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Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXXI

By Clyde Wilson

Moving from arrogance to masochism,  Europeans  have  endeavoured to chase away their old feelings of ethnocentrism , all the while flattering similar sentiments in other races and cultures.   Great efforts have been made to break… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southernisms

Calhoun’s Carolina

By Clyde Wilson

John C. Culhoon. Culhoon is the right pronunciation by the way. John C. Culhoon was an upcountryman. We upcountry people tend to suspect Charlestonians, like Dr. Fleming, of being somewhat haughty and dissipated. Calhoun studied… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Southern History

Why The War Was Not About Slavery

By Clyde Wilson

Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about” slavery or was “caused by” slavery. I submit that this is not a historical judgment but a political slogan. What… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

Dilorenzo and His Critics

By Clyde Wilson

Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln has provoked the utterly predictable torrent of abuse from state worshipers and self-appointed prophets of The True American Way. All DiLorenzo has done (and this does not in the… »

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  • Clyde Wilson
  • Harry Jaffa
  • Straussians
  • Tom Dilorenzo

The Way We Are Now

By Clyde Wilson

I promised to keep you updated on our government’s radio ads. In the latest, the Department of Justice offers you its benevolent services for any problem you might be experiencing with school bullies. * *… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • John Tyler
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics

It’s True What They Say About Dixie

By Clyde Wilson

Throughout most of American history region has been a better predictor of political position than party. That aspect of our reality has been neglected and suppressed in recent times as the rest of the country… »

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  • Clyde Wilson
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Southern History
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Robert E. Lee and the American Union

By Clyde Wilson

“And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice…..” — Thucydides Lee made few political statements, as befits a soldier. When he did it was almost always in private… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Robert E. Lee
  • War for Southern Independence

Black Confederates?

By Clyde Wilson

A review of Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, 447 pages; and Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slavemasters in South Carolina, 1790-1860, by… »

  • Black Americans
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence

Introduction to James Pettigrew’s Notes on Spain

By Clyde Wilson

Introduction This is James Johnston Pettigrew’s only book, privately printed in Charleston in the first weeks of the War between the States and here for the first time published. In the opening passage the author… »

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  • James Johnston Pettigrew
  • Southern Literature
  • War for Southern Independence

The Jeffersonian Democrat Rediscovered

By Clyde Wilson

A Review of A Plague on Both Your Houses, by Robert W. Whitaker. New York: Robert B. Luce, 1976, 208 pages. Hardly anyone has commented upon the seeming disappearance from American life of the Jeffersonian… »

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  • Clyde Wilson
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  • Republicanism
  • Thomas Jefferson

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