The true legacy of Lincoln usually gets drowned in the perennial gush about a president…
Ilana MercerJanuary 5, 2022
In the warped minds of today’s so-called “woke,” even such an evocative holiday song as…
John MarquardtDecember 9, 2021
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,/ Rough-hew them how we will.” - Hamlet V,…
Thomas HubertNovember 22, 2021
Thomas Carlyle said that it takes men of worth to recognize worth in men (1).…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.October 4, 2021
Who has not heard of Wounded Knee? Most know at least the general facts surrounding…
Valerie ProtopapasSeptember 28, 2021
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of…
Valerie ProtopapasAugust 19, 2021
During the past thirty years most historians claim that slavery was the dominant cause of…
Philip LeighAugust 13, 2021
The date of the latest federal holiday, June 19th, was touted as the one marking…
John MarquardtJuly 14, 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
A review of Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (University Press of Kansas,…
Terry HulseyJune 29, 2021
As most Americans have learned by now, in their rush to do something politically correct,…
Samuel AshwoodJune 21, 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
And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crimeAre pronest to it, and impute themselves…Tennyson,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 3, 2021
Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…
Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
As the “Exceptional Nation” totters and pratfalls further toward perdition, some on what is commonly,…
Enoch CadeMay 17, 2021
After the end of the War Between the States, the Union army established the District…
Timothy A. DuskinMay 10, 2021
Abraham Lincoln has become, for most mainline conservatives, an icon, and, along with Martin Luther…
Boyd CatheyMay 3, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the political left into an apoplectic rage two weeks ago when…
Brion McClanahanApril 29, 2021
We have been told that the first shot fired in the "Civil War” was fired…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 12, 2021
As part of its campaign to pander to the important and urgent needs of African-Americans…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 12, 2021
The Washington establishment, led by a senile 78-year-old man who can barely speak in complete…
Thomas DiLorenzoFebruary 9, 2021
America has a Lincoln problem. Professor Tom DiLorenzo explains why our nearly deification of "Honest…
Thomas DiLorenzoJanuary 26, 2021
Legendary financier J. P. Morgan once said: “A man always has two reasons for doing…
Philip LeighJanuary 15, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zksz7mOggqI&feature=youtu.be The Gettysburg Address is perhaps the most iconic speech in American history. Students are…
Brion McClanahanDecember 3, 2020
"May 29, 1856 "Abraham Lincoln, of Sangamon, came upon the platform amid deafening applause. He…
Vito MussomeliDecember 2, 2020
Secession: The point of the spear aimed at the heart of the American Leviathan –…
Terry HulseyNovember 20, 2020
The pattern for modern American politics was set by Lincoln and his cronies in the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 16, 2020
“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the…
Valerie ProtopapasNovember 2, 2020
What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of…
Valerie ProtopapasOctober 14, 2020
The 2020 presidential election took a decided turn as it moved into the final six…
Ryan WaltersOctober 9, 2020
A recent article in Hillsdale College’s newsletter “Imprimis” compared Lebron James and Colin Kaepernick to…
Wes FranklinSeptember 4, 2020
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.August 27, 2020
From the 1870s to the late 1950s, there was an unofficial truce between the North…
Samuel W. MitchamJuly 22, 2020
The Legend of the Speech Abraham Lincoln’s dedicatory speech of the memorial cemetery at Gettysburg…
Christopher KirkJuly 21, 2020
“The problem with Lincoln is the problem with America,” said my friend Clyde Wilson when…
Thomas DiLorenzoJune 29, 2020
A Japanese neighbor of ours in Tokyo, a former university professor, has written a number…
John MarquardtJune 5, 2020
Just as the Earth revolves on its axis each day and travels around the Sun…
John MarquardtMarch 13, 2020
A review of The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil…
John C. WhatleyMarch 10, 2020
10. Spielberg’s Lincoln (X) Spielberg’s Lincoln. Life is short. Although I am a devoted if…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 7, 2020
Not that long ago, it seems, Congressional Democrats were calling the Constitution an outdated impediment…
J.L. BennettJanuary 10, 2020
It is disturbing when you see a man like Tucker Carlson, who seems a reasonably…
Paul H. YarbroughNovember 21, 2019
A recent National Review column in the silly Northern War over 1619 contained this unfortunate…
Aaron GleasonOctober 10, 2019
A review of Lincoln (Simon and Schuster, 1995) by David Herbert Donald Professor David Herbert…
Kevin R.C. GutzmanOctober 8, 2019
A semantic technique that has worked well for political types is renaming things to make…
Gail JarvisAugust 16, 2019
Illinois’ Governor J.B. Pritzer has banned the Southern rock band Confederate Railroad from the Illinois…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 17, 2019
Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of the nation's greatest Presidents. He is the…
Michael SchearerJune 6, 2019
So, smart moms in two homeschool social-media groups of which I’m a member are super-excited…
Dissident MamaApril 19, 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 Slavery, Secession, & Civil War: Views from the United Kingdom and Europe,…
Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 27, 2018
We are threatened by a powerful, dangerous, conspiracy of evil men. The conspiracy is the…
Ludwell H. JohnsonNovember 16, 2018
Prehistoric warfare was total war in which victors normally killed all enemy women, children, and…
Norman BlackNovember 12, 2018
The latest in Lincoln polemics comes courtesy of Rich Lowry, editor of National Review. In…
Jack KerwickNovember 2, 2018
A review of Lincoln: As He Really Was by Charles T. Pace (Shotwell Publishing, 2018).…
Michael PottsOctober 23, 2018
A Review of The Election of 1860: “A Campaign Fraught with Consequences” by Michael F.…
Joe WolvertonSeptember 25, 2018
Galactic Imperium News Service (GINS) Special Report: Will Democrats and Republicans in America finally set…
Lewis LibermanSeptember 14, 2018
There is a 1909 “Lincoln penny” attached to the probe arm of Curiosity, a unit…
Malcolm McNeillAugust 24, 2018
In case you haven’t heard, there is a new “conservative” film out; it is titled…
Boyd CatheyAugust 6, 2018
This essay is Chapter 13 in Mr. Taylor's Union At All Costs: From Confederation to…
John M. TaylorJuly 30, 2018
On June 19, 1865, Union forces arrived in Galveston, Texas and declared to the population…
Timothy A. DuskinJune 25, 2018
I've always been fascinated by those tricky slogans politicians and social activists use to dupe…
Gail JarvisJune 1, 2018
No one interested in American history can escape Abraham Lincoln. Over the years the outpouring…
Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 9, 2018
When the Pacific phase of World War Two began in December of 1941, Great Britain’s…
John MarquardtApril 23, 2018
Propaganda. It’s a well-known word defined as “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature,…
Ryan WaltersFebruary 16, 2018
More than 150 years after the Civil War, the nation is engulfed in controversy over…
Jacob G. HornbergerJanuary 24, 2018
A review of Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution by Harry Jafffa, (Regnery,…
William J. WatkinsDecember 19, 2017
A review of Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (Lawrence, KS: University…
John DevannyOctober 31, 2017
Russian-American relations over the past two and a half centuries, like the weather in Alaska,…
John MarquardtOctober 16, 2017
Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free: Beginning of Jefferson's Statue for Religious Freedom,…
Vito MussomeliSeptember 25, 2017
"Some crazy person just compared President Abraham Lincoln to Hitler. Yes, this just happened on…
Ilana MercerSeptember 7, 2017
Recent years have seen a new revisionist theme emerge in the history of America’s two…
Ryan WaltersSeptember 4, 2017
Lincoln’s War established a permanent, centralized regime of crony capitalism for the formerly federal U.S.…
Norman BlackAugust 11, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When historians discuss reasons for Southern secession,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 31, 2017
Anyone who has been paying attention has heard many times the assertion that the flag…
Clyde WilsonJune 14, 2017
George Orwell, in his dystopian novel 1984, wrote that “Ignorance is strength.” Big Brother thrives…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 1, 2017
In a recent interview on Sirius XM, President Trump, now completely enthralled by Andrew Jackson,…
Ryan WaltersMay 2, 2017
Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…
Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
The great body of the nation has no real interest in party. — James Fenimore…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 23, 2017
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington stare silently at one another across the reflecting pool on…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 22, 2017
No one interested in American history can escape Abraham Lincoln. Over the years the outpouring…
Ludwell H. JohnsonFebruary 13, 2017
"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” wrote Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway in 1775.…
Ryan WaltersDecember 5, 2016
A few of us now decrepit pre-Reagan “conservatives” can remember the brief flicker of hope…
Clyde WilsonOctober 26, 2016
Reprinted from brionmcclanahan.com As the first leg of the American invasion force rolled through Iraq…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 27, 2016
Jefferson Davis was the conservative who tried vainly to save the Union in the face…
Bernard ThuersamAugust 2, 2016
A friend of mine is translating a book on Lincoln written by Karl Marx. Her…
Valerie ProtopapasJuly 25, 2016
Recently a commencement speaker exhorted graduating students to "be on the right side of history."…
Gail JarvisJuly 7, 2016
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth In his first Inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln explained his moral justification for invading…
Donald LivingstonJune 28, 2016
This essay was originally published at TheImagninativeConservative.org and is republished here by permission. The finest…
Bradley J. BirzerJune 16, 2016
According to the standard narrative maintained by the North, Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation brought about…
Dave BennerMay 16, 2016
This piece was originally published in Chronicles Magazine, October 2012. “O Fame, O Fame! Many…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2016
“We abhor the doctrine of the "Types of Mankind;" first, because it is at war…
Brion McClanahanMay 3, 2016
Few, if any, currently prominent historians voice unqualified objection to the destruction of Confederate monuments.…
Philip LeighMay 2, 2016
United States District Judge Carlton Reeves is considering a lawsuit by Mississippi attorney Carlos Moore…
Donald LivingstonApril 15, 2016
My recent piece on James Ryder Randall, "At Arlington", touched a nerve, at least with…
Brion McClanahanApril 12, 2016
The PC police have found a new target. Not satisfied with monuments and flags, the…
Brion McClanahanApril 5, 2016
Many people know that the state of West Virginia came to be during the Civil…
Dave BennerMarch 28, 2016
The most frequent question I have received during promotion of my new book, 9 Presidents…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 26, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, February 15-19, 2016. Topic: Abraham Lincoln https://soundcloud.com/the-abbeville-institute/episode-14
Brion McClanahanFebruary 21, 2016
Dave Benner, Compact of the Republic: The League of the States and the Constitution (Life…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 19, 2016
This essay is a chapter in M.E. Bradford, Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a…
M.E. BradfordFebruary 18, 2016
Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln has provoked the utterly predictable torrent of abuse from…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 17, 2016
Mr. President, during the special session of the Senate in March last, when seven States…
James A. BayardFebruary 16, 2016
This essay first appeared in National Review, 6/1, June 21, 1958, 18-19. Just one hundred…
Richard M. WeaverFebruary 15, 2016
"And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice….."…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 20, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, December 14-18, 2015 Host: Brion McClanahan Topics:…
Brion McClanahanDecember 21, 2015
Illinois has been known as the “Land of Lincoln” for the past sixty years .…
John MarquardtDecember 18, 2015
We have been taught that the North was united behind Lincoln in his war. This…
John BattellDecember 17, 2015
The Week in Review, December 7-11, 2015, with your host, Brion McClanahan Topics: The origins…
Brion McClanahanDecember 12, 2015
By way of prologue, let me say that all of us like the Lincoln whose…
Thomas LandessDecember 10, 2015
This article was originally published at lewrockwell.com. In all the recent fuss over symbols of…
Kirkpatrick SaleDecember 7, 2015
Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
The main problem with America today is the increasing scarcity of Americans. --Clyde Wilson The…
Clyde WilsonNovember 13, 2015
Recently, I came across a little known case that I wanted to call to your…
Joseph S. JohnstonOctober 13, 2015
The peaceful political separation desired by the American South in early 1861 was best summarized…
Bernard ThuersamOctober 5, 2015
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (2014) by S.C. Gwynne. A…
Terry HulseySeptember 25, 2015
If the modern historical narrative is to be believed, then the antebellum North was the…
Brion McClanahanAugust 31, 2015
In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…
Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
A new video entitled “Was the Civil War About Slavery?” from Prager University is currently…
Dave BennerAugust 14, 2015
Persons interviewed on those amusing and disturbing videos by satirist Mark Dice, were unaware of…
Gail JarvisAugust 13, 2015
“The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
If any American today were to listen to the nationalists in charge of either the…
Brion McClanahanJune 8, 2015
This article was originally published in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 32, No. 1…
Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 28, 2015
Life and Work Why Read Ludwell Johnson? Both Ludwell Johnson’s style of work and…
Joseph R. StrombergMay 26, 2015
This piece was originally printed by Southern Partisan magazine in 1990. In the September issue…
Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 25, 2015
This piece was originally printed at res33blog.com. The commentary by University of North Carolina-Wilmington history…
R.E. Smith, Jr.May 18, 2015
It seems my mission here is to bring to your attention unfamiliar and unfashionable truths…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2015
Originally published by the Unz Review on 15 April 2015. Back in 1990 in Richmond,…
Boyd CatheyApril 17, 2015
Reprinted from res33blog.com with permission. On March 5, 2015 a Wilmington StarNews editorial opinion ran…
R.E. Smith, Jr.March 9, 2015
Today we celebrate the birthday of the log cabin born, rough-hewn, rail-splitting, bare-knuckled, “pock-faced, stoop-shouldered,…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 12, 2015
Is Germany Sovereign? In the wake of revelations of pervasive NSA snooping in Germany, Germans…
Joseph R. StrombergFebruary 10, 2015
In my capacity as editor of the Palmetto Partisan, I keep a very close eye…
Paul C. GrahamJanuary 26, 2015
To the chagrin and mortification of many liberals, Rolling Stone magazine had to apologize for…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJanuary 14, 2015
Maryland is steeped in the history of the American Union. She fiercely defended her position…
Scott StrzelczykJanuary 6, 2015
"To parties of special interests, all political questions appear exclusively as problems of political tactics."…
Clyde WilsonNovember 19, 2014
This piece was originally published on November 16, 2012 on LewRockwell.com and is reprinted here…
Brion McClanahanNovember 17, 2014
Southern history contains many fine examples of literary and artistic merit long ignored by contemporary…
Brion McClanahanNovember 13, 2014
Originally published Nov. 8, 2014 on LewRockwell.com. The Republicans won. What’s next? In a November…
Brion McClanahanNovember 10, 2014
“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war!” Occasionally a scene or event will…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyOctober 27, 2014
As the first American bombs begin to rain down on mud and adobe structures in…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 13, 2014
Many current Americans, indeed perhaps most, regard the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861…
Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2014
“Sic Semper Tyrannis.” — from the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia “I want…
Clyde WilsonOctober 1, 2014
This essay originally appeared in Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 17, 2014
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred so much of the President's Message…
Confederate States of AmericaSeptember 4, 2014
In March, 2014, the Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart had Judge Andrew Napolitano of…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 4, 2014
From April to July of 1863 British Lieutenant Colonel Arthur J. L. Fremantle visited all…
Philip LeighAugust 26, 2014
“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late.…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 21, 2014
The real U.S. Constitution, which was scrapped long ago, does not permit judges to be…
Clyde WilsonAugust 7, 2014
On August 24th, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln wrote to politician and editor Henry J. Raymond…
Valerie ProtopapasJuly 31, 2014
*What American President launched a massive invasion of another country that posed no threat, and…
Clyde WilsonJuly 15, 2014
Too often a narrative is passed from one person to the next until it becomes…
Carl JonesJune 23, 2014
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo on Lincoln's Second American Revolution from the 2005 Abbeville Institute Summer School.…
Thomas DiLorenzoJune 10, 2014
During the time of the secession of South Carolina and other Southern states, and after…
Karen StokesJune 9, 2014
Few actors in history have been hallowed in as many points of the political compass…
Clyde WilsonMay 23, 2014
Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…
Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…
Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Several months ago, The American Conservative magazine reviewed Forgotten Conservatives in American History, a book…
Brion McClanahanMay 12, 2014
When I was a child growing up in Kirkwood Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, I…
David AikenMay 8, 2014
From Bernard Thuersam's website: Senator Robert Toombs and the Cornerstone of the Confederacy “GENTLEMEN OF…
Bernard ThuersamMay 7, 2014
I was disappointed to hear of the demands of a group of Washington & Lee…
James Rutledge RoeschMay 2, 2014
In the present judgment of history—or at least those who are counted worthy to opine…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 22, 2014
"I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign…
Carl JonesApril 16, 2014
In my previous post on this website I addressed the Lincoln’s 1863 revelation to Governor…
Marshall DeRosaApril 14, 2014
Introduction: Centers and Peripheries A look at the early history of the United Provinces of…
Joseph R. StrombergApril 14, 2014
Early in the winter of 1863 Francis Pierpont, the Governor of the Restored Government of…
Marshall DeRosaApril 12, 2014
On April 24, 1863—-just three months after the cruel and retaliatory Emancipation Proclamation--Lincoln issued an…
Kirkpatrick SaleApril 8, 2014
Russell Kirk called the early post-bellum period in American history the age of “Conservatism Frustrated.”…
Brion McClanahanApril 3, 2014
This two part lecture by Abbeville Institute founder Don Livingston concentrates on the dichotomy between…
Donald LivingstonApril 3, 2014
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