The modern academic narrative says that the South’s purpose in secession and war was to…
Rod O'BarrAugust 26, 2021
And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crimeAre pronest to it, and impute themselves…Tennyson,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 3, 2021
In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met…
Karen StokesNovember 5, 2020
For the majority of my life I have had an intense interest in the history…
Patrick SeayOctober 5, 2020
In our turbulent times it is increasingly evident that our government is disconnected to the…
Boyd CatheyOctober 28, 2019
Suffering from a nasty bacterial infection, the insomnia induced by a lamp kept lit in…
Jerry SalyerJanuary 30, 2019
It was Wednesday, April 19, 1865. The Confederate States of America lay prostrate under the…
David E. JohnsonJune 14, 2018
A review of With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era…
Brion McClanahanJune 12, 2018
A review of Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (Lawrence, KS: University…
John DevannyOctober 31, 2017
Recent years have seen a new revisionist theme emerge in the history of America’s two…
Ryan WaltersSeptember 4, 2017
Jefferson Davis was the conservative who tried vainly to save the Union in the face…
Bernard ThuersamAugust 2, 2016
This piece is published in honor of Davis's birthday, June 3. With unaffected distrust of…
Charles Betts GallowayJune 3, 2016
The following is a transcription of a speech given at the inaugural Education Conference…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 15, 2016
This piece is taken from Varina Davis's recollections of life in the South, published in…
Varina DavisDecember 25, 2015
Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
This essay was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine, 1989. As we conclude bicentennial celebration…
M.E. BradfordNovember 17, 2015
...... Although I have never Sought popularity by any animated Speeches or Inflammatory publications against…
Vito MussomeliOctober 20, 2015
The peaceful political separation desired by the American South in early 1861 was best summarized…
Bernard ThuersamOctober 5, 2015
In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…
Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
“Texans! The troops of other states have their reputations to gain, but the sons of…
James Rutledge RoeschJuly 3, 2015
Jefferson Davis delivered this message to the Confederate Congress on 18 February 1861. GENTLEMEN OF…
Jefferson DavisJune 5, 2015
A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth,…
Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2015
This piece originally appeared in Southern Partisan magazine in 1983. Rosemont Plantation, the childhood home…
Robert McHughJune 3, 2015
This piece was originally published June 3, 2014 at the Abbeville Blog. Senator John Warwick…
Brion McClanahanJune 1, 2015
Originally published by the Unz Review on 15 April 2015. Back in 1990 in Richmond,…
Boyd CatheyApril 17, 2015
James M. McPherson recently appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his latest book, Embattled…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 5, 2015
I have seen enough of publick men to come to the conclusion, that there are…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 25, 2015
“Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus … stripped him, and put on him…
Felicity AllenJuly 24, 2014
The introduction to Mike Church's edited volume of Albert Taylor Bledsoe's masterful work, Is Davis…
Brion McClanahanJuly 23, 2014
Too often a narrative is passed from one person to the next until it becomes…
Carl JonesJune 23, 2014
For any historian, seeing or hearing the past, holding it in your hand, is almost…
Brion McClanahanJune 17, 2014
After his release from imprisonment in 1867, President Jefferson Davis journeyed to Canada where he…
Bernard ThuersamJune 11, 2014
This piece originally appeared in the North American Review, February 1890. To DO justice to…
Jefferson DavisJune 6, 2014
Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…
Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…
Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…
Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…
Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Limited by a popular and academic culture at the beginning of the 21st century that…
H. Lee Cheek, Jr.May 2, 2014
A few months back, I had a student ask me about Don Livingston's characterization of…
Brion McClanahanApril 14, 2014
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