Blog Randolph Shotwell in War and Prison We live in a regime with an industrial output of lies about Southern history, so…Clyde WilsonJune 17, 2022
Blog Recommended Books about the South and Its History A friend recently asked me for a list of good books about the South and…Boyd CatheyMay 31, 2022
Blog In the Saddle with Stonewall The best of the many Confederate memoirs, in my opinion, are those of General Richard…Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2022
BlogReview Posts Arm in Arm A review of Arm in Arm (Mercer, 2022) by Catharine Savage Brosman Our conscious civilisation…Clyde WilsonMay 6, 2022
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XX William Gilmore Simms, Part 2 The Green Corn Dance Come hither, hither, old and young--the…Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2022
Blog A Dangerous Rock Rolling Down Hill Part 6 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…Clyde WilsonApril 11, 2022
Blog Emancipation After the War Part 5 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…Clyde WilsonApril 5, 2022
Blog Emancipation Part 4 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2022
Blog A War to Free the Slaves? Part 3 in Clyde Wilson's series "African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective." Read Part 1 and…Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2022
Blog Lifetime Bondage Part 2 in Clyde Wilson's series, African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective. Part 1 can…Clyde WilsonMarch 15, 2022
Blog African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective Our culture’s indifference to the past---which easily shades over into hostility and rejection---furnishes the most…Clyde WilsonMarch 10, 2022
Blog Two Southern Heroes The Adventures and Recollections of General Walter P. Lane, A San Jacinto Veteran (1887) John…Clyde WilsonFebruary 22, 2022
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XIX A Series by Clyde Wilson. WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806-1870) of South Carolina, amazingly prolific novelist,…Clyde WilsonFebruary 10, 2022
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XVIII A series by Clyde Wilson HENRY ROOTES JACKSON (1820—1898) of Georgia was a lawyer, judge…Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2022
Blog The Achievements of M.E. Bradford By Forrest McDonald and Clyde Wilson. These essays were originally published in the Fall 1982…Abbeville InstituteFebruary 3, 2022
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XVII A series by Clyde Wilson Thomas Holley Chivers (1809—1858) of Georgia was a physician and…Clyde WilsonJanuary 28, 2022
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XVI A series by Clyde Wilson. LOUISA SUSANNAH CHEVES McCORD (1810—1879) of South Carolina was one…Clyde WilsonJanuary 21, 2022
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XV A series by Clyde Wilson Alexander Beaufort Meek, Part 2 The Rose of Alabama I…Clyde WilsonJanuary 14, 2022
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XIV A series by Clyde Wilson ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK (1814-1865) of Alabama. Meek was one of…Clyde WilsonJanuary 7, 2022
Blog Thomas Moore, RIP In August, Thomas Moore, novelist and founding Chairman of the Southern National Congress, passed away…Clyde WilsonNovember 1, 2021
Blog Rebirthing Lincoln A review of Rebirthing Lincoln, A Biography (Southern Books, 2021) by Howard Ray White I…Clyde WilsonJune 15, 2021
Blog Daybreak in Dixie Daybreak in Dixie: Poems of the Confederacy by Linda Lee. Privately published, 2019. For those…Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2021
Blog Beginning with History Any fool can write history, and many do. Please do not assume that I mean…Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2021
Blog Don’t Watch This Film “The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes. 2020. I have written…Clyde WilsonFebruary 26, 2021
Blog Followin’ the Cotton (Mrs. Holley was the third generation of a Southern family in California. She wrote this…Ruth Ann HolleyFebruary 2, 2021
Blog Whatever Happened to History? According to a recent poll, 72 per cent of Americans think that we are now…Clyde WilsonJanuary 18, 2021
Blog The South Was Right! (Again) The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. New Edition for the…Clyde WilsonNovember 24, 2020
Blog The Grand Alliance, a.k.a. The Deep State The pattern for modern American politics was set by Lincoln and his cronies in the…Clyde WilsonNovember 16, 2020
Blog We’ll Take Our Stand It is not often enough, but I do set aside blocks of time to express…Joshua DoggrellNovember 12, 2020
Review Posts New Confederate Territory A review of Cleburne: A Graphic Novel (Rampart Press, 2008) by Justin S. Murphy and…Clyde WilsonAugust 25, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XIII A series by Clyde Wilson MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR (1798-1859) of Texas moved from his native…Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XII A Series by Clyde Wilson THEODORE O'HARA (1820-1867) of Kentucky. "The Bivouac of the Dead"…Clyde WilsonAugust 6, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part XI A Series by Clyde Wilson EDGAR ALLAN POE, Part 2 Sonnet – To Science Science!…Clyde WilsonJuly 30, 2020
Blog The Real Legends and Lies of the “Civil War” I caught a snatch of news the other day that, even with all that is…Clyde WilsonJuly 16, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part X A series by Clyde Wilson EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809--1849) of Virginia was the great creative…Clyde WilsonJuly 2, 2020
Blog An Interview with Clyde Wilson, Part III “Southerners who still value their heritage but don’t know what to do about it in…Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part IX A series by Clyde Wilson EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY (1802-1828) of Maryland was born and partly…Clyde WilsonJune 11, 2020
Blog An Interview with Clyde Wilson, Part II I hope you all enjoyed Part 1 of my interview with Dr. Clyde Wilson. In…Dissident MamaJune 8, 2020
Blog An Interview with Clyde Wilson, Part I I first met Dr. Clyde Wilson in February 2018 at an Abbeville Institute conference in…Dissident MamaJune 1, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part VIII A series by Clyde Wilson RICHARD HENRY WILDE (1789--1847) of Georgia gave up a successful…Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part VII A series by Clyde Wilson WASHINGTON ALLSTON (1779--1843) of South Carolina was one of the…Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part VI A series by Clyde Wilson FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (1779-1843) of Maryland. The story is well…Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part V A series by Clyde Wilson Homage to Revolutionary Heroes DOLLEY PAYNE MADISON (1768—1849) was the…Clyde WilsonMay 7, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part IV A Series by Clyde Wilson UNKNOWN WRITER, 1781 The Battle of King’s Mountain 'T was…Clyde WilsonApril 30, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part III EBENEZER COOKE (fl. ca. l 680s--1730s?) of Maryland is a major figure in Colonial American…Clyde WilsonApril 23, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part II JOHN COTTON (fl. 1660s – 1720s) was an early settler of Virginia, never to be…Clyde WilsonApril 16, 2020
Blog Southern Poets and Poems, Part I A Series By Clyde Wilson If the South would’ve won, we’d’ve had it made." --Hank…Clyde WilsonApril 9, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part XV 21. Faulkner in Film Southern viewers must naturally be interested in what Hollywood has done…Clyde WilsonMarch 26, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part XIV 19. Our Speech The experts will tell you that there is more than one Southern…Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part XIII 18. World War II and Other Wars “To deliver examples to posterity, and to regulate…Clyde WilsonMarch 12, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part XII 16. EXECRABLES. The Worst Movies about the South: A Small Selection The competition here is…Clyde WilsonMarch 5, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide Part XI 15. Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Southerners: Films for the Family The major movie stars of…Clyde WilsonFebruary 27, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part X 12. Southerners in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries **The Yearling (1946). This is…Clyde WilsonFebruary 20, 2020
Review Posts How to Study History A review of How to Study History When Seeking Truthfulness and Understanding: Lessons Learned from Outside…Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part IX 11. Post-bellum and Westerns There are two interesting, important, and little noticed features of films…Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part VIII 10. Spielberg’s Lincoln (X) Spielberg’s Lincoln. Life is short. Although I am a devoted if…Clyde WilsonFebruary 7, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part VII 9. Confederate Hollywood From the beginnings to rather recent times portrayals of Confederates have been…Clyde WilsonJanuary 30, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part VI 8. The War for Southern Independence (continued): Fantasy and Fraud Scorcese’s Gangs of New York…Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part V Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part IV Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…Clyde WilsonJanuary 9, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part III 5. Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) If Amistad is not yet a household word like ET or…Clyde WilsonDecember 19, 2019
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part II Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…Clyde WilsonDecember 12, 2019
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part I A man only has room for one oath at a time. I took an oath…Clyde WilsonDecember 5, 2019
Blog Whatever Happened to Democracy? Those of us whose experience goes back a way into the last century, can remember…Clyde WilsonOctober 7, 2019
Blog Guelzo Uncovered I recently read a report of a professor who declared that he had come sadly…Clyde WilsonSeptember 23, 2019
Review Posts The C.S.A. A review of The C.S.A. Trilogy (Independent, 2018) by Howard Ray White. A beautiful thought…Clyde WilsonAugust 27, 2019
Review Posts Punished with Poverty A review of Punished with Poverty: The Suffering South-Prosperity to Poverty & the Continuing Struggle…Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2019
Review Posts Jeffersonians Against Imperialism J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, 1966 and The Price of Empire, 1967 Robert…Clyde WilsonJuly 30, 2019
Review Posts Loosiana Poets A review of Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide, (U. Press of Mississippi, 2019) by Catharine…Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2019
Review Posts Adventures in the Southwest A Review of Doniphan’s Expedition, Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico .…Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2019
Review Posts Remembering Mel Bradford A review of A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and His Achievements (Missouri, 1999)…J.O. TateMay 6, 2019
Review Posts Historical Consciousness A Review of Historical Consciousness, or The Remembered Past (Schocken Books, 1985) by John Lukacs In…Clyde WilsonFebruary 12, 2019
Blog John C. Calhoun’s Foreign Policy: “A Wise and Masterly Inactivity” The dominant powers in American discourse today have succeeded in confining the South to a…Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2019
Blog Trump Agonistes The presidential election of 2016 gave promise to be a watershed in American politics. Donald…Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2019
Review Posts Cracks in the Treasury of Virtue A review of Division and Reunion: America, 1848-1877, by Ludwell H. Johnson, New York: John…Clyde WilsonMay 29, 2018
Blog Texas Vs. The Pacific Coast: Explaining The Yankee Mindset I recently traveled to Texas to speak about South Africa, at the Free Speech Forum…Ilana MercerMay 21, 2018
Blog On Remaining Humble in Modern Academia After reading Richard Weaver’s monumental work Ideas Have Consequences last semester I was struck with…Jonathan HarrisMay 18, 2018
Blog When Historians Lie Eminent historian Dr. Clyde Wilson in one of his many books on American history expresses…Jonathan HarrisApril 11, 2018
Blog Look Away A bit of free verse to address our current situation, which is probably not as…Clyde WilsonDecember 15, 2017
Blog Is the South Celtic? There is a popular theme embraced by many that the uniqueness of Southern culture is…Clyde WilsonNovember 13, 2017
Blog Hollywood Before the “Hate Confederate” Movement From the beginnings to rather recent times, sympathetic portrayals of Confederates have been a mainstay…Clyde WilsonSeptember 27, 2017
Review Posts How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America A review of How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan, Regnery History, 2017.…Clyde WilsonSeptember 19, 2017
Blog American Presidents, Slavery, and the Confederacy The current pogrom against Southern history and symbols ignores the influence the South and the…Clyde WilsonAugust 30, 2017
Review Posts Nullification A review of Nullification: Reclaiming the Consent of the Governed by Clyde Wilson, Shotwell Press,…Christopher McDonaldAugust 22, 2017
Blog The New Guns of Honor? Most of the world knows of the Hollywood Celebrity “Martin Sheen,” (born and baptized Ramon…Clyde WilsonAugust 14, 2017
Review Posts The Yankee Problem in American History A review of Clyde Wilson, The Yankee Problem: An American Dilemma (Shotwell Press, 2016). The…Charles SteinerAugust 1, 2017
Blog You Are Deplorable Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. You are deplorable. It is worse than…Clyde WilsonJuly 24, 2017
Blog A Rebel Born Foreword for A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General, American Legend,…Clyde WilsonJuly 13, 2017
Blog The War Between the States: Who were the Nazis? Anyone who has been paying attention has heard many times the assertion that the flag…Clyde WilsonJune 14, 2017
Review Posts Music from the Lake A review of Music from the Lake and Other Essays by Catharine Savage Brosman (Chronicles…Clyde WilsonJune 7, 2017
Blog “Contextualizing” History Statement about the “slavery the sole cause of the war” plaque affixed to the Confederate…Clyde WilsonMay 31, 2017
Review Posts A Better Guide Than Reason A Review of M.E. Bradford, A Better Guide Than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution.…Clyde WilsonMay 17, 2017
Blog High Tech Hunley As the slow process of excavating the marvel continues, more and more revelations are coming…Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2017
Review Posts The Imperial Penman A Review of The Imperial Presidency, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,…Clyde WilsonApril 26, 2017
Blog The Mind of the Old South A review of All Clever Men, Who Make Their Own Way: Critical Discourse in the…Clyde WilsonApril 19, 2017
Blog Jefferson New and Improved I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. — THOMAS JEFFERSON…Clyde WilsonApril 12, 2017
Blog Southern Heritage Then and Now Order of the Southern Cross Banquet, Sons of Confederate Veterans National Reunion, Asheville, North Carolina,…Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2017
Blog Coit’s Calhoun Want to learn about one of the greatest statesmen that the United States has ever…Clyde WilsonMarch 17, 2017
Blog Films from the South Like it or not, movies are the main art form of our time, the story-telling…Clyde WilsonMarch 6, 2017
Blog New England Against America The Fiction of Mr. Simms gave indication, we repeat, of genius, and that of no…Clyde WilsonMarch 2, 2017
Review Posts The American President: From Cincinnatus to Caesar The great body of the nation has no real interest in party. — James Fenimore…Clyde WilsonFebruary 23, 2017
Blog Explaining Trump to the Brits Of the four Christmas cards I received from the UK this past December, three of…Joscelyn DunlopFebruary 21, 2017
Blog Union or Else In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer that the “false…Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2017
Blog The Continuing Relevance of Calhoun’s Wisdom I am always glad to talk about my favourite subject–-John C. Calhoun. I think it…Clyde WilsonFebruary 8, 2017
Blog Calexit: California, Adios! It seems that out in California an impressively large number of people are petitioning for…Clyde WilsonJanuary 30, 2017
Blog A Bow to the Ladies A review of Understanding Mary Lee Settle, by George Garrett, Columbia: University of South Carolina…Clyde WilsonJanuary 25, 2017
Blog Recovering Southern History Every historian has a viewpoint, shaped by his own background, values, and perception of the…Clyde WilsonJanuary 18, 2017
Blog Differences How much better off the American people would be if they could learn the difference…Clyde WilsonJanuary 11, 2017
Blog Tar Heel’s Revenge An article by a Canadian historian in a recent issue of the North Carolina…Clyde WilsonJanuary 4, 2017
Blog American Culture: Virginia or Massachusetts? Dr. Clyde Wilson on "American Culture: Virginia or Massachusetts?" at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer…Clyde WilsonDecember 28, 2016
Blog I Am So Old I Can Remember When…. —there was no television; and then when there was one station on two hours a…Clyde WilsonDecember 20, 2016
Blog Harvard Confederates A review of Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men Who Fought for the South, By Helen P.…Clyde WilsonDecember 14, 2016
Blog Liberal and Conservative The terms “liberal” and “conservative” were usable signs in a society in which the state…Clyde WilsonDecember 8, 2016
Blog More of the Way We Are Now Show me a nasty feminist and I will show you a little girl with a…Clyde WilsonNovember 30, 2016
Review Posts Up at the Forks of the Creek: In Search of American Populism Editor's note: With the rise of "populism" around the world, we should revisit the history…Clyde WilsonNovember 16, 2016
Blog Sherman’s March The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…Clyde WilsonNovember 9, 2016
Blog Jacobin Yankees Martin Scorcese, in an interview, candidly described his new film, "Gangs of New York," as…Clyde WilsonNovember 2, 2016
Blog Lincoln Follies A few of us now decrepit pre-Reagan “conservatives” can remember the brief flicker of hope…Clyde WilsonOctober 26, 2016
Blog Goodbye, George An American president can wreck his country and blow up the world, but he cannot…Clyde WilsonOctober 19, 2016
Blog Review: Reinventing the South: Versions of a Literary Region, by Mark Royden Winchell Chronicle’s most distinguished contributing editor, can be relied upon, always, to tell it like it…Clyde WilsonOctober 12, 2016
Blog If This Be Treason…. The polls show that 33 per cent of the public still gives Dubya Bush a…Clyde WilsonOctober 4, 2016
Blog Allegiances William Faulkner of Mississippi was the greatest writer produced by the United States in the…Clyde WilsonSeptember 28, 2016
Review Posts John C. Calhoun: Anti-Imperialist The mission of the Abbeville Institute, to redeem what is worthwhile in the Southern tradition,…Clyde WilsonSeptember 22, 2016
Review Posts Rethinking the War for the 21st Century (13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
Blog Call Me Simple with Strange Words for Strange Days Call me simple... But I don’t understand: Why the government spends billions on welfare but…Clyde WilsonSeptember 7, 2016
Blog More Deja Vu, circa the George W. Bush Years Twenty-three Republican Senators joined a large majority of Democrats to vote for the Bush bill…Clyde WilsonAugust 31, 2016
Blog Filmlog: Three for the Resistance World War II has provided a vast amount of material for cinema in Europe, America,…Clyde WilsonAugust 24, 2016
Blog Your Future as a Terrorist The Homeland Security apparatus has garnered quite a bit of attention lately for a paper…Clyde WilsonAugust 17, 2016
Review Posts A Southern Political Economy vs. American State Capitalism General Lee was a soldier and leader of men, not a politician. Although several of…Clyde WilsonAugust 10, 2016
Review Posts American Culture: Massachusetts or Virginia Delivered at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. A Frenchman has observed that the qualities…Clyde WilsonAugust 3, 2016
Blog Shakespeare and the Earl of Oxford Perceptive and insightful people have known through the centuries that William Shakespeare could not possibly…Clyde WilsonJuly 27, 2016
Blog Culture War Transcend yourself and join in the universal struggle to bring about the self-transcendence of all…Clyde WilsonJuly 14, 2016
Blog American Counter-Revolution A Review of The American Counter Revolution: A Retreat From Liberty, 1783-1800, by Larry E.…Clyde WilsonJuly 4, 2016
Blog Q&A on Nullification and Interposition Q: What can I read that can give me a serious overview of the true…Clyde WilsonJune 29, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXXVI In fact, capitalists have no objection to federal meddling. They just want it to be…Clyde WilsonJune 22, 2016
Blog Why They Hate Jefferson A Review of The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800, by Conor…Clyde WilsonJune 15, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXXV These Haters seem to want to destroy anything and anyone they can tie to slavery.…Clyde WilsonJune 8, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXXIV A pioneer creates a new country from foresight, courage, and hard work. An immigrant takes…Clyde WilsonJune 1, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXXIII I am not a Catholic, but I just have to admire all of this Pope’s…Clyde WilsonMay 25, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXXII I believe that the American South, the last bastion of Christianity in the West, will…Clyde WilsonMay 18, 2016
Blog The Imperial and Momentary We This piece was originally published in Chronicles Magazine, October 2012. “O Fame, O Fame! Many…Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2016
Blog Shades of John Brown Southerners who honour their Confederate forebears have often been admonished: “Get over it. You lost!” …Clyde WilsonMay 4, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXXI Moving from arrogance to masochism, Europeans have endeavoured to chase away their old feelings of…Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2016
Blog New From Southern Pens, Part 4 A new contribution to Southern literature from one or both of the Kennedy brothers, authors…Clyde WilsonApril 20, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXX The Western intellectual knows, or rather thinks he knows, what others do not. He rarely…Clyde WilsonApril 6, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXIX In a PC world, humor is a capital offense. --Taki Happiness is never an accident. …Clyde WilsonMarch 30, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXVIII Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist logrolling. --John…Clyde WilsonMarch 23, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Calhoun’s Carolina John C. Culhoon. Culhoon is the right pronunciation by the way. John C. Culhoon was…Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXVII “My name’s Anderson. They call me Bloody Bill. Going to Kansas to kill Red Legs.…Clyde WilsonMarch 16, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Why The War Was Not About Slavery Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about”…Clyde WilsonMarch 9, 2016
Blog What is PC? This talk was delivered on Friday, February 26, 2016 at the Abbeville Institute Conference "The…Clyde WilsonMarch 2, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXVI A friend’s encounter with a clergyman: His mission, he says, is Social Justice. Our South…Clyde WilsonFebruary 24, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Dilorenzo and His Critics Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln has provoked the utterly predictable torrent of abuse from…Clyde WilsonFebruary 17, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXV The death of the spirit is the price of progress. --Eric Voegelin The Athenians know what…Clyde WilsonFebruary 10, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library The Way We Are Now I promised to keep you updated on our government’s radio ads. In the latest, the…Clyde WilsonFebruary 3, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library It’s True What They Say About Dixie Throughout most of American history region has been a better predictor of political position than…Clyde WilsonJanuary 27, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Robert E. Lee and the American Union "And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice….."…Clyde WilsonJanuary 20, 2016
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXIV Totalitarianism, defined as the existential rule of Gnostic activists, is the end form of progressive…Clyde WilsonJanuary 13, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Black Confederates? A review of Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan,…Clyde WilsonJanuary 6, 2016
Blog 2015 in Review Sean Hannity begins his nationally syndicated radio talk show by welcoming listeners to “the revolution.” …Brion McClanahanJanuary 1, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Introduction to James Pettigrew’s Notes on Spain Introduction This is James Johnston Pettigrew’s only book, privately printed in Charleston in the first…Clyde WilsonDecember 30, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXIII The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with an average voter -- Winston…Clyde WilsonDecember 23, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Jeffersonian Democrat Rediscovered A Review of A Plague on Both Your Houses, by Robert W. Whitaker. New York:…Clyde WilsonDecember 16, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Virginia Roots of American Values "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians." — Barnard Elliott…Clyde WilsonDecember 9, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Can the Republic Be Restored: Presidency The American President began as Cincinnatus, a patriot called to the temporary service of his…Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2015
Review Posts The Same Old Stand? This essay was published in Why the South Will Survive: Fifteen Southerners Look at Their…John Shelton ReedDecember 1, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXII The further a society strays from the truth, the more it hates people who tell…Clyde WilsonNovember 25, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Scholars’ Statement in Support of the Confederate Flag (2000) Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXI The main problem with America today is the increasing scarcity of Americans. --Clyde Wilson The…Clyde WilsonNovember 13, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Thomas Jefferson, Southern Man of Letters, Part II Several generations after his lifetime Jefferson became best known, as he still is, of course,…Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Thomas Jefferson, Southern Man of Letters, Part I There was a popular ragtime song in the 1940s and ‘50s, derived from an old…Clyde WilsonNovember 4, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XX To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he…Clyde WilsonOctober 28, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Chronicles of the South Introduction to Chronicles of the South: In Justice to So Fine a Country “The South”…Clyde WilsonOctober 21, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Prosperity Declining prosperity is now a settled fact of American life. Prosperity is not measured by…Clyde WilsonOctober 14, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XIX A man has only got room for one oath at a time. I gave mine…Clyde WilsonOctober 7, 2015
Blog The War to Prevent Southern Independence and Other New Tomes Thanks for the “Amateurs” “Amateur” has come to mean “inferior” to most people today. But…Clyde WilsonSeptember 30, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XVIII Wherever you bluebellies go you cause trouble. . . . Yankees always lie. --Clint Eastwood,…Clyde WilsonSeptember 23, 2015
Blog Life In The Old Land Yet There is life in the old land of Dixie yet. There seems to be no…Clyde WilsonSeptember 16, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Getaway: A Review of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin M. Kruse A friend who sells high-end real estate tells the story of a well-heeled Northern couple…Clyde WilsonSeptember 9, 2015
Review Posts The War for Southern Independence: My Myth or Yours? In the antebellum era, Matthew Carey, Philadelphia publisher and journalist, was the most zealous and…Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Bailing the Capitalists: Our Southern Fathers Told Us What to Expect “. . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves.” —Thomas Jefferson “They…Clyde WilsonAugust 26, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library A Sacrifice for His People: The Imprisonment of Jefferson Davis In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XVII It has been justly stated by a British writer that the power to make a…Clyde WilsonAugust 12, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XVI Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals can believe them. --Orwell I believe you…Clyde WilsonAugust 5, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library A Jeffersonian Political Economy Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2015
Blog Our Noble Banner The Confederate battle flag is protean. It is a powerful symbol that has entered the…Clyde WilsonJuly 20, 2015
Blog Questions for Hollywood? Inquiring Minds Want to Know. Why in the recent “The Factory” does a serial killer from Buffalo, New York, have…Clyde WilsonJuly 13, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library What This Country Needs In one of Henry James’s less unreadable novels, The Bostonians, the hero is Basil Ransom,…Clyde WilsonJuly 8, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Grand Old (Stupid) Party The awful Obama is pushing terrible things on our country like socialised medicine, big spending,…Clyde WilsonJuly 1, 2015
Blog New From Southern Pens 3 The Report from Dogwood Mudhole Franklin Sanders is a well-known Southern leader and spokesman. In…Clyde WilsonJune 25, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library America’s Red-Headed Stepchild This piece was originally published on 3 July 2014 and is reprinted in light of…Clyde WilsonJune 24, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Goodbye to Gold and Glory “The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library St. George Tucker St. George Tucker's "View of the Constitution of the United States" was the first…Clyde WilsonJune 8, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Confederate Connections A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth,…Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Antebellum Southerners in Europe I want to look at Southerners going back to Europe long after the roots were…Clyde WilsonMay 20, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The South and the West, Part 2 It seems my mission here is to bring to your attention unfamiliar and unfashionable truths…Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2015
Blog New From Southern Pens, Part 2 Maryland Redeemed Everybody knows that our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was written by Francis…Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The South and the West, Part 1 When our ever-wise leader set up a program on the American West, he obviously had…Clyde WilsonMay 6, 2015
Blog April Top 10 The top ten for April 2015. Thank you for a great one year anniversary for…Brion McClanahanMay 2, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Should the South Survive? This essay served as the introduction to Why the South Will Survive(University of Georgia Press,…Clyde WilsonApril 29, 2015
Blog The Ides of March 2015 Abbeville scholar Clyde Wilson recently received this charming from Ms. Joscelyn Dunlop of Edenton, North…Clyde WilsonApril 24, 2015
Blog New From Southern Pens Karen Stokes’s Reconstruction Novel Awhile back it was theorised by some that Southern literature’s era…Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Thomas Jefferson, Conservative In 1809 Thomas Jefferson yielded up the Presidency and crossed into Virginia. In the 17…Clyde WilsonApril 15, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library What to Say About Dixie? What to say in brief compass about the South?—a subject that is worthy of the…Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XV They call it progress, but they don’t say where it is going. --Faulkner Nothing occurs…Clyde WilsonApril 3, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library A Southern Tradition: Restraining Bad Government In talking about the Southern political tradition, it is most appropriate to point to the…Clyde WilsonApril 1, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Hanging with the Snarks: An Academic Memoir There seemed to be little interest among audience members in whether the ideas I had…Clyde WilsonMarch 25, 2015
Blog Calhoun on American Government, Politics, and War "When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game; that those who…Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library “A Senator of Rome when Rome Survived.” This selection was originally printed in Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson, Forgotten Conservatives in American…Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2015
Blog John C. Calhoun: A Statesman for the 21st Century Your ordinary run-of-the mill historian will tell you that John C. Calhoun, having defended the…Clyde WilsonMarch 16, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Scratching Fleas: American Historians and Their History There is no group I would rather receive recognition from than the John Randolph Club.…Clyde WilsonMarch 11, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Treasury of Counterfeit Virtue “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!”…Clyde WilsonMarch 4, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XIV I have seen enough of publick men to come to the conclusion, that there are…Clyde WilsonFebruary 25, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Sherman’s March The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2015
Blog It Could Have Been Worse, Probably Review of the new film Field of Lost Shoes: I have written before here and…Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The War Lover The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized…Clyde WilsonFebruary 11, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library M. E. Bradford, The Agrarian Aquinas I have called M.E. Bradford the Agrarian Aquinas. He did not write a Summa, but…Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Origins of the Educational Nightmare John Chodes, Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-Education of the Old South. New…Clyde WilsonJanuary 29, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Confederate Flag Day I am honoured to be back in my native State (North Carolina) where the weak…Clyde WilsonJanuary 19, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XIII South Carolina will preserve its sovereignty, or be buried beneath its ruins. --Governor Robert Y.…Clyde WilsonJanuary 8, 2015
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XII Experience has taught me, that in politicks, it is much more easy to gain the…Clyde WilsonDecember 31, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Cincinnatus, Call the Office! “. . . a republican government, which many great writers assert to be incapable of…Clyde WilsonDecember 31, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XI It has been a rule with me, from which I have rarely departed, to pass…Clyde WilsonDecember 26, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Nathaniel Macon and North Carolina Independence Although I have been in exile many years, I am a Tar Heel born and…Clyde WilsonDecember 17, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part X What are people for? --Wendell Berry I do not view politicks as a scramble…Clyde WilsonDecember 16, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library “Southwestern Humour Writers” and the Origins of American Literature If we want to understand the origins and nature of Southern culture we must consider…Clyde WilsonDecember 11, 2014
Blog The True Fire Within A review of Henry Timrod: A Biography by Walter Brian Cisco, Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh…Clyde WilsonDecember 9, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Literature in the Old South In an ideal world the separate studies of history and literature would enlighten one another.…Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part IX It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty.…Clyde WilsonDecember 1, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part VIII It is the very genius of a consolidated Government to elevate one portion of the…Clyde WilsonNovember 21, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library The Republican Charade: Lincoln and His Party "To parties of special interests, all political questions appear exclusively as problems of political tactics."…Clyde WilsonNovember 19, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Nolan’s Myth of the “Lost Cause” "Your enemy is not a criminal just because he is your enemy." —Saying credited to…Clyde WilsonNovember 17, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Tiger’s Meat: William Gilmore Simms and the History of the Revolution In the early days of the United States, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton remarked: "The safety…Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2014
Review Posts Twenty Million Gone: The Southern Diaspora, 1900—1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yKesnaFYUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkcQ09h2Vo That is Bobby Bare on Detroit and Dwight Yoakam on Los Angeles. Sometimes…Clyde WilsonNovember 10, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part VII The Constitutional power of the President never was or could be formidable, unless it was…Clyde WilsonNovember 5, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Reconstruction: Violence and Dislocation The final part in this installment is a lecture entitled, "Reconstruction in the Experience of…Clyde WilsonOctober 30, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners Part VI When did the South ever lay its hand on the North? --Calhoun The body of…Clyde WilsonOctober 28, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners Part V I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part IV A good dog needs no pedigree, and if a dog ain’t any good, a pedigree…Clyde WilsonOctober 10, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part III Reality is what continues to exist whether you believe in it or not. --Philip K.…Clyde WilsonOctober 6, 2014
Blog The (Modern) American Citizenship Exam These 40 questions have been carefully designed to test your qualifications as a citizen. The…Clyde WilsonOctober 3, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Small Is Beautiful When I first heard of the topic "Small is Beautiful," I thought of the wonderful…Clyde WilsonOctober 2, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Please Tread On Me “Sic Semper Tyrannis.” — from the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia “I want…Clyde WilsonOctober 1, 2014
Blog Citizen Faulkner: “What We Did, In Those Old Days” In honor of William Faulkner's birthday (Sept 25), Clyde Wilson discusses Faulkner as a conservative.…Clyde WilsonSeptember 25, 2014
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