A review of Irreconcilable Founders: Spencer Roane, John Marshall, and the Nature of America's Constitutional…
Aaron N. ColemanSeptember 30, 2021
A review of Our Comfort in Dying (Sola Fide Publications, 2021), R. L. Dabney and…
Forrest L. MarionAugust 24, 2021
A review of Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 (Abbeville Institute Press,…
Dave BennerAugust 10, 2021
A review of Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (University Press of Kansas,…
Terry HulseyJune 29, 2021
A review of Secession, State & Liberty, (Transaction, 1998) edited with an introduction by David…
Terry HulseyMay 18, 2021
A Review of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery…
Joshua DoggrellApril 13, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of…
Gene Kizer, Jr.April 6, 2021
A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. A…
Terry HulseyMarch 23, 2021
A review of The Greatest of All Leathernecks (LSU Press, 2019) by Joseph Simon. Anyone…
Rev. Benjamin GlaserMarch 16, 2021
A review of Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books, 2018) by…
Duncan KillenJanuary 20, 2021
A review of Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (LSU…
Jason StewartJanuary 12, 2021
A review of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values…
Zachary GarrisDecember 8, 2020
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Wes FranklinDecember 1, 2020
A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993)…
Neil KumarNovember 17, 2020
A review of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020)…
Donald LivingstonOctober 20, 2020
A Review of Chained Tree, Chained Owls, Poems (Green Altar Books, 2020) by Catharine Savage…
Jason SorensOctober 6, 2020
A review of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (University of California Press, 2014) by Nadine…
Joshua DoggrellSeptember 8, 2020
A review of Cleburne: A Graphic Novel (Rampart Press, 2008) by Justin S. Murphy and…
Clyde WilsonAugust 25, 2020
A review of Southern Scribblings (Red Mill Publishing, 2020) by Brion McClanahan In an age…
James Ronald KennedyAugust 4, 2020
A Review of The Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment (Routledge,…
Neil KumarJuly 8, 2020
A review of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties (Simon and Schuster, 2020)…
James Ronald KennedyMay 19, 2020
A review of Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and…
Henry T. Edmonson IIIMay 5, 2020
A Review of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford University…
Jason MorganApril 28, 2020
A review of In Defense of Andrew Jackson (Regnery History, 2018) by Bradley J. Birzer…
James Rutledge RoeschApril 21, 2020
A review of Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian (Regnery History, 2012) by…
Joe WolvertonApril 14, 2020
A review of The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee (Forge Books, 2006) by Thomas…
Philip LeighApril 7, 2020
A review of Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea (University of Notre Dame…
Richard M. GambleMarch 31, 2020
A review of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farrar, Straus…
David GordonMarch 24, 2020
A review of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the…
Garrett AgajanianMarch 17, 2020
A review of The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil…
John C. WhatleyMarch 10, 2020
A review of Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (ISI Books, 1999) edited…
Brion McClanahanMarch 3, 2020
A Review of Old Times There Should Not Be Forgotten (Shotwell Publishing, 2020) by Leslie…
Michael PottsFebruary 25, 2020
A review of How to Study History When Seeking Truthfulness and Understanding: Lessons Learned from Outside…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2020
A review of Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered (ISI Books, 2006)…
Kirkpatrick SaleFebruary 11, 2020
A review of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Encounter Books,…
Jason MorganFebruary 4, 2020
A review of It Wasn't About Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJanuary 28, 2020
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Brion McClanahanJanuary 21, 2020
A review of An Aesthetic Education and Other Stories (Green Altar Books, 2019) by Catharine…
Randall IveyJanuary 14, 2020
A review of Lee vs. McClellan, The First Campaign (Regnery Publishing, 2010) by Clayton R.…
John C. WhatleyJanuary 7, 2020
How grace this hallowed day? Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire, Send their glad…
Henry TimrodDecember 24, 2019
A review of Burden of Dependency: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought (Johns Hopkins, 1992)…
Joseph R. StrombergDecember 17, 2019
A review of Maxcy Gregg’s Sporting Journals, 1842-1858 (Green Altar Books, 2019) Suzanne Parfitt Johnson,…
John DevannyDecember 10, 2019
A review of Erasing America: Losing our Future by Destroying our Past (Regnery Publishing, 2018)…
Michael PottsDecember 3, 2019
A Review of The Idea of The American South, 1920-1941, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)…
James J. Thompson, Jr.November 19, 2019
A review of None Shall Look Back (J.S. Sanders, 1992) by Caroline Gordon Thus far…
Jane BrownNovember 12, 2019
A Review of The Everlasting Circle: Letters of the Haskell Family of Abbeville, South Carolina,…
Clyde WilsonNovember 5, 2019
A review of The Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic States (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,…
Vito MussomeliOctober 29, 2019
A review of The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate (University…
Tom RashOctober 22, 2019
A review of Wendell Berry: Port William Novels and Stories (Library of America, 2018), Jack…
Rafael AlvarezOctober 15, 2019
A review of Lincoln (Simon and Schuster, 1995) by David Herbert Donald Professor David Herbert…
Kevin R.C. GutzmanOctober 8, 2019
A review of Faith and Fury: The Rise of Catholicism During the Civil War (Ewtn…
Jerry SalyerOctober 1, 2019
A review of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American…
Robert L. PaquetteSeptember 24, 2019
A review of American Empire: A Global History (Princeton, 2018) by A.G. Hopkins From the…
Jason MorganSeptember 17, 2019
A review of To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas (Pelican, 1999) by…
David WadeSeptember 10, 2019
A review of The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994)…
Won KimSeptember 3, 2019
A review of The C.S.A. Trilogy (Independent, 2018) by Howard Ray White. A beautiful thought…
Clyde WilsonAugust 27, 2019
A review of U.S. Grant's Failed Presidency (Shotwell Publishing, 2019) by Philip Leigh There was…
Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2019
A review of Punished with Poverty: The Suffering South-Prosperity to Poverty & the Continuing Struggle…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2019
A Review of A Historical and Constitutional Defense of the South (1914) by Captain John…
Brett MoffattAugust 6, 2019
J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, 1966 and The Price of Empire, 1967 Robert…
Clyde WilsonJuly 30, 2019
Review of The Barber of Natchez (LSU, 1954, 1973) edited by Edwin Adams Davis and William…
Vito MussomeliJuly 23, 2019
A retrospective review of Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story (University of South Carolina Press,…
Robin Spencer LattimoreJuly 16, 2019
A review of Conserving America (St. Augustine Press, 2016) by Patrick J. Deneen Man has…
Jerry SalyerJuly 9, 2019
A review of How To Be a Conservative (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015), by Sir Roger Scruton.…
Nicole WilliamsJuly 2, 2019
A review of Dabney on Fire: A Theology of Parenting, Education, Feminism, and Government (2019)…
Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2019
A review of American Diplomacy under Tyler and Polk (Johns Hopkins, 1907) by Jesse S.…
St. George SioussatJune 18, 2019
A review of The First South (LSU Press, 1961) by John Richard Alden One of…
Shane AndersonJune 11, 2019
A review of Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide, (U. Press of Mississippi, 2019) by Catharine…
Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2019
A Review of American Statesman. Patrick Henry (Houghton Mifflin, 1887) by Moses Coit Tyler Of…
Albert Bushnell HartMay 28, 2019
A Review of Doniphan’s Expedition, Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico .…
Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2019
A review of George Washington: A Biography in Seven Volumes (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,…
Jeff WolvertonMay 14, 2019
A review of A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and His Achievements (Missouri, 1999)…
J.O. TateMay 6, 2019
A review of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (Oxford,…
W. Kirk WoodApril 30, 2019
A Review of Sacred Conviction: The South’s Stand for Biblical Authority (Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by…
Garrett AgajanianApril 23, 2019
A review of Writing on the Southern Front: Authentic Conservatism For Our Times (Routledge, 2017)…
Paul GottfriedApril 16, 2019
A review of Yankee Empire: Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home (Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by…
Brett MoffattApril 9, 2019
A review of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of…
Brion McClanahanApril 2, 2019
A review of John Gildart: An Heroic Poem. (H. Young & Co., 1901) by M.…
Thomas Cooper De LeonMarch 26, 2019
A review of Correspondence of John C. Calhoun, Vol II. (Washington, 1900) edited by J.…
Edward G. BourneMarch 19, 2019
A review of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America…
W. Kirk WoodMarch 12, 2019
A Review of Beyond Slavery: The Northern Romantic Nationalist Origins of America’s Civil War (Shotwell…
Michael PottsMarch 5, 2019
A review of Jefferson and the Virginians: Democracy, Constitutions, and Empire (LSU Press, 2018) by…
Kevin R.C. GutzmanFebruary 26, 2019
A review of Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty (The Independent…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 19, 2019
A Review of Historical Consciousness, or The Remembered Past (Schocken Books, 1985) by John Lukacs In…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 12, 2019
A Review of The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (Knopf Publishing Company, 1990)…
Charles GoolsbyFebruary 5, 2019
A review of Snowflake Buddies: ABC Leftism for Kids (Shotwell, 2018) by Lewis Liberman It…
Michael PottsJanuary 29, 2019
A review of A Thousand Points of Truth: The History and Humanity of Col. John…
Paul GottfriedJanuary 22, 2019
A review of Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861 (University…
John DevannyJanuary 15, 2019
A review of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999) by Allen C. Guelzo.…
Samuel C. SmithJanuary 8, 2019
A review of The Land We Love: The South and Its Heritage (Scuppernong Press, 2018)…
Paul GottfriedDecember 18, 2018
A review of Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir (University Press of Kansas, 2004) by…
Stephen M. KlugewiczDecember 11, 2018
A review of John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court (Basic Books, 2018)…
Brion McClanahanDecember 4, 2018
A review of Slavery, Secession, & Civil War: Views from the United Kingdom and Europe,…
Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 27, 2018
A review of Andrew Durnford, A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South by David O.…
Vito MussomeliNovember 20, 2018
A review of four novels by Dr. James Everett Kibler, Jr: Walking Toward Home (Pelican…
Robin Spencer LattimoreNovember 13, 2018
A review of “An Arch Rebel Like Myself;” Dan Showalter and the Civil War in…
Daniel PetersNovember 6, 2018
A review of From Founding Fathers to Fire-Eaters: The Constitutional Doctrine of States’ Rights in…
John DevannyOctober 30, 2018
A review of Lincoln: As He Really Was by Charles T. Pace (Shotwell Publishing, 2018).…
Michael PottsOctober 23, 2018
A review of Taking Root: The Nature Writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria…
Alan HarrelsonOctober 16, 2018
A review of In Defense of Andrew Jackson by Brad Birzer (Regnery History, 2018). Andrew…
Dave BennerOctober 9, 2018
A Review of Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, by Charles Leerhsen, (Simon & Schuster, 2015).…
Norman BlackOctober 2, 2018
A Review of The Election of 1860: “A Campaign Fraught with Consequences” by Michael F.…
Joe WolvertonSeptember 25, 2018
A review of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 by Saul…
James McClellanSeptember 18, 2018
A review of My Own Darling Wife: Letters from a Confederate Volunteer by Andrew P.…
John C. WhatleySeptember 11, 2018
A review of The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson by David N. Mayer (University of…
Kevin R.C. GutzmanSeptember 4, 2018
A Review of Union At All Costs: From Confederation to Consolidation by John M. Taylor…
Samuel W. MitchamAugust 28, 2018
A review Slave and Free on Virginia’s Eastern Shore by Kirk Mariner (Onancok, VA: Miona Publications, 2014).…
John DevannyAugust 21, 2018
A review of What Are People For? by Wendell Berry (North Point Press, 1990) "We…
Tom RashAugust 14, 2018
A review of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David Blight (Harvard University…
Josh PhillipsAugust 7, 2018
A review of Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North by…
H. A. Scott TraskJuly 31, 2018
A review of Maximilian and Carlota: Europe’s Last Empire in Mexico by Mary Margaret McAllen…
Terry HulseyJuly 24, 2018
A review of Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War by…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJuly 17, 2018
A review of America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, by David Goldfield…
Stephen M. KlugewiczJuly 10, 2018
A review of The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W. Craig…
John C. WhatleyJuly 3, 2018
A review of The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture & the Products…
Jeff WolvertonJune 26, 2018
When you think of America’s so-called “Civil War”, rock music may not be one of…
Matthew SilberJune 19, 2018
A review of With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era…
Brion McClanahanJune 12, 2018
Originally published at amazon.com, 30 September 2009. A Review of War Crimes Against Southern Civilians by…
Stephen HendrickJune 5, 2018
A review of Division and Reunion: America, 1848-1877, by Ludwell H. Johnson, New York: John…
Clyde WilsonMay 29, 2018
A review of The 14th Amendment and the Incorporation Doctrine by David Benner (Minneapolis: Life…
Ryan WaltersMay 22, 2018
A review of Fifty Southern Writers After 1900: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. by Joseph M.…
Mark Royden WinchellMay 8, 2018
A review of The Last Hurrah by Kyle S. Sinisi (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). General Sterling Price’s…
John C. WhatleyMay 1, 2018
A review of Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War by…
Joe WolvertonApril 24, 2018
A review of Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought. Sanford Levinson, ed. Lawrence, KS:…
John DevannyApril 17, 2018
A review of The Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy (Vintage,…
Al BensonApril 10, 2018
A review of I'll Take My Stand by Twelve Southerners (LSU, 2006). In this age…
Randall IveyApril 3, 2018
A review of Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States: The Attack on Leviathan by…
Mark Royden WinchellMarch 27, 2018
A review of Southern Horizons: The Autobiography of Thomas Dixon (IWV Publishing, 1994). The name…
Stephen P. SmithMarch 20, 2018
A review of Two Against Lincoln: Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal…
Brion McClanahanMarch 13, 2018
A review of Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution…
W. Kirk WoodMarch 6, 2018
A review of Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States (Charleston…
Al BensonFebruary 27, 2018
A review of R. E. Mitchell. Souls of Lions (Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse LLC, 2014). Very…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 20, 2018
A review-essay on A Memory of Manaus: Poems by Catharine Savage Brosman. Macon, GA: Mercer…
David MiddletonFebruary 13, 2018
A review of Remember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Inspired a…
Paul GottfriedFebruary 6, 2018
A review of Shearer Davis Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the…
Jonathan WhiteJanuary 30, 2018
A review of Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic by Paul C. Graham (Shotwell Publishing, 2017). In…
Ryan WaltersJanuary 23, 2018
A Review of The Elements of Academic Success by Gene Kizer, Jr. Charleston: Charleston Athenaeum…
Michael PottsJanuary 16, 2018
A review of Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment by Raoul Berger…
Zachary GarrisJanuary 9, 2018
A review of Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution by Harry Jafffa, (Regnery,…
William J. WatkinsDecember 19, 2017
A review of The World They Made Together, Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century…
Vito MussomeliDecember 12, 2017
A review of Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home To Fight As Confederate…
Bill PotterDecember 5, 2017
A review of Pickett’s Charge – The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess (UNC Press,…
John C. WhatleyNovember 28, 2017
A Review James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation by…
Joe WolvertonNovember 14, 2017
A review of A New England Romance: And Other Southern Stories by Randall Ivey (Shotwell…
Patricia WoodsNovember 7, 2017
A review of Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (Lawrence, KS: University…
John DevannyOctober 31, 2017
A review of Liberty & Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism by Timothy…
Kevin R.C. GutzmanOctober 24, 2017
A Review of States Rights Gist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War, by…
Barry KayOctober 17, 2017
A review of Karen Stokes, A Legion of Devils: Sherman in South Carolina (Shotwell Press, 2017).…
Al BensonOctober 10, 2017
A review of Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy by Earl J.…
Jason StewartOctober 3, 2017
A review of Southern Reconstruction by Philip Leigh (Westholme, 2017). Confronting the establishment narrative about…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 26, 2017
A review of How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan, Regnery History, 2017.…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 19, 2017
A review of Fred Chappell, Familiars, LSU Press, 2014. The cat, the felis silverstrus catus,…
Randall IveySeptember 12, 2017
A Review of The Angel of Marye’s Heights, by Les Carroll, Columbia, SC: Palmetto…
Barry KaySeptember 5, 2017
A review of Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet, The Life of Luther Martin, by Bill Kauffman,…
Vito MussomeliAugust 29, 2017
A review of Nullification: Reclaiming the Consent of the Governed by Clyde Wilson, Shotwell Press,…
Christopher McDonaldAugust 22, 2017
Review of Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford.…
Jason KorbelAugust 15, 2017
A review of William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. by Eric…
Jonathan WhiteAugust 8, 2017
A review of Clyde Wilson, The Yankee Problem: An American Dilemma (Shotwell Press, 2016). The…
Charles SteinerAugust 1, 2017
A Review of The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the…
Michael PottsJuly 25, 2017
A Review of Catharine Savage Brosman, Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness, McFarland…
Randall IveyJuly 18, 2017
A review of Bust Hell Wide Open: the Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Samuel…
James Rutledge RoeschJuly 11, 2017
“The modern man has lost his sense of vocation.” “A Statement of Principles,” I’ll Take…
Alan CornettJuly 4, 2017
A Review of: Look Homeward by David Herbert Donald, Little, Brown, 1987. When David Herbert…
Loxley NicholsJune 27, 2017
A Review of The Southern Vision of Andrew Lytle, by Mark Lucas, Louisiana State University…
Benjamin AlexanderJune 20, 2017
A review of J. Wayne Flynt, Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites. Bloomington and…
Michael JordanJune 13, 2017
A review of Music from the Lake and Other Essays by Catharine Savage Brosman (Chronicles…
Clyde WilsonJune 7, 2017
A review of George William Koon, Hank Williams: A Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press, 1983. Like it…
Warren LeamonMay 30, 2017
A Review of M.E. Bradford, A Better Guide Than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution.…
Clyde WilsonMay 17, 2017
Editor's note: This was originally published in Bledsoe's Southern Review in 1867 and is presented…
Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 12, 2017
A Review of: On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner. By Cleanth…
Mark Royden WinchellMay 3, 2017
A Review of The Imperial Presidency, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,…
Clyde WilsonApril 26, 2017
Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the, symposium I'll Take My Stand, only three are…
Andrew Nelson LytleApril 20, 2017
The Age of Enlightenment represented the Middle Ages as a Gothic night—an interlude of ignorance…
Francis Butler SimkinsApril 11, 2017
Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…
Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
“If you, who represent the stronger portion, cannot agree to settle on the broad principle…
J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2017
Why the South Will Survive, by Fifteen Southerners. Edited by Clyde N. Wilson. Athens: The…
Jeffrey St. JohnMarch 21, 2017
According to the modern historical establishment, John C. Calhoun is the ultimate American villain. These…
Brion McClanahanMarch 14, 2017
The rejection of the old Prayer Book was something like the demolition of a historic…
Cleanth BrooksMarch 7, 2017
At first glance, Nathaniel Hawthorne seems the quintessential Yankee, one not at all likely to…
Michael JordanMarch 1, 2017
The great body of the nation has no real interest in party. — James Fenimore…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 23, 2017
No one interested in American history can escape Abraham Lincoln. Over the years the outpouring…
Ludwell H. JohnsonFebruary 13, 2017
Two Poems by Robert Peters and David Middleton Who Will Hear? From distant ridge to…
Abbeville InstituteFebruary 7, 2017
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it…
Thomas NaylorFebruary 1, 2017
Fredrika Bremer calls the subject of this sketch her "sweet Rose of Florida." She certainly…
Julia Deane FreemanJanuary 27, 2017
Millions know Scarlett O'Hara's fictional story. Yet few among even the staunchest Southerners know the…
Anne FunderburgJanuary 24, 2017
Stonewall lay dying of his wounds at Chancellorsville — "the most successful movement of my…
Holmes AlexanderJanuary 17, 2017
American historians often write of a contrast between the South, a closed reactionary society, and…
Guy Story BrownJanuary 3, 2017
This essay was presented at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When I was young…
Karen StokesDecember 21, 2016
The true story of a girl’s human love embracing the Christ-calling in each of us…
Vito MussomeliDecember 19, 2016
“Family’s getting scarce,” Cousin Jeanette says As Uncle Wallace, her daddy, lies In hospital bed…
Randall IveyDecember 13, 2016
"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” wrote Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway in 1775.…
Ryan WaltersDecember 5, 2016
Editor's note: With the rise of "populism" around the world, we should revisit the history…
Clyde WilsonNovember 16, 2016
A biographer defined Francis Butler Simkins as "one of the most interesting intellectual forces of…
Grady McWhineyNovember 8, 2016
Every night he watched them, this strange trio, the two men and the woman (that…
Randall IveyOctober 31, 2016
O let his stone frown roll Applaud the silvery horse’s scuttle Forget where granite hooves…
Mark MantelOctober 25, 2016
What is true conservatism? That question, more than anything else, is the argument raging in…
Ryan WaltersOctober 18, 2016
Omitting minor points of difference, it may be said that “the difference between the old…
Thomas E. WatsonOctober 11, 2016
Editor's note: This piece was originally printed as an unsigned piece in DeBow's Review in…
Abbeville InstituteOctober 5, 2016
Reprinted from brionmcclanahan.com As the first leg of the American invasion force rolled through Iraq…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 27, 2016
The mission of the Abbeville Institute, to redeem what is worthwhile in the Southern tradition,…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 22, 2016
Published in honor of James Jackson's birthday, September 21. Delivered in Savannah, in February, 1806,…
Thomas U.P. CharltonSeptember 21, 2016
This essay was originally published at The Imaginative Conservative and is published here in honor…
Bradley J. BirzerSeptember 19, 2016
(13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
Late in August 1965, a young boy not yet eight-years-old stood with his father on…
Mark G. MalvasiSeptember 6, 2016
This article was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1997. "Being a Southerner is…
William CawthonSeptember 1, 2016
The dominant historical opinion of the famous debate between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert…
H. A. Scott TraskAugust 30, 2016
Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the symposium I'll Take My Stand, only three are…
Andrew Nelson LytleAugust 23, 2016
Last week’s vote (June 2016) to repudiate the Battle Flag by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)…
Ben ThompsonAugust 16, 2016
General Lee was a soldier and leader of men, not a politician. Although several of…
Clyde WilsonAugust 10, 2016
In a recent Huffington Post video, director-turned-historian Gary Ross, of the film “Free State of…
Ryan WaltersAugust 8, 2016
Delivered at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. A Frenchman has observed that the qualities…
Clyde WilsonAugust 3, 2016
My friends, there is one issue before you, and to all sensible men but one…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 1, 2016
This essay appeared in the 1984 winter issue of Southern Partisan magazine. In the best…
John William CorringtonJuly 26, 2016
Hollywood has struck again with another “Civil War” movie that, unsurprisingly as it may seem,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 12, 2016
In 1855 Putnam's Monthly carried an article by the Reverend Thomas Wentworth Higginson describing an…
Otto ScottJuly 5, 2016
This essay was originally published in Louis D. Rubin, Jr., The American South: Portrait of a…
John Shelton ReedJune 30, 2016
Fr John Strickland, reflecting on the Renaissance of Western Europe, wrote, . . . For…
Walt GarlingtonJune 21, 2016
Address delivered to the graduates of the South Carolina College, December 1821. Gentlemen, YOU are…
Thomas CooperJune 17, 2016
At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the…
M.E. BradfordJune 14, 2016
This piece is published in honor of Davis's birthday, June 3. With unaffected distrust of…
Charles Betts GallowayJune 3, 2016
Editor's Note: This piece is, at times, harsh in its assessment of Randolph's character and…
Frederick William ThomasJune 2, 2016
This essay is reprinted in honor of Patrick Henry's birthday, May 29, from Moses Coit…
Moses Coit TylerMay 30, 2016
Delivered April 16, 2016 as The 2016 Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture at the Mises…
Paul GottfriedMay 27, 2016
This essay was originally printed at The Imaginative Conservative. Among the contributions to I’ll Take…
H. Lee Cheek, Jr.May 24, 2016
Southern Voices: Poems by William H. Holcombe, M. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.…
Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 17, 2016
Delivered May 6, 2016 in Columbia, SC. Archibald MacLeish was a 20th century poet, author…
Herbert ChambersMay 10, 2016
Editor's Note: A Mother's Day special dedicated to all Southern wives and mothers, this piece…
Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 8, 2016
“We abhor the doctrine of the "Types of Mankind;" first, because it is at war…
Brion McClanahanMay 3, 2016
Old Hickory has been chopped off the front of the twenty-dollar bill. Andrew Jackson will…
James Rutledge RoeschApril 26, 2016
As Southern States seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America,…
Marshall DeRosaApril 19, 2016
Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847) was regarded as one of the finest American poets of his…
Richard Henry WildeApril 12, 2016
The PC police have found a new target. Not satisfied with monuments and flags, the…
Brion McClanahanApril 5, 2016
EBENEZER COOKE (fl. ca. 1680s—1730s?) of Maryland is a major figure in colonial American literature.…
Ebenezer CookeMarch 29, 2016
From time to time an unsuspecting tourist visiting the ruins of the Old Sheldon Church…
Gail JarvisMarch 22, 2016
A slightly different version of this essay is Chapter Eleven in Brion McClanahan, The Politically…
Brion McClanahanMarch 17, 2016
The following is a transcription of a speech given at the inaugural Education Conference…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 15, 2016
“To live honestly is to hurt no one, and give to every one his due.”-Lysander…
Matt De SantiMarch 8, 2016
Mr. Newhouse’s daughter in Atlanta no longer knew what to do about her younger son,…
Randall IveyMarch 1, 2016
Over time a man, if he is perceptive, comes to certain conclusions. The most startling…
Barry ClarkFebruary 23, 2016
This essay is a chapter in M.E. Bradford, Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a…
M.E. BradfordFebruary 18, 2016
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