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Conservatism and the Southern Tradition

By Duncan Killen

A review of Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books, 2018) by Sir Roger Scruton. There is no such thing as conservatism, according to Sir Roger Scruton’s 155-page monograph, Conservatism: An Invitation… »

Deep Water

By Jason Stewart

A review of Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (LSU Press, 2019) by Thomas Ruys Smith In Deep Water: the Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain prominent Mississippi… »

Conservatism and the Southern Tradition

By Duncan Killen

A review of Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books, 2018) by Sir Roger Scruton. There is no such thing as conservatism, according to Sir Roger Scruton’s 155-page monograph, Conservatism: An Invitation… »

  • Book Review
  • Duncan Killen
  • Featured
  • Roger Scruton
  • Southern Conservatism
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition
  • Thomas Jefferson

Deep Water

By Jason Stewart

A review of Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (LSU Press, 2019) by Thomas Ruys Smith In Deep Water: the Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain prominent Mississippi… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Jason Stewart
  • Mark Twain
  • Mississippi River
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Tradition
  • Thomas Ruys Smith

James Henley Thornwell and the Metaphysical Confederacy

By Zachary Garris

A review of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values (Second Edition; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999) by James Farmer The role of religion leading up to the War… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • James Farmer
  • James Henley Thornwell
  • Slavery
  • Southern Religion
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Zachary Garris

Edmund Kirby Smith

By Wes Franklin

A review of General Edmund Kirby Smith C.S.A. (LSU Press, 1992 (1954) by Joseph H. Parks This biography is a must read for any student of the War for Southern Independence in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.… »

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  • Kirby Smith
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Wes Franklin

John Brown’s Body

By Neil Kumar

A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993) by Otto Scott. The Leftist political violence that has engulfed the disintegrating American nation for much of the past year… »

  • Abolitionists
  • John Brown
  • Neil Kumar
  • Northern Studies
  • War for Southern Independence

Secession Becomes Thinkable

By Donald Livingston

A review of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020) by F.H. Buckley When asked whether a state can constitutionally secede from the United States, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brushed… »

  • Book Review
  • Donald Livingston
  • Featured
  • Secession

Flowering Wisdom

By William Wilson

A Review of Chained Tree, Chained Owls, Poems (Green Altar Books, 2020) by Catharine Savage Brosman. This is Catharine Savage Brosman’s twelfth book of poems, and the praise for her work has increased with each… »

  • Book Review
  • Catharine Savage Brosman
  • Featured
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Poetry
  • William Wilson

“You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me”

By Joshua Doggrell

A review of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (University of California Press, 2014) by Nadine Hubbs If I had been told a short while ago that I would soon read a book by the Professor… »

  • Book Review
  • Cancel Culture
  • Country Music
  • David Allen Coe
  • Featured
  • Joshua Doggrell
  • Nadine Hubbs
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New Confederate Territory

By Clyde Wilson

A review of Cleburne: A Graphic Novel (Rampart Press, 2008) by Justin S. Murphy and others. The graphic novel is a major feature of literature in these times.  Southerners can indeed be happy that the… »

  • Book Review
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Featured
  • Justin Murphy
  • Patrick Cleburne
  • War for Southern Independence

Words of Wisdom

By James Ronald Kennedy

A review of Southern Scribblings (Red Mill Publishing, 2020) by Brion McClanahan In an age in which error, falsehood, and perversion are regaled by the politically correct, neo-Marxist as being America’s new normal, Brion McClanahan’s… »

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