In a recent column for the Associated Press, entitled “Old South monument backers embrace Confederate…
Carl JonesJune 26, 2017
I spent some time perusing my son's sixth grade history book. I didn't read it…
Carl JonesOctober 8, 2015
Any sensible, reasonable person is deeply saddened by the atrocious and tragic murder of nine…
Carl JonesJuly 10, 2015
The top ten for April 2015. Thank you for a great one year anniversary for…
Brion McClanahanMay 2, 2015
A so-called "writer" for al.com, Charles J. Dean, in an article entitled Today Alabama officially…
Carl JonesApril 30, 2015
Southern contributions to American music are so abundant that they can be considered as the…
Carl JonesMarch 24, 2015
Some months back, my buddy Tom Daniel wrote a piece titled "What Every Southern Man…
Carl JonesFebruary 27, 2015
Delivered at the Blount County Courthouse, January 19, 2015. Robert E. Lee said “Everyone…
Carl JonesJanuary 21, 2015
M.E. Bradford said of Southern Conservatism that: “This conservatism is both historic and principled in…
Carl JonesDecember 12, 2014
The fiercely contested, yet inconclusive election of 1824 set the stage for one of the…
H. Lee Cheek, Jr.December 5, 2014
Today, November 13, is the birthday of one of the Troubadours of Southern Rock, Toy…
Carl JonesNovember 13, 2014
It is a strange fact of modern American culture that when looking at famous people…
Carl JonesOctober 6, 2014
For centuries the Scottish Highlanders, existing under a clan system, were apt to “revolt” against…
Carl JonesAugust 20, 2014
On July 2, 1776 the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from the English Crown.…
Carl JonesJuly 4, 2014
Too often a narrative is passed from one person to the next until it becomes…
Carl JonesJune 23, 2014
When the Celtic people of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern England began coming in large…
Carl JonesJune 16, 2014
Random observations from reading David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed (which I've not yet finished)- Ain't,…
Carl JonesMay 23, 2014
Random observations from reading David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed (which I've not yet finished)- Ain't,…
Carl JonesMay 23, 2014
At the annual reunion of the Alabama Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans I sat at…
Carl JonesMay 19, 2014
At the annual reunion of the Alabama Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans I sat at…
Carl JonesMay 19, 2014
One of the greatest examples of the Southern tradition is a love of the great…
Carl JonesMay 14, 2014
In my article from last week entitled “1865 and Modern Relevance” I asserted that the…
Carl JonesApril 28, 2014
In his book The Coming of the Glory (1949), author John S. Tillery relates that…
Carl JonesApril 21, 2014
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