In the summer of 2015, a 60-year old former-member of the American Service and retired-electrician…
Gerald LefurgyJanuary 31, 2022
As in the practice of lingchi, the ancient Chinese form of slow and painful execution…
John MarquardtNovember 16, 2021
I was chairman of the Annual Confederate Flag Day at the North Carolina State…
Boyd CatheyNovember 12, 2021
Editor's Note: Former Abbeville Institute summer school student Jon Harris and his Last Stand Studios…
Abbeville InstituteNovember 8, 2021
Dr. Paul Gottfried's speech at the annual Confederate Flag Day commemoration in the historic 1840…
Boyd CatheyNovember 5, 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
This piece was originally published in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 1914. Replies…
James Barron HopeSeptember 13, 2021
Their carven words all testify Of then and now and future time That these were…
James Everett KiblerJuly 23, 2021
Facebook canceled the Abbeville Institute. I was notified on June 10 that the Abbeville Institute…
Brion McClanahanJune 28, 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
Over half a century before the Imperial German Navy launched its new and deadly method…
John MarquardtMay 13, 2021
During the past half century, there has been an ever-increasing tide of derogatory comments about…
John MarquardtApril 14, 2021
In May of 2008, I became embroiled in a situation that had developed with the…
Valerie ProtopapasFebruary 24, 2021
“Black identity-mongers…are creating a phoney history and phoney traditions as escapes from very real problems…
Joshua DoggrellJanuary 5, 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
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
Photo by Martin Fried I have written previously about the very real dangers of what…
Boyd CatheyAugust 24, 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
Who should Americans blame for the iconoclasm on display during the "protests" in virtually every…
Brion McClanahanJune 3, 2020
The Commandant of the Marine Corps has decreed that all symbols of the Confederacy be…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 13, 2020
From Dylann Roof to Harvey Weinstein Many of us predicted it. The war on American…
Lola SanchezMarch 27, 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
You know, as a kid who grew up without electricity, a telephone or indoor plumbing,…
Ben JonesOctober 21, 2019
Compatriots, how do y'all seek to maintain alive the Confederate heritage within your family &…
Alphonse-Louis VinhApril 4, 2019
Most every Thursday I gather with a group of friends for lunch at some restaurant…
Boyd CatheyApril 1, 2019
Presented at the Lee-Jackson Banquet, Finley’s Brigade Camp 1614 - Tallahassee, Florida, 19 January 2019…
Paul C. GrahamFebruary 6, 2019
In 1875, Rev. Moses Drury Hoge stood before 40,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, at the…
Brion McClanahanDecember 21, 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
“It was my first introduction to damn Yankees,” my oldest sister remarked of her first…
Dissident MamaMay 16, 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
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