Blog Honorable and Courageous Patriots Delivered at the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park for the Confederate Memorial Day remembrance held…Martin O'TooleMay 12, 2022
Blog A Suburb to Nothing I. The Fall of Richmond In 1930, that caustic fellow H.L. Mencken wrote that if…Joseph R. StrombergFebruary 16, 2022
Blog A Tale of Two Statues When Robert E. Lee died in 1870, a memorial association was formed in the City…Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 24, 2022
Blog The Lee Monument Time Capsule Governor Northam's henchmen have finally located the time capsule buried in the Memorial erected to…Cliff PageDecember 28, 2021
Blog Adding Monuments In a speech to the Georgia legislature in 1866, Former Vice President of the Confederacy…Donald LivingstonDecember 27, 2021
Blog American Monuments Editor's Note: Former Abbeville Institute summer school student Jon Harris and his Last Stand Studios…Abbeville InstituteNovember 8, 2021
Blog Who Are Confederate Monument Critics Really Targeting? The routine removal of Confederate statues signifies a new stage in the evolution of political…Philip LeighOctober 11, 2021
Blog Our Marxist Revolution Thomas Carlyle said that it takes men of worth to recognize worth in men (1).…H.V. Traywick, Jr.October 4, 2021
Blog “Shrines The Heart Hath Builded” My wife, Elizabeth, comes from a village called Greenwich in northern New York state. Among…Barton CockeySeptember 27, 2021
Blog Terrorists with Planes and Cranes A lot has happened in the last 20 years. Reflecting on the terrorist attack on…Lola SanchezSeptember 24, 2021
Blog Lee Memorial Ode This piece was originally published in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 1914. Replies…James Barron HopeSeptember 13, 2021
Blog The South’s Monument Man The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2-17) are the creed of both Christians…John MarquardtAugust 9, 2021
Blog Monuments Their carven words all testify Of then and now and future time That these were…James Everett KiblerJuly 23, 2021
Blog Responding to the Scalawags If timid and pacified Southerners needed more proof that we are a defeated and occupied…James Ronald KennedyJuly 20, 2021
Blog Monuments According to Pliny the Younger “To those who are ignorant of the jurisprudence of their country can have no taste…Justin PedersonJuly 16, 2021
Blog The Star that is Called Wormwood And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as…Enoch CadeJuly 12, 2021
Blog Grave Robbers Grave Robbers are the new norm in Southern city government.Sarah SassJune 18, 2021
Blog On “Good Uses” for the Confederate Flag One of my colleagues in the ministry of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS)…Rev. Larry BeaneJune 2, 2021
Blog The Statues Should Stay Up During the ongoing debate regarding the removal of the monuments honoring Confederate Generals, those in…Prioleau AlexanderMay 14, 2021
Blog Wokeism is Like Kudzu Wokeism is a bit like kudzu. It’s not indigenous to the South, but once it…Casey ChalkMay 6, 2021
Blog Twitter Historians Distort History, Again. Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the political left into an apoplectic rage two weeks ago when…Brion McClanahanApril 29, 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 Racism and Reputation Two terms that are tossed about with great liberality today are “racist” and “white supremacist.” …Rev. Larry BeaneMarch 1, 2021
Blog VMI Test Case for the Country In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute…Forrest L. MarionJanuary 7, 2021
Blog What 2020 Means for Southerners During the past couple of months, from shortly after the presidential election until now, seven…Boyd CatheyJanuary 4, 2021
Blog The Elephant in the Room There are very few human symbols that find absolute approval or, in the alternative, disapproval.…Valerie ProtopapasDecember 11, 2020
Blog 1619 Plus 2020 Equals 1984 In George Orwell’s novel “1984,” the central governmental agency in his fictitious country of Oceania…John MarquardtOctober 12, 2020
Blog Monument Avenue 1890-2020 For the majority of my life I have had an intense interest in the history…Patrick SeayOctober 5, 2020
Blog Sampson County and the Defense of Western Civilization Sampson County is a large, mostly rural county in southeastern North Carolina. Like most non-metropolitan…Boyd CatheySeptember 30, 2020
Blog The Real Reason for Confederate Monuments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08VtxFZlXKc&feature=youtu.bePhilip LeighSeptember 29, 2020
Blog A Land Without Heroes What if there were 15.3 million dead American soldiers? Imagine it. Legions of the unburied…Duncan KillenSeptember 15, 2020
Blog What Lee Said About Monuments in 1869 A frequent argument against Confederate monuments is a “sound bite” of a quote from General…Ernest BlevinsSeptember 2, 2020
Blog A Monument Worthy of a Hero Eight-tenths of a mile down a dead-end Arkansas gravel road, at that dead end, past…Travis ArchieAugust 28, 2020
Blog The Remnant, Part II Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us…All these were honoured…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 3, 2020
Blog Cancel Culture Will Decimate Us–If We Let It Often as I work at my computer I keep on the Sirius FM Classical Music…Boyd CatheyJuly 15, 2020
Blog Pietas in the Era of Revolution Pietas, the most Roman of virtues, referred to the duty owed to one’s country, parents,…John DevannyJuly 13, 2020
Blog Landscape The sun, a single red eye, burnt what was left of the earth, holding everything…Randall IveyJuly 10, 2020
Blog Can Liberty Survive the Marxist Purge? While mobs continue tearing down monuments and shaming elected officials into removing statues of historical…Stewart O. JonesJuly 9, 2020
Blog Waving the White Flag Won’t Save the UDC “Very late in the war, when defeat seemed inevitable, Northern generals were complaining that the…J.L. BennettJuly 1, 2020
Blog “Let the Rioters do their Worst; I won’t Stand in Their way!” Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina comes across as a nice man, well-mannered, calm, the…Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2020
Blog The Shame of Bentonville Bentonville is the lovely little town in Northwest Arkansas that I have spent nearly my…Neil KumarJune 22, 2020
Blog Virginia Liars, Locusts, and Native Sons Like locusts eating out the sustenance of farmers and agrarians, the once-proud land called Virginia…Paul H. YarbroughJune 17, 2020
Blog Old Virginia Weeps Last week Governor Ralph Northam announced his plan to remove the iconic statue of Robert…Paul GottfriedJune 12, 2020
Blog American Girondins Who should Americans blame for the iconoclasm on display during the "protests" in virtually every…Brion McClanahanJune 3, 2020
Blog The Egalitarian Myth and Secession Increasingly, I try to avoid news-binging, watching assiduously all the compiled, feculent bilge that passes…Boyd CatheyJune 2, 2020
Blog Confederate Memorials: Speaking to Posterity Should it be asked, why then build this monument? The answer is, they do not…Shane AndersonMay 25, 2020
Blog #TakeEmDown Comes to Yankeetown From Dylann Roof to Harvey Weinstein Many of us predicted it. The war on American…Lola SanchezMarch 27, 2020
Review Posts Individual Responsibility and Guilt A review of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farrar, Straus…David GordonMarch 24, 2020
Blog All the Fake News That’s Fit to Print As explained yesterday, Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy maligned my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech presented on Lee-Jackson Day in…Philip LeighMarch 16, 2020
Blog Statues in Peril Statues of heroes are erected to remind us of our past, of their noble deeds,…Brett MoffattFebruary 28, 2020
Blog To Guard the Precious Dust of the Martyred Dead Today there is a frenzied effort to tear down memorials to the Confederate dead. If…Shane AndersonFebruary 26, 2020
Blog The Washington Post Publishes Fake News On January 21st Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy wrote an article about my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech at the January18th…Philip LeighFebruary 10, 2020
Blog Silent Sam and Inconvenient History All across the Southland today efforts have been mounted by “woke” social justice warriors—in most…Boyd CatheyFebruary 3, 2020
Blog Is Nikki Haley Trying to Back Pedal on the Confederate Flag? Back in 2015 when Dylan Roof shot those black folks in their church in Charleston,…Al BensonDecember 18, 2019
Blog Battle for the Old Dominion With the recent triumph of the Democrat Party in the 2019 statewide elections in Virginia,…Brion McClanahanNovember 18, 2019
Blog The Stoning of Stone Mountain There are really only two basic opinions when it comes to the world’s largest carving…John MarquardtNovember 11, 2019
Blog The Real Reason for “Civil War” Monuments In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the “Whose Heritage?” report on the…Ernest BlevinsNovember 7, 2019
Blog To the Southern Soldiers Heartbroken, I have learned that my beloved Bentonville, Arkansas, has been attacked. The Confederate monument…Neil KumarOctober 24, 2019
Blog Don’t Remove Confederate Monuments This essay was presented at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on the New South.…Philip LeighAugust 30, 2019
Blog Contextualizing Southern Heritage A semantic technique that has worked well for political types is renaming things to make…Gail JarvisAugust 16, 2019
Blog Revisionism Does anyone remember United States Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.? I mean, for something other…Andrew P. CalhounAugust 12, 2019
Blog Confederate Monuments and Racism? As noted in earlier posts, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and many academic historians…Philip LeighJuly 26, 2019
Blog Civil War PC is Mental Imprisonment Each of us tends to be a prisoner of our own experience. In a World…Philip LeighJuly 4, 2019
Blog Carr Washing Silent Sam was a Confederate statue that stood on the University of North Carolina campus…Philip LeighJune 7, 2019
Blog What Did 19th Century Black Americans Think About Confederate Monuments? One argument used by those wanting to remove Confederate statues is that contemporary blacks had little…Philip LeighMay 31, 2019
Blog “An Epic Poem in Bronze.” On August 22, 2018, Forbes Magazine published an article written by Kristina Killgrove entitled "Scholars…Shane AndersonMay 22, 2019
Blog Are Confederate Memorials Preventing “Social Justice?” As a stalwart Southerner who came of age before the 1960s, its hard to believe…Gail JarvisMay 8, 2019
Blog The Leftist Long March, “Silent Sam,” and the REAL Question Most every Thursday I gather with a group of friends for lunch at some restaurant…Boyd CatheyApril 1, 2019
Blog The American Taliban You don’t see much on the continued attack and removal of war memorials in the…Lee CongletonMarch 29, 2019
Blog Silent Sam: A Personal Experience Editor's Note: During the height of the Silent Sam protests in the Summer of 2017,…Jonathan HarrisMarch 21, 2019
Blog Leave Confederate Statues Alone In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote: If the Civil War is more alive to…Philip LeighMarch 14, 2019
Blog Crazed Leftists Strike Again For thirty-one years the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has sponsored…Boyd CatheyMarch 11, 2019
Blog Rescuing Old Joe Whoever weds himself to the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in…Philip LeighMarch 7, 2019
Blog Confederaphobes Presented at the Lee-Jackson Banquet, Finley’s Brigade Camp 1614 - Tallahassee, Florida, 19 January 2019…Paul C. GrahamFebruary 6, 2019
Blog Orwell’s America In the ongoing war against Southern Confederate heritage, we need to be cognizant of the…Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 31, 2019
Blog A Cautionary Tale on Monument Protection Laws When Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo issued a ruling on the Alabama Memorial Preservation…Brion McClanahanJanuary 24, 2019
Blog Southern Conservatives The South is and always been conservative. But with the constant hammer of political correctness…Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 18, 2019
Blog To the Smithsonian… When one grows old one tends to resent wasting time and there is nothing that…Valerie ProtopapasJanuary 10, 2019
Blog What Are Symbols For? In 1875, Rev. Moses Drury Hoge stood before 40,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, at the…Brion McClanahanDecember 21, 2018
Blog Stone Mountain and the “Monument Man” When National Socialism came to power in Germany in 1933, it sought an ethnic and…Timothy A. DuskinNovember 5, 2018
Blog A Neoconservative Wakes Up Pro-Southern writers have long been suspicious of Victor Davis Hanson, given his association with the…Jerry SalyerOctober 31, 2018
Blog Reconstructing the New South “Nashville’s going to be a progressive, diverse city and there’s nothing that you can do…James Rutledge RoeschOctober 1, 2018
Blog History as a (Leftist) Weapon There is a tendency for each generation to assume its opinions are the ultimate correct…Gail JarvisAugust 30, 2018
Blog A Battle for Western Civilization and the South On Monday night, August 20, 2018, approximately 200 to 250 raucous demonstrators gathered in a…Boyd CatheyAugust 23, 2018
Blog Silent Sam and Me In September of 1961, I left my job at a basket factory in Wilmington, North…Ben JonesAugust 22, 2018
Blog Why the South Erected Confederate Statues The diagram below graphs the number of Confederate statues erected between 1870 and 1980. Since…Philip LeighJune 29, 2018
Blog Why Confederate Monuments Matter First of all, I wish to state that I teach history. I do not try…Samuel W. MitchamJune 21, 2018
Blog Southern Cultural Genocide The quote below indirectly warns about the implications of Confederate statue removals and the…Philip LeighJune 11, 2018
Blog Defending the Monuments After the Charleston shooting in 2015, all across the old Confederacy memorials, monuments, flags and…Boyd CatheyMay 30, 2018
Blog Confederate Monuments and Racism When New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu succeeded in removing three Confederate monuments, he said those…Thomas J. CraneMay 17, 2018
Blog Confederate Dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9z0zwThtw The Confederate Dead (1867) By Latienne From the broad and calm Potomac, To the…Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2018
Blog New Orleans Remains in Crisis After Historic Monuments Removed An international organization recently released a ranking of the 50 most dangerous cities in the…Gail JarvisApril 2, 2018
Blog The Pseudoscience Attack on the South The term “science” is applied rather loosely today. In some cases what we call science…Gail JarvisMarch 1, 2018
Blog Purging Graveyards for Progress Yes, give me a land with a grave in each spot And names in the…Christopher J. CarterFebruary 8, 2018
Blog Memphis and the Assault on Our Western Christian Inheritance The city fathers of Memphis have been engaged in police state tactics and patently illegal…Boyd CatheyJanuary 22, 2018
Blog The Elite vs. The Deplorables For most of our nation's two and a half century history, newspapers were the essential…Gail JarvisJanuary 15, 2018
Blog Monuments and Reconciliation With the election of Rutherford B. Hayes by a one vote margin in the Electoral…Cliff PageDecember 6, 2017
Blog A Black Advocate for Confederate Monuments Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article about eighty-eight year old Nelson Winbush who is a Florida black…Philip LeighOctober 23, 2017
Blog A People Without Honor Back in my days as a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, I…John DevannyOctober 13, 2017
Blog Why Were Confederate Monuments Built? In the wake of the current controversy over Confederate monuments, the Southern Poverty Law Center…Michael ArmstrongOctober 11, 2017
Blog The Marxist Campaign to Transform America The present feverish campaign to remove Confederate monuments and other symbols which offend certain loud…Boyd CatheyOctober 6, 2017
Blog Eliminating Dixie Means Eliminating America A few years ago Stephen Fry, English actor, writer, and comic, hosted a televised tour…Gail JarvisOctober 5, 2017
Blog The New War on the South’s Patrimony In the news late today, on a nice summery afternoon in early September, I saw…Alphonse-Louis VinhOctober 2, 2017
Blog A Monumental Folly The gentle wave of what had been termed “monumania” that rolled over the South and…John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2017
Blog AHA Revisionism On 28 August 2017, the American Historical Association (AHA) issued a “Statement on Confederate Monuments”…Brion McClanahanSeptember 6, 2017
Blog If You Think So, Say So This is the gravestone of my great-great-great grandfather, Benjamin Parks Middleton, located in the Bethel…Houston MiddletonSeptember 1, 2017
Blog “Furl That Banner” During the past few decades, there has been an ever-growing sentiment throughout the Unites Sates…John MarquardtAugust 24, 2017
Blog What Confederate Monument Critics May Not Know In 1958 a nearly forgotten thirty-four year old Texas author named William Humphrey debuted his…Philip LeighAugust 4, 2017
Blog We Long to be Free! An Address given on the Occasion of the Observance of Confederate Flag Day Raleigh, North…Paul C. GrahamAugust 2, 2017
Blog Leave the Monuments Alone: An Artistic Perspective This essay was originally printed in the comments section of the Apollo Magazine article "Dismantling…Juliette PeersJuly 19, 2017
Blog Is the Confederacy Obsolete? This article was originally published in Southern Partisan magazine in 1994. The past—what we believe…Ludwell H. JohnsonJune 23, 2017
Blog The Real Reason Confederate Symbols are Attacked This piece was originally printed in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1994. By the 1970s, all vestiges…Thomas LandessJune 22, 2017
Blog The Ad Too Hot to Print—Progressive Censorship in Action The promise of “Freedom of the Press” becomes meaningless when large national “Progressive/Liberal” conglomerates maintain…James Ronald KennedyJune 21, 2017
Blog Why Does the Left Really Despise the Confederacy? The South and its history are currently under assault, the most aggressive and far-reaching that…Ryan WaltersJune 19, 2017
Blog New Orleans is Ground Zero The social justice jihad to eliminate “white supremacy” was spawned by the successful eradication of…Gail JarvisMay 5, 2017
Blog Where Will the Attacks End? Confederate Flag Day Address Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia March 4,2017 I had the honor of…Patrick McSweeneyMay 4, 2017
Blog Confederate Monuments The latest Crusade of the Progressives and other Politically Correct to remove all Confederate monuments…H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 10, 2017
Blog Arlington–A Milestone in History By Dr. Simon Baruch From The New York Sun: Amid the silent heroes who rest…Simon BaruchOctober 7, 2016
Blog The Tuskegee Confederate Memorial For anyone with a casual knowledge about Alabama’s juicy and active history, the words “Tuskegee”…Tom DanielMarch 7, 2016
Blog ISIS Punks and USA Vandals This article was originally published at the Fleming Foundation. When the Islamic State blows up…Thomas FlemingSeptember 3, 2015
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