Blog Armistead Burt: A Friend to Jefferson Davis On a recent visit to Abbeville, South Carolina I visited the Burt-Stark House, one of…Thomas HubertMay 20, 2022
Blog Jefferson Davis on Slavery in the Territories The modern academic narrative says that the South’s purpose in secession and war was to…Rod O'BarrAugust 26, 2021
Blog The End of America? I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects…Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2021
Blog Is Secession Treason? And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crimeAre pronest to it, and impute themselves…Tennyson,…H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 3, 2021
Blog A [r]epublican in Exile In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met…Karen StokesNovember 5, 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 What Jefferson Davis Would Tell Us Today (And Why It Matters) In our turbulent times it is increasingly evident that our government is disconnected to the…Boyd CatheyOctober 28, 2019
Blog Kentucky’s Confederate Sons Suffering from a nasty bacterial infection, the insomnia induced by a lamp kept lit in…Jerry SalyerJanuary 30, 2019
Blog Two Southern Presidents in History It was Wednesday, April 19, 1865. The Confederate States of America lay prostrate under the…David E. JohnsonJune 14, 2018
Review Posts Is Secession Treason? A review of With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era…Brion McClanahanJune 12, 2018
Review Posts Lincoln vs. Davis A review of Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (Lawrence, KS: University…John DevannyOctober 31, 2017
Blog Party Truths Recent years have seen a new revisionist theme emerge in the history of America’s two…Ryan WaltersSeptember 4, 2017
Blog The Unionist Davis vs. The Radical Lincoln Jefferson Davis was the conservative who tried vainly to save the Union in the face…Bernard ThuersamAugust 2, 2016
Review Posts Jefferson Davis: A Judicial Estimate This piece is published in honor of Davis's birthday, June 3. With unaffected distrust of…Charles Betts GallowayJune 3, 2016
Review Posts Confederate Emancipation The following is a transcription of a speech given at the inaugural Education Conference…James Rutledge RoeschMarch 15, 2016
Review Posts Christmas in Richmond, 1864 This piece is taken from Varina Davis's recollections of life in the South, published in…Varina DavisDecember 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 A Long Farewell: The Southern Valedictories of 1860-1861 This essay was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine, 1989. As we conclude bicentennial celebration…M.E. BradfordNovember 17, 2015
Review Posts Slavery in the Confederate Constitution ...... Although I have never Sought popularity by any animated Speeches or Inflammatory publications against…Vito MussomeliOctober 20, 2015
Blog One Ruler to Enforce Obedience The peaceful political separation desired by the American South in early 1861 was best summarized…Bernard ThuersamOctober 5, 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
Blog Texas Reject “Texans! The troops of other states have their reputations to gain, but the sons of…James Rutledge RoeschJuly 3, 2015
Blog Independence, Peace, and Prosperity Jefferson Davis delivered this message to the Confederate Congress on 18 February 1861. GENTLEMEN OF…Jefferson DavisJune 5, 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
Review Posts The Truth About Jefferson Davis This piece originally appeared in Southern Partisan magazine in 1983. Rosemont Plantation, the childhood home…Robert McHughJune 3, 2015
Blog Jefferson Davis and The Lame Lion of Lynchburg This piece was originally published June 3, 2014 at the Abbeville Blog. Senator John Warwick…Brion McClanahanJune 1, 2015
Blog On Abraham Lincoln and the Inversion of American History Originally published by the Unz Review on 15 April 2015. Back in 1990 in Richmond,…Boyd CatheyApril 17, 2015
Blog The Professor, the Prankster, and the President James M. McPherson recently appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his latest book, Embattled…James Rutledge RoeschMarch 5, 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
Blog Jeff Davis’s Crown of Thorns “Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus … stripped him, and put on him…Felicity AllenJuly 24, 2014
Review Posts Is Davis A Traitor? The introduction to Mike Church's edited volume of Albert Taylor Bledsoe's masterful work, Is Davis…Brion McClanahanJuly 23, 2014
Review Posts Ft. Sumter: The First Act of Aggression Too often a narrative is passed from one person to the next until it becomes…Carl JonesJune 23, 2014
Blog You Should Have Seen It In Color For any historian, seeing or hearing the past, holding it in your hand, is almost…Brion McClanahanJune 17, 2014
Blog “I cannot speak of my dead so soon.” After his release from imprisonment in 1867, President Jefferson Davis journeyed to Canada where he…Bernard ThuersamJune 11, 2014
Review Posts The Doctrine of State’s Rights This piece originally appeared in the North American Review, February 1890. To DO justice to…Jefferson DavisJune 6, 2014
Blog Farewell Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Blog Farewell Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Blog Centennial Wars Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Blog Centennial Wars Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Blog Reconsidering Alexander H. Stephens Limited by a popular and academic culture at the beginning of the 21st century that…H. Lee Cheek, Jr.May 2, 2014
Blog Jefferson Davis and the Kenner Mission A few months back, I had a student ask me about Don Livingston's characterization of…Brion McClanahanApril 14, 2014
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