMarch 7, 2017
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Review Posts The American President: From Cincinnatus to Caesar The great body of the nation has no real interest in party. — James Fenimore…Clyde WilsonFebruary 23, 2017
Review Posts In Search of the Real Abe Lincoln No one interested in American history can escape Abraham Lincoln. Over the years the outpouring…Ludwell H. JohnsonFebruary 13, 2017
Review Posts Listening in Autumn: “Thin Time” in North Louisiana Two Poems by Robert Peters and David Middleton Who Will Hear? From distant ridge to…Abbeville InstituteFebruary 7, 2017
Review Posts The Small Nation Manifesto A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it…Thomas NaylorFebruary 1, 2017
Review Posts Octavia Walton Le Vert Fredrika Bremer calls the subject of this sketch her "sweet Rose of Florida." She certainly…Julia Deane FreemanJanuary 27, 2017
Review Posts Forgotten Heroines of the Confederacy Millions know Scarlett O'Hara's fictional story. Yet few among even the staunchest Southerners know the…Anne FunderburgJanuary 24, 2017
Review Posts Stonewall: By Name and Nature Stonewall lay dying of his wounds at Chancellorsville — "the most successful movement of my…Holmes AlexanderJanuary 17, 2017
Review Posts Old Western Man: C.S. Lewis and the Old South I write not as an expert to tell you of my thought but to explain…Sheldon VanaukenJanuary 10, 2017
Review Posts J. Evetts Haley and the Mind of the South American historians often write of a contrast between the South, a closed reactionary society, and…Guy Story BrownJanuary 3, 2017
Review Posts The Conversation Club of Charleston This essay was presented at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When I was young…Karen StokesDecember 21, 2016
Review Posts Kaitlin of Christmas The true story of a girl’s human love embracing the Christ-calling in each of us…Vito MussomeliDecember 19, 2016
Review Posts Death of Kin “Family’s getting scarce,” Cousin Jeanette says As Uncle Wallace, her daddy, lies In hospital bed…Randall IveyDecember 13, 2016
Review Posts A Miscarriage of Justice "Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” wrote Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway in 1775.…Ryan WaltersDecember 5, 2016
Review Posts Up at the Forks of the Creek: In Search of American Populism Editor's note: With the rise of "populism" around the world, we should revisit the history…Clyde WilsonNovember 16, 2016
Review Posts The Legacy of Francis Butler Simkins A biographer defined Francis Butler Simkins as "one of the most interesting intellectual forces of…Grady McWhineyNovember 8, 2016
Review Posts A Plinth of Night Every night he watched them, this strange trio, the two men and the woman (that…Randall IveyOctober 31, 2016
Review Posts Monument Avenue: A Debate O let his stone frown roll Applaud the silvery horse’s scuttle Forget where granite hooves…Mark MantelOctober 25, 2016
Review Posts Jeffersonian Conservatism What is true conservatism? That question, more than anything else, is the argument raging in…Ryan WaltersOctober 18, 2016
Review Posts A Farewell Performance of “The Twins” Omitting minor points of difference, it may be said that “the difference between the old…Thomas E. WatsonOctober 11, 2016
Review Posts Two Aristocracies Editor's note: This piece was originally printed as an unsigned piece in DeBow's Review in…Abbeville InstituteOctober 5, 2016
Review Posts The Stupid Empire Reprinted from brionmcclanahan.com As the first leg of the American invasion force rolled through Iraq…Brion McClanahanSeptember 27, 2016
Review Posts John C. Calhoun: Anti-Imperialist The mission of the Abbeville Institute, to redeem what is worthwhile in the Southern tradition,…Clyde WilsonSeptember 22, 2016
Review Posts James Jackson of Georgia: Unknown Patriot Founder Published in honor of James Jackson's birthday, September 21. Delivered in Savannah, in February, 1806,…Thomas U.P. CharltonSeptember 21, 2016
Review Posts The Last of the Romans This essay was originally published at The Imaginative Conservative and is published here in honor…Bradley J. BirzerSeptember 19, 2016
Review Posts Rethinking the War for the 21st Century (13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
Review Posts Not Quite a Poem It is not quite a poem though it would be had it a master worthy…Robert M. PetersSeptember 13, 2016
Review Posts Choosing Southernness: Southern With an Italian Accent Late in August 1965, a young boy not yet eight-years-old stood with his father on…Mark G. MalvasiSeptember 6, 2016
Review Posts The South as an Independent Nation This article was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1997. "Being a Southerner is…William CawthonSeptember 1, 2016
Review Posts Who Won the Webster-Hayne Debate of 1830? The dominant historical opinion of the famous debate between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert…H. A. Scott TraskAugust 30, 2016
Review Posts Reflections of a Ghost: An Agrarian View After Fifty Years Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the symposium I'll Take My Stand, only three are…Andrew Nelson LytleAugust 23, 2016
Review Posts Truth in the Pit of Political Correctness Last week’s vote (June 2016) to repudiate the Battle Flag by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)…Ben ThompsonAugust 16, 2016
Review Posts A Southern Political Economy vs. American State Capitalism General Lee was a soldier and leader of men, not a politician. Although several of…Clyde WilsonAugust 10, 2016
Review Posts Debunking the Debunking: Gary Ross and His “Myths of the Civil War.” In a recent Huffington Post video, director-turned-historian Gary Ross, of the film “Free State of…Ryan WaltersAugust 8, 2016
Review Posts American Culture: Massachusetts or Virginia Delivered at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. A Frenchman has observed that the qualities…Clyde WilsonAugust 3, 2016
Review Posts The Tariff and Other Tales from Alabama My friends, there is one issue before you, and to all sensible men but one…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 1, 2016
Review Posts Are Southerners Different? This essay appeared in the 1984 winter issue of Southern Partisan magazine. In the best…John William CorringtonJuly 26, 2016
Review Posts The Free State of Jones: History or Hollywood? Hollywood has struck again with another “Civil War” movie that, unsurprisingly as it may seem,…Ryan WaltersJuly 12, 2016
Review Posts Transcendentalism: The New England Heresy In 1855 Putnam's Monthly carried an article by the Reverend Thomas Wentworth Higginson describing an…Otto ScottJuly 5, 2016
Review Posts Instant Grits and Plastic Wrapped Crackers: Southern Culture and Regional Development This essay was originally published in Louis D. Rubin, Jr., The American South: Portrait of a…John Shelton ReedJune 30, 2016
Review Posts Is Pluralism Enough? Fr John Strickland, reflecting on the Renaissance of Western Europe, wrote, . . . For…Walt GarlingtonJune 21, 2016
Review Posts My Son, Get Wisdom, Get Understanding Address delivered to the graduates of the South Carolina College, December 1821. Gentlemen, YOU are…Thomas CooperJune 17, 2016
Review Posts The Theology of Secession At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the…M.E. BradfordJune 14, 2016
Review Posts Jefferson Davis: A Judicial Estimate This piece is published in honor of Davis's birthday, June 3. With unaffected distrust of…Charles Betts GallowayJune 3, 2016
Review Posts A Character Sketch: John Randolph of Roanoke Editor's Note: This piece is, at times, harsh in its assessment of Randolph's character and…Frederick William ThomasJune 2, 2016
Review Posts The Battle in Virginia Over the Constitution This essay is reprinted in honor of Patrick Henry's birthday, May 29, from Moses Coit…Moses Coit TylerMay 30, 2016
Review Posts Our American Cultural Revolution Delivered April 16, 2016 as The 2016 Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture at the Mises…Paul GottfriedMay 27, 2016
Review Posts Agrarianism and Cultural Renewal This essay was originally printed at The Imaginative Conservative. Among the contributions to I’ll Take…H. Lee Cheek, Jr.May 24, 2016
Review Posts Southern Voices Southern Voices: Poems by William H. Holcombe, M. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.…Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 17, 2016
Review Posts Remember Us Delivered May 6, 2016 in Columbia, SC. Archibald MacLeish was a 20th century poet, author…Herbert ChambersMay 10, 2016
Review Posts Women of the Southern Confederacy Editor's Note: A Mother's Day special dedicated to all Southern wives and mothers, this piece…Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 8, 2016
Review Posts Is “White Supremacy” an Exclusively “Southern” Ideology? “We abhor the doctrine of the "Types of Mankind;" first, because it is at war…Brion McClanahanMay 3, 2016
Review Posts The Cause of Jackson is the Cause of Us All Old Hickory has been chopped off the front of the twenty-dollar bill. Andrew Jackson will…James Rutledge RoeschApril 26, 2016
Review Posts The Confederacy’s Rule of Law As Southern States seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America,…Marshall DeRosaApril 19, 2016
Review Posts The Ireland of the Union Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847) was regarded as one of the finest American poets of his…Richard Henry WildeApril 12, 2016
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