Outside of Portland, Maine, sits the small town of Gray. During the Civil War, the…
David CrumSeptember 26, 2022
Remarks of President Davis at the Meeting of the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors held at…
Abbeville InstituteAugust 30, 2022
Editor's note: Delivered by Congressman John Warwick Daniel at the dedication to the Confederate monument…
Abbeville InstituteAugust 24, 2022
The resignation of Dr. Ann Hunter McLean from her Youngkin appointment to the Virginia Historic…
Cliff PageAugust 16, 2022
Delivered at the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park for the Confederate Memorial Day remembrance held…
Martin O'TooleMay 12, 2022
I. The Fall of Richmond In 1930, that caustic fellow H.L. Mencken wrote that if…
Joseph R. StrombergFebruary 16, 2022
When Robert E. Lee died in 1870, a memorial association was formed in the City…
Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 24, 2022
Governor Northam's henchmen have finally located the time capsule buried in the Memorial erected to…
Cliff PageDecember 28, 2021
In a speech to the Georgia legislature in 1866, Former Vice President of the Confederacy…
Donald LivingstonDecember 27, 2021
Editor's Note: Former Abbeville Institute summer school student Jon Harris and his Last Stand Studios…
Abbeville InstituteNovember 8, 2021
The routine removal of Confederate statues signifies a new stage in the evolution of political…
Philip LeighOctober 11, 2021
Thomas Carlyle said that it takes men of worth to recognize worth in men (1).…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.October 4, 2021
My wife, Elizabeth, comes from a village called Greenwich in northern New York state. Among…
Barton CockeySeptember 27, 2021
A lot has happened in the last 20 years. Reflecting on the terrorist attack on…
Lola SanchezSeptember 24, 2021
This piece was originally published in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 1914. Replies…
James Barron HopeSeptember 13, 2021
The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2-17) are the creed of both Christians…
John MarquardtAugust 9, 2021
Their carven words all testify Of then and now and future time That these were…
James Everett KiblerJuly 23, 2021
If timid and pacified Southerners needed more proof that we are a defeated and occupied…
James Ronald KennedyJuly 20, 2021
“To those who are ignorant of the jurisprudence of their country can have no taste…
Justin PedersonJuly 16, 2021
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as…
Enoch CadeJuly 12, 2021
One of my colleagues in the ministry of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS)…
Rev. Larry BeaneJune 2, 2021
During the ongoing debate regarding the removal of the monuments honoring Confederate Generals, those in…
Prioleau AlexanderMay 14, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the political left into an apoplectic rage two weeks ago when…
Brion McClanahanApril 29, 2021
Daybreak in Dixie: Poems of the Confederacy by Linda Lee. Privately published, 2019. For those…
Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2021
Two terms that are tossed about with great liberality today are “racist” and “white supremacist.” …
Rev. Larry BeaneMarch 1, 2021
In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute…
Forrest L. MarionJanuary 7, 2021
During the past couple of months, from shortly after the presidential election until now, seven…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 4, 2021
There are very few human symbols that find absolute approval or, in the alternative, disapproval.…
Valerie ProtopapasDecember 11, 2020
In George Orwell’s novel “1984,” the central governmental agency in his fictitious country of Oceania…
John MarquardtOctober 12, 2020
For the majority of my life I have had an intense interest in the history…
Patrick SeayOctober 5, 2020
Sampson County is a large, mostly rural county in southeastern North Carolina. Like most non-metropolitan…
Boyd CatheySeptember 30, 2020
What if there were 15.3 million dead American soldiers? Imagine it. Legions of the unburied…
Duncan KillenSeptember 15, 2020
A frequent argument against Confederate monuments is a “sound bite” of a quote from General…
Ernest BlevinsSeptember 2, 2020
Eight-tenths of a mile down a dead-end Arkansas gravel road, at that dead end, past…
Travis ArchieAugust 28, 2020
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us…All these were honoured…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 3, 2020
Pietas, the most Roman of virtues, referred to the duty owed to one’s country, parents,…
John DevannyJuly 13, 2020
The sun, a single red eye, burnt what was left of the earth, holding everything…
Randall IveyJuly 10, 2020
While mobs continue tearing down monuments and shaming elected officials into removing statues of historical…
Stewart O. JonesJuly 9, 2020
“Very late in the war, when defeat seemed inevitable, Northern generals were complaining that the…
J.L. BennettJuly 1, 2020
Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina comes across as a nice man, well-mannered, calm, the…
Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2020
Bentonville is the lovely little town in Northwest Arkansas that I have spent nearly my…
Neil KumarJune 22, 2020
Like locusts eating out the sustenance of farmers and agrarians, the once-proud land called Virginia…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 17, 2020
Last week Governor Ralph Northam announced his plan to remove the iconic statue of Robert…
Paul GottfriedJune 12, 2020
Who should Americans blame for the iconoclasm on display during the "protests" in virtually every…
Brion McClanahanJune 3, 2020
Increasingly, I try to avoid news-binging, watching assiduously all the compiled, feculent bilge that passes…
Boyd CatheyJune 2, 2020
Should it be asked, why then build this monument? The answer is, they do not…
Shane AndersonMay 25, 2020
From Dylann Roof to Harvey Weinstein Many of us predicted it. The war on American…
Lola SanchezMarch 27, 2020
A review of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farrar, Straus…
David GordonMarch 24, 2020
As explained yesterday, Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy maligned my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech presented on Lee-Jackson Day in…
Philip LeighMarch 16, 2020
Statues of heroes are erected to remind us of our past, of their noble deeds,…
Brett MoffattFebruary 28, 2020
Today there is a frenzied effort to tear down memorials to the Confederate dead. If…
Shane AndersonFebruary 26, 2020
On January 21st Washington Post reporter Courtland Milloy wrote an article about my “Defending Confederate Monuments” speech at the January18th…
Philip LeighFebruary 10, 2020
All across the Southland today efforts have been mounted by “woke” social justice warriors—in most…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 3, 2020
Back in 2015 when Dylan Roof shot those black folks in their church in Charleston,…
Al BensonDecember 18, 2019
With the recent triumph of the Democrat Party in the 2019 statewide elections in Virginia,…
Brion McClanahanNovember 18, 2019
There are really only two basic opinions when it comes to the world’s largest carving…
John MarquardtNovember 11, 2019
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the “Whose Heritage?” report on the…
Ernest BlevinsNovember 7, 2019
Heartbroken, I have learned that my beloved Bentonville, Arkansas, has been attacked. The Confederate monument…
Neil KumarOctober 24, 2019
This essay was presented at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on the New South.…
Philip LeighAugust 30, 2019
A semantic technique that has worked well for political types is renaming things to make…
Gail JarvisAugust 16, 2019
Does anyone remember United States Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.? I mean, for something other…
Andrew P. CalhounAugust 12, 2019
As noted in earlier posts, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and many academic historians…
Philip LeighJuly 26, 2019
Silent Sam was a Confederate statue that stood on the University of North Carolina campus…
Philip LeighJune 7, 2019
One argument used by those wanting to remove Confederate statues is that contemporary blacks had little…
Philip LeighMay 31, 2019
On August 22, 2018, Forbes Magazine published an article written by Kristina Killgrove entitled "Scholars…
Shane AndersonMay 22, 2019
As a stalwart Southerner who came of age before the 1960s, its hard to believe…
Gail JarvisMay 8, 2019
Most every Thursday I gather with a group of friends for lunch at some restaurant…
Boyd CatheyApril 1, 2019
You don’t see much on the continued attack and removal of war memorials in the…
Lee CongletonMarch 29, 2019
Editor's Note: During the height of the Silent Sam protests in the Summer of 2017,…
Jonathan HarrisMarch 21, 2019
In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote: If the Civil War is more alive to…
Philip LeighMarch 14, 2019
For thirty-one years the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has sponsored…
Boyd CatheyMarch 11, 2019
Whoever weds himself to the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in…
Philip LeighMarch 7, 2019
Presented at the Lee-Jackson Banquet, Finley’s Brigade Camp 1614 - Tallahassee, Florida, 19 January 2019…
Paul C. GrahamFebruary 6, 2019
In the ongoing war against Southern Confederate heritage, we need to be cognizant of the…
Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 31, 2019
When Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo issued a ruling on the Alabama Memorial Preservation…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 24, 2019
The South is and always been conservative. But with the constant hammer of political correctness…
Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 18, 2019
When one grows old one tends to resent wasting time and there is nothing that…
Valerie ProtopapasJanuary 10, 2019
In 1875, Rev. Moses Drury Hoge stood before 40,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, at the…
Brion McClanahanDecember 21, 2018
When National Socialism came to power in Germany in 1933, it sought an ethnic and…
Timothy A. DuskinNovember 5, 2018
Pro-Southern writers have long been suspicious of Victor Davis Hanson, given his association with the…
Jerry SalyerOctober 31, 2018
“Nashville’s going to be a progressive, diverse city and there’s nothing that you can do…
James Rutledge RoeschOctober 1, 2018
There is a tendency for each generation to assume its opinions are the ultimate correct…
Gail JarvisAugust 30, 2018
On Monday night, August 20, 2018, approximately 200 to 250 raucous demonstrators gathered in a…
Boyd CatheyAugust 23, 2018
In September of 1961, I left my job at a basket factory in Wilmington, North…
Ben JonesAugust 22, 2018
The diagram below graphs the number of Confederate statues erected between 1870 and 1980. Since…
Philip LeighJune 29, 2018
The quote below indirectly warns about the implications of Confederate statue removals and the…
Philip LeighJune 11, 2018
After the Charleston shooting in 2015, all across the old Confederacy memorials, monuments, flags and…
Boyd CatheyMay 30, 2018
When New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu succeeded in removing three Confederate monuments, he said those…
Thomas J. CraneMay 17, 2018
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
An international organization recently released a ranking of the 50 most dangerous cities in the…
Gail JarvisApril 2, 2018
The term “science” is applied rather loosely today. In some cases what we call science…
Gail JarvisMarch 1, 2018
Yes, give me a land with a grave in each spot And names in the…
Christopher J. CarterFebruary 8, 2018
The city fathers of Memphis have been engaged in police state tactics and patently illegal…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 22, 2018
For most of our nation's two and a half century history, newspapers were the essential…
Gail JarvisJanuary 15, 2018
With the election of Rutherford B. Hayes by a one vote margin in the Electoral…
Cliff PageDecember 6, 2017
Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article about eighty-eight year old Nelson Winbush who is a Florida black…
Philip LeighOctober 23, 2017
Back in my days as a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, I…
John DevannyOctober 13, 2017
In the wake of the current controversy over Confederate monuments, the Southern Poverty Law Center…
Michael ArmstrongOctober 11, 2017
The present feverish campaign to remove Confederate monuments and other symbols which offend certain loud…
Boyd CatheyOctober 6, 2017
A few years ago Stephen Fry, English actor, writer, and comic, hosted a televised tour…
Gail JarvisOctober 5, 2017
In the news late today, on a nice summery afternoon in early September, I saw…
Alphonse-Louis VinhOctober 2, 2017
The gentle wave of what had been termed “monumania” that rolled over the South and…
John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2017
On 28 August 2017, the American Historical Association (AHA) issued a “Statement on Confederate Monuments”…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 6, 2017
This is the gravestone of my great-great-great grandfather, Benjamin Parks Middleton, located in the Bethel…
Houston MiddletonSeptember 1, 2017
During the past few decades, there has been an ever-growing sentiment throughout the Unites Sates…
John MarquardtAugust 24, 2017
In 1958 a nearly forgotten thirty-four year old Texas author named William Humphrey debuted his…
Philip LeighAugust 4, 2017
An Address given on the Occasion of the Observance of Confederate Flag Day Raleigh, North…
Paul C. GrahamAugust 2, 2017
This essay was originally printed in the comments section of the Apollo Magazine article "Dismantling…
Juliette PeersJuly 19, 2017
This article was originally published in Southern Partisan magazine in 1994. The past—what we believe…
Ludwell H. JohnsonJune 23, 2017
This piece was originally printed in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1994. By the 1970s, all vestiges…
Thomas LandessJune 22, 2017
The promise of “Freedom of the Press” becomes meaningless when large national “Progressive/Liberal” conglomerates maintain…
James Ronald KennedyJune 21, 2017
The South and its history are currently under assault, the most aggressive and far-reaching that…
Ryan WaltersJune 19, 2017
The social justice jihad to eliminate “white supremacy” was spawned by the successful eradication of…
Gail JarvisMay 5, 2017
Confederate Flag Day Address Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia March 4,2017 I had the honor of…
Patrick McSweeneyMay 4, 2017
The latest Crusade of the Progressives and other Politically Correct to remove all Confederate monuments…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 10, 2017
By Dr. Simon Baruch From The New York Sun: Amid the silent heroes who rest…
Simon BaruchOctober 7, 2016
For anyone with a casual knowledge about Alabama’s juicy and active history, the words “Tuskegee”…
Tom DanielMarch 7, 2016
This article was originally published at the Fleming Foundation. When the Islamic State blows up…
Thomas FlemingSeptember 3, 2015
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