When the assault on Southern heritage with the destruction of monuments, symbols and heroes began,…
Valerie ProtopapasJune 30, 2022
On June 24, 2022, Mr. William J. Martin, Director of the Valentine Museum in Richmond,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 27, 2022
In March of 1928, W.E.B. DuBois published a short essay attacking the character of Robert…
Michael MartinJune 2, 2022
Mako Honda recently told the Washington Post that she and her husband Ryan Finley live…
Casey ChalkMay 30, 2022
I. The Fall of Richmond In 1930, that caustic fellow H.L. Mencken wrote that if…
Joseph R. StrombergFebruary 16, 2022
As in the practice of lingchi, the ancient Chinese form of slow and painful execution…
John MarquardtNovember 16, 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
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as…
Enoch CadeJuly 12, 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 solution offered by Mr Vivek Ramaswamy to the destructive ideology of the Woke Social…
Walt GarlingtonJuly 2, 2021
Facebook canceled the Abbeville Institute. I was notified on June 10 that the Abbeville Institute…
Brion McClanahanJune 28, 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
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
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
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
The City Council of Lexington, Virginia has renamed the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. The new name…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 11, 2020
These violent times in which we live are in some ways unparalleled. For Southerners we…
Boyd CatheySeptember 10, 2020
A review of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (University of California Press, 2014) by Nadine…
Joshua DoggrellSeptember 8, 2020
Kwanzaa is an invented tradition. Billed as a kind of “black Christmas”—you can even buy…
Jason MorganSeptember 7, 2020
A frequent argument against Confederate monuments is a “sound bite” of a quote from General…
Ernest BlevinsSeptember 2, 2020
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.August 27, 2020
Photo by Martin Fried I have written previously about the very real dangers of what…
Boyd CatheyAugust 24, 2020
Identity Politics is changing our language in order to advance its agenda. One example is…
Philip LeighAugust 21, 2020
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