A recent article in the politically conservative National Review about Ulysses Grant’s presidency by historian…
Philip LeighMay 3, 2022
Part 5 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…
Clyde WilsonApril 5, 2022
From our 2008 Summer School, Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric In some respects, the title of…
John DevannyMarch 31, 2022
Postwar Southern reconstruction became corrupted when congressional Republicans took charge of it with the March…
Philip LeighMarch 2, 2022
Editor's Note: United States Senator Thomas F. Bayard delivered this speech in January, 1875…
Thomas F. BayardOctober 29, 2021
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…
Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
Although commonly portrayed as one of the largest mob attacks on blacks by white racists…
Philip LeighJuly 22, 2021
Written in the Year 2021 Hampton, our stalwart Wade, As wily as Odysseus in warAs…
James Everett KiblerApril 30, 2021
On April 14, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden announced that, beginning May 1, the United…
Jason MorganApril 26, 2021
Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War.…
Philip LeighApril 21, 2021
“Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?” asks one of the characters on…
Casey ChalkMarch 9, 2021
It is a sad thing that it should fall to a junior representative from New…
Tom HerveyJanuary 22, 2021
The old saying: “American by birth, Southern by the grace of God” certainly applies to…
Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 21, 2021
Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated…
Philip LeighJanuary 19, 2021
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
In an editorial published a little over a year after the Civil War ended, a…
Shane AndersonOctober 16, 2020
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us…All these were honoured…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 3, 2020
The political structure in the United States is often portrayed by the media and its…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 4, 2020
Caught a tweet tonight from Professor Henry Louis Gates, the Executive Producer of this PBS…
Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 24, 2020
Despite his unrivaled popularity after the Civil War, Republcan Ulysses Grant won the presidency merely…
Philip LeighNovember 26, 2019
In August of 1862, two years before his infamous ‘March to the Sea’, General William…
Vann BosemanOctober 31, 2019
J.P. Morgan, tycoon banker and a close friend to President Stephen Grover Cleveland, observed that…
Justin PedersonOctober 30, 2019
Every now and then an acquaintance who reads what I write will ask me: “Boyd,…
Boyd CatheyOctober 4, 2019
Conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager has become a YouTube success with his five-minute videos…
Philip LeighSeptember 27, 2019
I recently read a report of a professor who declared that he had come sadly…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 23, 2019
Prager U and the American Battlefield Trust recently teamed-up to sponsor this six minute video by Princeton…
Philip LeighSeptember 13, 2019
Professor Allen Guelzo has a new video at Prager U “explaining” the “good, bad, and…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 12, 2019
A review of Punished with Poverty: The Suffering South-Prosperity to Poverty & the Continuing Struggle…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2019
This essay was originally published in The Lasting South (Regnery, 1957). Recently when Bertrand Russell…
Clifford DowdeyAugust 7, 2019
Mr. Leigh presented this paper at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on The New…
Philip LeighAugust 5, 2019
A bill to establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs was introduced in the House of…
Bernard ThuersamJuly 11, 2019
Jabez Lafayette Monroe Curry was one of the major political figures of the Old South.…
John ChodesMay 6, 2019
'The Journalist & The General' Thomas Morris Chester, the war correspondent in the Eastern Theater…
Gerald LefurgyApril 11, 2019
A review of Yankee Empire: Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home (Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by…
Brett MoffattApril 9, 2019
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of U.S. Grant’s inauguration as President of the United States.…
Brion McClanahanApril 8, 2019
The so-called Civil Rights movement began in the mid-1950s with goals of ending segregation and…
Gail JarvisFebruary 28, 2019
Many years ago the historian Francis Parkman wrote a passage in one of his narratives…
Richard M. WeaverJanuary 14, 2019
There is a dichotomy to how people view Jesse James. While some have viewed him…
Michael MartinSeptember 27, 2018
In October 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the executive…
Brion McClanahanAugust 15, 2018
A review of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David Blight (Harvard University…
Josh PhillipsAugust 7, 2018
A review of Maximilian and Carlota: Europe’s Last Empire in Mexico by Mary Margaret McAllen…
Terry HulseyJuly 24, 2018
It was Wednesday, April 19, 1865. The Confederate States of America lay prostrate under the…
David E. JohnsonJune 14, 2018
Picture it. A book store in Madison, Wisconsin, in the mid-’90s. Quite the unlikely place…
Dissident MamaJune 6, 2018
President Trump’s proposed ten-percent tariff on refined aluminum yields a teachable moment for Southern history…
Philip LeighMarch 30, 2018
Although labeled a Western, True Grit is also a novel about Reconstruction in Arkansas and the Indian…
Philip LeighFebruary 19, 2018
White privilege has become a major leftwing talking point and justification for a plethora of…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 17, 2018
Those who have read his Count of Monte Cristo can readily appreciate the wisdom of Alexander Dumas…
Philip LeighNovember 8, 2017
Portraying a furtive agenda as a benevolent endeavor has occurred frequently throughout our history. Unscrupulous…
Gail JarvisNovember 6, 2017
From the beginnings to rather recent times, sympathetic portrayals of Confederates have been a mainstay…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 27, 2017
A review of Southern Reconstruction by Philip Leigh (Westholme, 2017). Confronting the establishment narrative about…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 26, 2017
Was California Governor and Senator Leland Stanford—founder of Stanford University—sufficiently racist to justify dropping his…
Philip LeighJune 12, 2017
Most modern historians give the post Civil War Republican Party a free pass on racism.…
Philip LeighMay 24, 2017
On the morning of July 5, 1880, Colonel E.B.C. Cash and Colonel William M. Shannon…
Charles GoolsbyMarch 24, 2017
Editor's note: This piece was originally printed as an unsigned piece in DeBow's Review in…
Abbeville InstituteOctober 5, 2016
The Union League is one of the most cryptic of Civil War and Reconstruction era topics…
Philip LeighSeptember 29, 2016
Reprinted from brionmcclanahan.com As the first leg of the American invasion force rolled through Iraq…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 27, 2016
Post Civil War racial adjustment was a problem Southerner whites didn’t want to face and…
Philip LeighJuly 29, 2016
Editor's note: Mr. Leigh has published a new book titled The Confederacy at Flood Tide. …
Philip LeighJune 24, 2016
As the Sesquicentennial of Reconstruction progresses and the popular press debates whether slavery merits reparations,…
Philip LeighMay 26, 2016
Over the years, countless thousands the New Yorkers have passed by monuments in their city…
John MarquardtApril 22, 2016
It is no surprise to Civil War students that Ulysses Grant’s reputation has soared over…
Philip LeighApril 18, 2016
This post was originally published at fredoneverything.org. A frequent theme nowadays is “Why do they…
Fred ReedApril 7, 2016
In 1872, Daniel W. Voorhees, a Congressman of Indiana, made a speech in the U.S.…
Karen StokesFebruary 8, 2016
Widely praised for his 2009 Cotton and Race in the Making of America, author Gene…
Philip LeighJanuary 15, 2016
Gentlemen of the Historical Society of Mecklenburg (1876): Our president has appropriately introduced the series…
Daniel Harvey HillDecember 15, 2015
This article was originally printed in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran Magazine. In…
Boyd CatheyNovember 19, 2015
This article is reprinted from Edward Spencer, An Outline Public Life and Services Of Thomas F. Bayard, Senator…
Edward SpencerOctober 27, 2015
I spent some time perusing my son's sixth grade history book. I didn't read it…
Carl JonesOctober 8, 2015
“Way down in Missouri…Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me…” – Lyrics from…
Travis ArchieJune 23, 2015
With the Sesquicentennial of the epic war of American history winding down, many may think…
William CawthonMay 19, 2015
This piece was originally printed at res33blog.com. The commentary by University of North Carolina-Wilmington history…
R.E. Smith, Jr.May 18, 2015
The wife of the president H.L. Mencken referred to as “Roosevelt the Second” provided much…
Bernard ThuersamMay 7, 2015
Hiram Rhodes Revels was born in North Carolina and served as a chaplain in the…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 2, 2015
Yesterday (October 29) was Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.'s birthday, the next to last member of…
Brion McClanahanOctober 30, 2014
The final part in this installment is a lecture entitled, "Reconstruction in the Experience of…
Clyde WilsonOctober 30, 2014
Few American cities have been so meticulously studied, admired or—for that matter—vilified as has Charleston.…
Jack TrotterSeptember 30, 2014
How do you achieve peace and normal life after a civil war? Of course the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 8, 2014
Reconstruction. There is no part of American history in which what is taught these days…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2014
“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late.…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 21, 2014
The month following Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox in April 1865, Andrew Johnson submitted…
Philip LeighAugust 4, 2014
The table below summarizes Federal Tax revenues and spending for twenty years following the Civil…
Philip LeighJuly 23, 2014
In my article from last week entitled “1865 and Modern Relevance” I asserted that the…
Carl JonesApril 28, 2014
During and after the Civil War, Southerners repeatedly declared that the cause for which they…
Forrest McDonaldApril 23, 2014
In his book The Coming of the Glory (1949), author John S. Tillery relates that…
Carl JonesApril 21, 2014
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