The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2021 Topics: Tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanDecember 6, 2021
“My shirt is ragged and my pants are tore. I ain’t found nothin’ I’m a-looking…
J.L. BennettDecember 3, 2021
Editor's note: The author of this piece won the Bennett History Medal in 1908 for…
D. Ralph Midyette, Jr.December 2, 2021
A few more words, and we shall be in a condition to answer the question…
Raphael SemmesDecember 1, 2021
The proud folks of The Old Dominion turned their state from Blue back to Red…
James Ronald KennedyNovember 30, 2021
The Thanksgiving holiday always puts me in mind of the history of this country from…
Boyd CatheyNovember 29, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Nov 22-26, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
Brion McClanahanNovember 27, 2021
Of all the giants that strode through my childhood, some loom larger than others: Some…
Travis HoltNovember 26, 2021
In the future some historian shall come forth both strong and wise-- With a love…
James Barron HopeNovember 25, 2021
On Saturday, November 20, MSNBC aired a segment by activist Gyasi Ross comparing Thanksgiving to…
Brion McClanahanNovember 24, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life (Random House, 2021) by Allen Guelzo “How…
Casey ChalkNovember 23, 2021
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,/ Rough-hew them how we will.” - Hamlet V,…
Thomas HubertNovember 22, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Nov 15-19, 2021 Topics: Foreign Policy, Southern…
Brion McClanahanNovember 20, 2021
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered in 1917 and was published in the September issue…
H.W. JohnstonNovember 19, 2021
The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the…
J. William FulbrightNovember 18, 2021
By 1860 our country was so hopelessly divided that it broke up, and only by…
M.C. AtkinsNovember 17, 2021
As in the practice of lingchi, the ancient Chinese form of slow and painful execution…
John MarquardtNovember 16, 2021
Many years ago I spent five fantastic weeks in Boston during the fall. Though I…
Casey ChalkNovember 15, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Nov 8-12, 2021 Topics: Lost Cause, Social…
Brion McClanahanNovember 13, 2021
I was chairman of the Annual Confederate Flag Day at the North Carolina State…
Boyd CatheyNovember 12, 2021
John Rock was an American teacher, doctor, dentist, lawyer and abolitionist. Rock was one of…
Rod O'BarrNovember 11, 2021
Editor's Note: Often considered one of the more important "Lost Cause" post-bellum narratives, Letitia Burwell's…
Letitia M. BurwellNovember 10, 2021
A review of Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict (Reformation Zion Publishing, 2021) by…
Darrell DowNovember 9, 2021
Editor's Note: Former Abbeville Institute summer school student Jon Harris and his Last Stand Studios…
abbeinstituteNovember 8, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Nov 1-5, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanNovember 6, 2021
Dr. Paul Gottfried's speech at the annual Confederate Flag Day commemoration in the historic 1840…
Boyd CatheyNovember 5, 2021
Missouri celebrated her 160th anniversary of her secession from the Union on October 28. It…
Wes FranklinNovember 4, 2021
Critical to the debate regarding the right of secession is where, in the minds of…
Rod O'BarrNovember 3, 2021
The current conservative populist movement appears to offer some hope of mounting an effective resistance…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 2, 2021
In August, Thomas Moore, novelist and founding Chairman of the Southern National Congress, passed away…
Clyde WilsonNovember 1, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Oct 25-29, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, slavery,…
Brion McClanahanOctober 30, 2021
Editor's Note: United States Senator Thomas F. Bayard delivered this speech in January, 1875…
Thomas F. BayardOctober 29, 2021
It has become fashionable to bash the South - not only by removing war memorials…
Rev. Larry BeaneOctober 28, 2021
George Will writes what amounts to a review of Allen C. Guelzo’s biography, Robert E.…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 27, 2021
Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated…
John DevannyOctober 26, 2021
At the University of Virginia, Room No.13 on the fabled Lawn is reserved as a…
Casey ChalkOctober 25, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, October 18-22, 2021 Topics: Southern Tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanOctober 23, 2021
The delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, presumptuously shelving that…
J.L. BennettOctober 22, 2021
Our farm was a broadly covered area of green stalks, blanketing the ground for hundreds…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 21, 2021
After finishing a biography titled, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty, by John Kukla, I am…
Julie PaineOctober 20, 2021
A review of When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern…
Terry HulseyOctober 19, 2021
Over the past several years I have been writing essays for several publications and…
Boyd CatheyOctober 18, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 11-15, 2021 Topics: Southern Tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanOctober 16, 2021
It is not the purpose of this article to set forth any new discovery, nor…
William Robertson GarrettOctober 15, 2021
This article was originally published in the May 1916 issue of the Journal of Political…
William E. DoddOctober 14, 2021
When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won…
Sam FrancisOctober 13, 2021
This essay was originally published in the August 1995 issue of Chronicles magazine. Some folks…
John Shelton ReedOctober 12, 2021
The routine removal of Confederate statues signifies a new stage in the evolution of political…
Philip LeighOctober 11, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Oct 4-8, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Wokism,…
Brion McClanahanOctober 9, 2021
“Aggressive abroad and despotic at home.” --Robert E. Lee The empire Lincoln built is on…
Thomas RileyOctober 8, 2021
The locusts descend upon the land. Not the literal ones, but a kind much worse,…
Travis HoltOctober 7, 2021
The latest major study issued by a blue-ribbon commission on racism infecting American culture comes…
Boyd CatheyOctober 5, 2021
Thomas Carlyle said that it takes men of worth to recognize worth in men (1).…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.October 4, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Sept 27 - Oct 1, 2021 Topics:…
Brion McClanahanOctober 2, 2021
The following is an excerpt from an article by a man named Troy Cauley. It…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 1, 2021
A review of Irreconcilable Founders: Spencer Roane, John Marshall, and the Nature of America's Constitutional…
Aaron N. ColemanSeptember 30, 2021
I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised. After all it was completely logical, the inevitable…
Boyd CatheySeptember 29, 2021
Who has not heard of Wounded Knee? Most know at least the general facts surrounding…
Valerie ProtopapasSeptember 28, 2021
My wife, Elizabeth, comes from a village called Greenwich in northern New York state. Among…
Barton CockeySeptember 27, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, September 20-24, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 25, 2021
A lot has happened in the last 20 years. Reflecting on the terrorist attack on…
Lola SanchezSeptember 24, 2021
We’ve all heard some cliché joke about ‘voices in our head’, usually posted over and…
Travis HoltSeptember 23, 2021
In a significant departure for this series, the 9th installment of What Makes This Musician…
Tom DanielSeptember 22, 2021
Perhaps it was after watching yet another film depicting the South as irredeemably backwards and…
Casey ChalkSeptember 21, 2021
Regarding Afghanistan. There is nothing to say that has not been said better by those,…
Enoch CadeSeptember 20, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Sept 13-17, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 18, 2021
The numerous declarations among "right-wing" websites, blogs, and print publications usually present a conundrum of…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 17, 2021
Conditions and Limitations of Southern Educational Efforts. In the discussion of educational interests and educational…
Robert Burwell FultonSeptember 16, 2021
Freddy Fender? You mean that Mexican fella? No, I mean the Southern musical pioneer from…
Tom DanielSeptember 15, 2021
A review of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect…
Terry HulseySeptember 14, 2021
This piece was originally published in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 1914. Replies…
James Barron HopeSeptember 13, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Sep 6-10, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 11, 2021
The court historian is as old as history itself. Early states were based on the…
Jason MorganSeptember 10, 2021
Biblical history tells us that Abrahamic monotheism, the foundation of not only Judaism but Christianity…
John MarquardtSeptember 9, 2021
As I talk to people about American music and Southern music, I’ve noticed that many…
Tom DanielSeptember 8, 2021
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…
Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 30 - September 3, 2021 Topics:…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 4, 2021
Editor's note: The following story was told by "Private" John Allen, a Congressmen from Mississippi…
John M. AllenSeptember 3, 2021
THOMAS JEFFERSON TO ROGER C. WEIGHTMAN MONTICELLO, June 24, 1826. RESPECTED SIR: The kind invitation…
Thomas JeffersonSeptember 2, 2021
L. Q. C. LAMAR TO THE VICKSBURG COMMITTEE OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 5, 1870. To Col.…
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus LamarSeptember 1, 2021
The sixth Southern musician to be examined in this series of What Makes This Musician…
Tom DanielAugust 31, 2021
Originally published in the March 1998 issue of Reason magazine. Local busybodies target the front…
John Shelton ReedAugust 30, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 23-27, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanAugust 28, 2021
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses…
Michael R. BradleyAugust 27, 2021
The modern academic narrative says that the South’s purpose in secession and war was to…
Rod O'BarrAugust 26, 2021
In this fifth installment of the series “What Makes This Musician Great,” we will travel…
Tom DanielAugust 25, 2021
A review of Our Comfort in Dying (Sola Fide Publications, 2021), R. L. Dabney and…
Forrest L. MarionAugust 24, 2021
Americans have a weird relationship with their roots. Most folk want to be from somewhere,…
Casey ChalkAugust 23, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Aug 16-20, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanAugust 21, 2021
Esteem you for your genius? Just a little— But most of all your people loved…
Thomas RileyAugust 20, 2021
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of…
Valerie ProtopapasAugust 19, 2021
The opponents of Southern heritage often repeat the trope: “You lost, get over it.” One…
Rev. Larry BeaneAugust 17, 2021
Growing up in mostly-rural North Carolina, most of my friends and especially their parents could…
Boyd CatheyAugust 16, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Aug 9-13, 2021 Topics: The War, Secession,…
Brion McClanahanAugust 14, 2021
During the past thirty years most historians claim that slavery was the dominant cause of…
Philip LeighAugust 13, 2021
That Southern secession was ultimately about independence with or without slavery is easily determined by…
Rod O'BarrAugust 12, 2021
In this third installment of the series “What Makes this Musician Great,” I will try…
Tom DanielAugust 11, 2021
A review of Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 (Abbeville Institute Press,…
Dave BennerAugust 10, 2021
The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2-17) are the creed of both Christians…
John MarquardtAugust 9, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, August 2-6, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanAugust 7, 2021
My heart bled along the Waccamaw, where ancient warriors reigned. I wonder if their spirits…
Demetrius Garland BowmanAugust 6, 2021
This essay was originally published in the February 1936 issue of The American Review. Years…
Frank L. OwlsleyAugust 5, 2021
This is the second installment of the series ‘What Makes this Musician Great,” and will…
Tom DanielAugust 4, 2021
Editor's Note: In an effort to "explore what is true and valuable in the Southern…
Robert Y. DrakeAugust 3, 2021
I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute July 26-30, 2021 Topics: Southern tradition, Southern…
Brion McClanahanJuly 31, 2021
At the top of the hill where my great-grandparents lived, there was a dusty, black…
Travis HoltJuly 30, 2021
Daniel Webster was one of the most notable Northern statesmen of his day. He was…
Rod O'BarrJuly 29, 2021
John Taylor was born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1750, one year before James Madison,…
Gaillard HuntJuly 28, 2021
Recently, I started looking into the connections between musical preferences and personality types. In the…
Tom DanielJuly 27, 2021
“Who's your people?” Though now somewhat rare, one still hears that question in Dixie, usually…
Casey ChalkJuly 26, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 19-23, 2021 Topics: Southern Tradition, Cancel…
Brion McClanahanJuly 24, 2021
Their carven words all testify Of then and now and future time That these were…
James Everett KiblerJuly 23, 2021
Although commonly portrayed as one of the largest mob attacks on blacks by white racists…
Philip LeighJuly 22, 2021
It is maddening to listen to people who attempt “conservative thought” with but a shallow…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 21, 2021
If timid and pacified Southerners needed more proof that we are a defeated and occupied…
James Ronald KennedyJuly 20, 2021
Many Southerners are familiar with James “Ron” Kennedy and his brother, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, who…
Boyd CatheyJuly 19, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, July 12-16, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture, Yankees,…
Brion McClanahanJuly 17, 2021
“To those who are ignorant of the jurisprudence of their country can have no taste…
Justin PedersonJuly 16, 2021
With the onset of the latest leftist government regime, many Americans are migrating South to…
Leslie AlexanderJuly 15, 2021
The date of the latest federal holiday, June 19th, was touted as the one marking…
John MarquardtJuly 14, 2021
Hit mus’ be now de kingdom comin’, an’ de year ob Jubilo! ... (1) "Liberty,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.July 13, 2021
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as…
Enoch CadeJuly 12, 2021
The week in review at the Abbeville Institute July 5-9, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture, Southern…
Brion McClanahanJuly 10, 2021
I have been studying the War Between the States for 53 years. In all those…
Timothy A. DuskinJuly 8, 2021
Some twenty years ago I had planned to write a full-length study of John Pelham—known…
Thomas HubertJuly 7, 2021
The "ultimate cause" of the War of Secession was two mutually exclusive understanding of government.…
Valerie ProtopapasJuly 6, 2021
July 4, “Independence Day,” has become for most Americans little more than another holiday, a…
Boyd CatheyJuly 5, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute June 28-July 2, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture,…
Brion McClanahanJuly 3, 2021
The solution offered by Mr Vivek Ramaswamy to the destructive ideology of the Woke Social…
Walt GarlingtonJuly 2, 2021
The Southern version of Thoreau’s Walden may be considered I’ll Take by Stand, by Twelve…
Charles Stewart Roberts, MDJuly 1, 2021
In past columns I have written about some classic films, some of which have been…
Boyd CatheyJune 30, 2021
A review of Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (University Press of Kansas,…
Terry HulseyJune 29, 2021
Facebook canceled the Abbeville Institute. I was notified on June 10 that the Abbeville Institute…
Brion McClanahanJune 28, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 21-25, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture, Southern…
Brion McClanahanJune 27, 2021
We all, as we go through life, encounter people that who deserve to be remembered.…
Travis HoltJune 25, 2021
While the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has also wreaked havoc throughout the South, there was…
John MarquardtJune 24, 2021
“The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised,”…
Casey ChalkJune 23, 2021
God’s guidance and blessing began in Virginia. But Civil War is where we are today.…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 22, 2021
As most Americans have learned by now, in their rush to do something politically correct,…
Samuel AshwoodJune 21, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 14-18, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture, Western…
Brion McClanahanJune 19, 2021
Sometimes readers will ask me: “Why did you write on that? What were you trying to…
Boyd CatheyJune 17, 2021
On June 1, 2021, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) – historic, meritocratic, renowned for rigor…
Forrest L. MarionJune 16, 2021
A review of Rebirthing Lincoln, A Biography (Southern Books, 2021) by Howard Ray White I…
Clyde WilsonJune 15, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, June 7-11, 2021 Topics: Secession, Southern Tradition,…
Brion McClanahanJune 12, 2021
Original in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. First some context. The South did…
Rod O'BarrJune 11, 2021
A review of The Retribution Conspiracy: The Rise of the Confederate Secret Service (Scuppernong Press,…
James Ronald KennedyJune 10, 2021
The Federalist online magazine has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost…
Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2021
I once wrote an article on the problems arising from what I termed “group condemnation.”…
Valerie ProtopapasJune 8, 2021
As Memorial Day approaches, I am thinking of a man I never met. His name…
Averyell A. KesslerJune 7, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 31 - June 4, 2021 Topics:…
Brion McClanahanJune 5, 2021
Nearly two weeks ago, five counties in Oregon voted to approve a measure to secede…
Cole BranhamJune 4, 2021
And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crimeAre pronest to it, and impute themselves…Tennyson,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 3, 2021
One of my colleagues in the ministry of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS)…
Rev. Larry BeaneJune 2, 2021
Reviewers are unrelenting in their praise for the new Amazon streaming television series The Underground…
Casey ChalkMay 31, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 24-28, 2021 Topics: Reconstruction, Social Justice,…
abbeinstituteMay 29, 2021
“How time changes everything.” This quote came from the lips of a fairly surprised man…
Travis HoltMay 28, 2021
Why bother with opening the schools, if all that you’ll have is the same uneducated…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 27, 2021
While Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation Theology are 20th century creations, the cultural and…
James (Jim) PedersonMay 26, 2021
Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…
Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…
Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 17-21, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture, Political…
abbeinstituteMay 22, 2021
For Christmas, I gave my granddaughter a compilation of Eudora Welty’s novels. She’s an avid…
Averyell A. KesslerMay 21, 2021
In the 1986 comedy film Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield’s character, Thornton Mellon, a wealthy,…
Ryan WaltersMay 20, 2021
Originally posted at LewRockwell.com You may remember a meme circulating widely after the U.S. presidential…
Jo Ann CavalloMay 19, 2021
A review of Secession, State & Liberty, (Transaction, 1998) edited with an introduction by David…
Terry HulseyMay 18, 2021
As the “Exceptional Nation” totters and pratfalls further toward perdition, some on what is commonly,…
Enoch CadeMay 17, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute May 10-14, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture, Robert…
abbeinstituteMay 15, 2021
During the ongoing debate regarding the removal of the monuments honoring Confederate Generals, those in…
Prioleau AlexanderMay 14, 2021
Over half a century before the Imperial German Navy launched its new and deadly method…
John MarquardtMay 13, 2021
Continued from Part 3. “And of all the officers or men whom I ever knew he…
Earl StarbuckMay 12, 2021
In the early 1870s, a young pre-law student at Howard College was inspired by classmate…
James W. Whitehead VMay 11, 2021
After the end of the War Between the States, the Union army established the District…
Timothy A. DuskinMay 10, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, May 3-7, 2021 Topics: Southern Politics, Cancel…
abbeinstituteMay 8, 2021
In 1960, the great Southern political philosopher Richard Weaver penned an essay titled “Conservatism and…
Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2021
Continued from Part 2. “He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a…
Earl StarbuckMay 5, 2021
A review of Preachers with Power: Four Stalwarts of the South (Banner of Truth, 1992)…
Karen StokesMay 4, 2021
Abraham Lincoln has become, for most mainline conservatives, an icon, and, along with Martin Luther…
Boyd CatheyMay 3, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 26-30. 2021 Topics: Political Correctness, Robert…
abbeinstituteMay 1, 2021
Written in the Year 2021 Hampton, our stalwart Wade, As wily as Odysseus in warAs…
James Everett KiblerApril 30, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the political left into an apoplectic rage two weeks ago when…
Brion McClanahanApril 29, 2021
Continued from Part I. “He was a superb specimen of manly grace and elegance…There was…
Earl StarbuckApril 28, 2021
Daybreak in Dixie: Poems of the Confederacy by Linda Lee. Privately published, 2019. For those…
Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2021
On April 14, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden announced that, beginning May 1, the United…
Jason MorganApril 26, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 19-23, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
abbeinstituteApril 24, 2021
Ah! My Lord Arthur, whither shall I go?Where shall I hide my forehead and my…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 23, 2021
In the Year of Our Lord 2021, it is fashionable for American Christians to despise…
Earl StarbuckApril 22, 2021
Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War.…
Philip LeighApril 21, 2021
Like many traditional-minded people of this era, I have become disenchanted with products of the…
Anne Wilson SmithApril 20, 2021
Our “conservative” punditry go forth daily in what seems increasingly to be an already lost…
Boyd CatheyApril 19, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, April 12-16, 2021 Topics: the War, Robert…
abbeinstituteApril 17, 2021
The spring of 1850 is an ominous perpetrator. Notwithstanding the crisis our country faced during…
Brad PondApril 16, 2021
Robert E. Lee's tenure as President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) should…
Philip LeighApril 15, 2021
During the past half century, there has been an ever-increasing tide of derogatory comments about…
John MarquardtApril 14, 2021
A Review of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery…
Joshua DoggrellApril 13, 2021
We have been told that the first shot fired in the "Civil War” was fired…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 12, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute April 5-9, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
abbeinstituteApril 10, 2021
Take up the White Man’s burden – Ye dare not stoop to less –Nor call…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 9, 2021
Major League Baseball on 2 April announced that both the All Star Game and the…
Casey ChalkApril 8, 2021
On the Ingraham Angle recently, guest, Craig Shirley offered an opinion that should cheer the…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 7, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of…
Gene Kizer, Jr.April 6, 2021
Three years ago, Woke General Ty Seidule of West Point addressed the students and faculty…
Abbeville InstituteApril 5, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute March 29 - April 2, 2021 Topics:…
abbeinstituteApril 3, 2021
“Take but degree away, untune that string,And hark! what discord follows! Each thing meetsIn mere…
Jack TrotterApril 2, 2021
It’s strange to think that until 1962 — when the Houston’s Colt .45’s enjoyed their…
Casey ChalkApril 1, 2021
Sometimes, you need to go halfway around the world in order to make a point,…
Tom DanielMarch 31, 2021
No American is more vilified than John C. Calhoun. A recent biography has labeled him…
Brion McClanahanMarch 30, 2021
Any fool can write history, and many do. Please do not assume that I mean…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute March 22-26, 2021 Topics: Robert E. Lee,…
abbeinstituteMarch 27, 2021
A white house sits on the outskirts of a small town in upstate South Carolina.…
Tom HerveyMarch 26, 2021
Published in 2016, the book Our Man in Charleston tells the story of Robert Bunch…
Karen StokesMarch 25, 2021
Many today feel that true Southerners living in the eleven States of the former Confederacy…
John MarquardtMarch 24, 2021
A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. A…
Terry HulseyMarch 23, 2021
Ty Seidule's mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters:…
Philip LeighMarch 22, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute March 15-19, 2021 Topics: John C. Calhoun,…
abbeinstituteMarch 20, 2021
I read this piece to the Jackson Writers Guild a year ago. Since then, we’ve…
Averyell A. KesslerMarch 19, 2021
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered before the Senate on March 12, 1910, at the…
Henry Cabot LodgeMarch 18, 2021
For some time now I have had a passion for classic films, in particular those…
Boyd CatheyMarch 17, 2021
A review of The Greatest of All Leathernecks (LSU Press, 2019) by Joseph Simon. Anyone…
Rev. Benjamin GlaserMarch 16, 2021
It is time to consider the crimes committed against Southern prisoners of war by their…
Valerie ProtopapasMarch 15, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute March 8-12, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture, Yankees,…
abbeinstituteMarch 13, 2021
As part of its campaign to pander to the important and urgent needs of African-Americans…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 12, 2021
The Virginia Military Institute, ever the underdog. . . . For longtime VMI football fans,…
Forrest L. MarionMarch 11, 2021
These past several years, we Americans have been living in an accelerating anti-cultural vortex. Day…
Jason MorganMarch 10, 2021
“Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?” asks one of the characters on…
Casey ChalkMarch 9, 2021
I have written here before about my beloved hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama. Forgive me if…
Tom DanielMarch 8, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, March 1-5, 2021 Topics: Cancel Culture, Political…
abbeinstituteMarch 6, 2021
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which He hath made…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.March 5, 2021
During last week’s ice storm misery, I thought a lot about my southern upbringing and…
Averyell A. KesslerMarch 4, 2021
In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the…
Karen StokesMarch 2, 2021
Two terms that are tossed about with great liberality today are “racist” and “white supremacist.” …
Rev. Larry BeaneMarch 1, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Feb 22-26, 2021 Topics: George Washington, Robert…
abbeinstituteFebruary 27, 2021
“The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes. 2020. I have written…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 26, 2021
The principal character in Joyce Maynard’s 1992 novel “To Die For” said that if you…
John MarquardtFebruary 25, 2021
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