Blog President Grant is Overrated A recent article in the politically conservative National Review about Ulysses Grant’s presidency by historian…Philip LeighMay 3, 2022
Blog A Dangerous Rock Rolling Down Hill Part 6 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…Clyde WilsonApril 11, 2022
Blog Emancipation After the War Part 5 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…Clyde WilsonApril 5, 2022
Blog Neo-Abolitionist Historiography From our 2008 Summer School, Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric In some respects, the title of…John DevannyMarch 31, 2022
Blog Reconstruction Era Chicanery Postwar Southern reconstruction became corrupted when congressional Republicans took charge of it with the March…Philip LeighMarch 2, 2022
Blog A Sham of Free Government Editor's Note: United States Senator Thomas F. Bayard delivered this speech in January, 1875…Thomas F. BayardOctober 29, 2021
Blog The Unwanted Southern Conservatives No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
Blog Was the Battle of Liberty Place a “Race Riot”? Although commonly portrayed as one of the largest mob attacks on blacks by white racists…Philip LeighJuly 22, 2021
Blog Contemplation in an Evil Time Written in the Year 2021 Hampton, our stalwart Wade, As wily as Odysseus in warAs…James Everett KiblerApril 30, 2021
Blog Reconstruction is America’s Longest War On April 14, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden announced that, beginning May 1, the United…Jason MorganApril 26, 2021
Blog Robert E. Lee: Educator and Conciliator Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War.…Philip LeighApril 21, 2021
Blog A Yankee Who Understood Southerners “Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?” asks one of the characters on…Casey ChalkMarch 9, 2021
Blog The New Face of “Liberation” It is a sad thing that it should fall to a junior representative from New…Tom HerveyJanuary 22, 2021
Blog American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God The old saying: “American by birth, Southern by the grace of God” certainly applies to…Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 21, 2021
Blog A Good Reason to Honor Robert E. Lee Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated…Philip LeighJanuary 19, 2021
2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?Conferences The Postbellum South as an Exploited Colony From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
Blog The Postbellum South as an Exploited Colony From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…Philip LeighDecember 24, 2020
Blog Black Confederates in Reconstruction Newspapers In an editorial published a little over a year after the Civil War ended, a…Shane AndersonOctober 16, 2020
Blog The Remnant, Part II Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us…All these were honoured…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 3, 2020
Blog Victor Davis Hanson and “Southern Racism” The political structure in the United States is often portrayed by the media and its…Paul H. YarbroughMay 4, 2020
Blog PBS’s Poisonous Reconstruction Series Caught a tweet tonight from Professor Henry Louis Gates, the Executive Producer of this PBS…Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 24, 2020
Blog Did Republicans Bribe Voters to Elect U. S. Grant President? Despite his unrivaled popularity after the Civil War, Republcan Ulysses Grant won the presidency merely…Philip LeighNovember 26, 2019
Blog How Yankees Fostered Southern Disease In August of 1862, two years before his infamous ‘March to the Sea’, General William…Vann BosemanOctober 31, 2019
Blog California, the Chinese, and Nullification J.P. Morgan, tycoon banker and a close friend to President Stephen Grover Cleveland, observed that…Justin PedersonOctober 30, 2019
Blog How the Neocons are Helping Destroy Western Civilization Every now and then an acquaintance who reads what I write will ask me: “Boyd,…Boyd CatheyOctober 4, 2019
Blog Pointing out Neocon Errors Conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager has become a YouTube success with his five-minute videos…Philip LeighSeptember 27, 2019
Blog Guelzo Uncovered I recently read a report of a professor who declared that he had come sadly…Clyde WilsonSeptember 23, 2019
Blog Who Won Reconstruction? Prager U and the American Battlefield Trust recently teamed-up to sponsor this six minute video by Princeton…Philip LeighSeptember 13, 2019
Blog Guelzo’s Reconstruction Gaffe Professor Allen Guelzo has a new video at Prager U “explaining” the “good, bad, and…Brion McClanahanSeptember 12, 2019
Review Posts Punished with Poverty A review of Punished with Poverty: The Suffering South-Prosperity to Poverty & the Continuing Struggle…Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2019
Blog The Case for the Confederacy This essay was originally published in The Lasting South (Regnery, 1957). Recently when Bertrand Russell…Clifford DowdeyAugust 7, 2019
Blog Economic Reconstruction Mr. Leigh presented this paper at the 2019 Abbeville Institute Summer School on The New…Philip LeighAugust 5, 2019
Blog The War Power is All Power A bill to establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs was introduced in the House of…Bernard ThuersamJuly 11, 2019
Blog Guerilla War from the Pulpit Jabez Lafayette Monroe Curry was one of the major political figures of the Old South.…John ChodesMay 6, 2019
Blog Respect Across the Bows 'The Journalist & The General' Thomas Morris Chester, the war correspondent in the Eastern Theater…Gerald LefurgyApril 11, 2019
Review Posts Yankee Empire A review of Yankee Empire: Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home (Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by…Brett MoffattApril 9, 2019
Blog Reconstruction and Recreation 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of U.S. Grant’s inauguration as President of the United States.…Brion McClanahanApril 8, 2019
Blog First They Came for Southern Heritage The so-called Civil Rights movement began in the mid-1950s with goals of ending segregation and…Gail JarvisFebruary 28, 2019
Blog The Southern Tradition Many years ago the historian Francis Parkman wrote a passage in one of his narratives…Richard M. WeaverJanuary 14, 2019
Blog Was Jesse James a Southern Robin Hood? There is a dichotomy to how people view Jesse James. While some have viewed him…Michael MartinSeptember 27, 2018
Blog Anything Is Nice If It Come From Dixieland In October 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the executive…Brion McClanahanAugust 15, 2018
Review Posts The Power of Memory: How to Remember America’s Most Traumatic Crisis A review of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David Blight (Harvard University…Josh PhillipsAugust 7, 2018
Review Posts Confederates in Mexico A review of Maximilian and Carlota: Europe’s Last Empire in Mexico by Mary Margaret McAllen…Terry HulseyJuly 24, 2018
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
Blog Redeeming the Time Picture it. A book store in Madison, Wisconsin, in the mid-’90s. Quite the unlikely place…Dissident MamaJune 6, 2018
Blog Trump’s Aluminum Tariff: A Teachable Moment President Trump’s proposed ten-percent tariff on refined aluminum yields a teachable moment for Southern history…Philip LeighMarch 30, 2018
Blog “True Grit” as a Reconstruction Story Although labeled a Western, True Grit is also a novel about Reconstruction in Arkansas and the Indian…Philip LeighFebruary 19, 2018
Blog “White Privilege” or “Yankee Privilege?” White privilege has become a major leftwing talking point and justification for a plethora of…James Ronald KennedyJanuary 17, 2018
Blog A Changing Reconstruction Narrative Those who have read his Count of Monte Cristo can readily appreciate the wisdom of Alexander Dumas…Philip LeighNovember 8, 2017
Blog An Expired Narrative Portraying a furtive agenda as a benevolent endeavor has occurred frequently throughout our history. Unscrupulous…Gail JarvisNovember 6, 2017
Blog Hollywood Before the “Hate Confederate” Movement From the beginnings to rather recent times, sympathetic portrayals of Confederates have been a mainstay…Clyde WilsonSeptember 27, 2017
Review Posts Southern Reconstruction A review of Southern Reconstruction by Philip Leigh (Westholme, 2017). Confronting the establishment narrative about…Brion McClanahanSeptember 26, 2017
Blog Should Stanford University Change Its Name? Was California Governor and Senator Leland Stanford—founder of Stanford University—sufficiently racist to justify dropping his…Philip LeighJune 12, 2017
Blog Radical Republican Selective Racial Equality Most modern historians give the post Civil War Republican Party a free pass on racism.…Philip LeighMay 24, 2017
Blog Bernard Baruch: Son of the South On the morning of July 5, 1880, Colonel E.B.C. Cash and Colonel William M. Shannon…Charles GoolsbyMarch 24, 2017
Review Posts Two Aristocracies Editor's note: This piece was originally printed as an unsigned piece in DeBow's Review in…Abbeville InstituteOctober 5, 2016
Blog Union Leagues The Union League is one of the most cryptic of Civil War and Reconstruction era topics…Philip LeighSeptember 29, 2016
Review Posts The Stupid Empire Reprinted from brionmcclanahan.com As the first leg of the American invasion force rolled through Iraq…Brion McClanahanSeptember 27, 2016
Blog Booker Washington’s Bucket Post Civil War racial adjustment was a problem Southerner whites didn’t want to face and…Philip LeighJuly 29, 2016
Blog Wikipedia Book Burning Editor's note: Mr. Leigh has published a new book titled The Confederacy at Flood Tide. …Philip LeighJune 24, 2016
Blog Southern Reparations Have Already Been Paid As the Sesquicentennial of Reconstruction progresses and the popular press debates whether slavery merits reparations,…Philip LeighMay 26, 2016
Blog Healing the Wounds of War Over the years, countless thousands the New Yorkers have passed by monuments in their city…John MarquardtApril 22, 2016
Blog Grant Gets the Votes It is no surprise to Civil War students that Ulysses Grant’s reputation has soared over…Philip LeighApril 18, 2016
Blog Why They Hate Us This post was originally published at fredoneverything.org. A frequent theme nowadays is “Why do they…Fred ReedApril 7, 2016
Blog Reconstruction in South Carolina In 1872, Daniel W. Voorhees, a Congressman of Indiana, made a speech in the U.S.…Karen StokesFebruary 8, 2016
Blog The Untold Story of Reconstruction Widely praised for his 2009 Cotton and Race in the Making of America, author Gene…Philip LeighJanuary 15, 2016
Review Posts “We want not Gascons, but Southern gentlemen, honorable, high-toned men of strict integrity and straight hair.” Gentlemen of the Historical Society of Mecklenburg (1876): Our president has appropriately introduced the series…Daniel Harvey HillDecember 15, 2015
Review Posts A New Reconstruction: The Renewed Assault on Southern Heritage This article was originally printed in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran Magazine. In…Boyd CatheyNovember 19, 2015
Review Posts Thomas F. Bayard and the Defense of the South, 1866-1876 This article is reprinted from Edward Spencer, An Outline Public Life and Services Of Thomas F. Bayard, Senator…Edward SpencerOctober 27, 2015
Blog Reconstruction Continues… I spent some time perusing my son's sixth grade history book. I didn't read it…Carl JonesOctober 8, 2015
Review Posts Way Down in the (Southern State of) Missouri “Way down in Missouri…Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me…” – Lyrics from…Travis ArchieJune 23, 2015
Review Posts The Sesquicentennial of the War for Southern Independence as Symbolic of the Fallen State of the South With the Sesquicentennial of the epic war of American history winding down, many may think…William CawthonMay 19, 2015
Blog Remembering the War Between the States and Its Aftermath This piece was originally printed at res33blog.com. The commentary by University of North Carolina-Wilmington history…R.E. Smith, Jr.May 18, 2015
Blog Reconstruction’s Hungry Locusts The wife of the president H.L. Mencken referred to as “Roosevelt the Second” provided much…Bernard ThuersamMay 7, 2015
Blog “Harmony, Friendship, and Mutual Confidence Would Have Taken the Place of the Bayonet” Hiram Rhodes Revels was born in North Carolina and served as a chaplain in the…Brion McClanahanJanuary 2, 2015
Blog Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. Yesterday (October 29) was Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.'s birthday, the next to last member of…Brion McClanahanOctober 30, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Reconstruction: Violence and Dislocation The final part in this installment is a lecture entitled, "Reconstruction in the Experience of…Clyde WilsonOctober 30, 2014
Review Posts “In All the Ancient Circles”: Tourism and the Decline of Charleston’s Elite Families Few American cities have been so meticulously studied, admired or—for that matter—vilified as has Charleston.…Jack TrotterSeptember 30, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Reconstruction as a Problem in Statesmanship How do you achieve peace and normal life after a civil war? Of course the…Clyde WilsonSeptember 8, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Reconstruction Reconstruction. There is no part of American history in which what is taught these days…Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2014
Blog The Letter “Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late.…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 21, 2014
Blog The True Agenda of the 14th Amendment The month following Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox in April 1865, Andrew Johnson submitted…Philip LeighAugust 4, 2014
Blog Deconstructing Reconstruction The table below summarizes Federal Tax revenues and spending for twenty years following the Civil…Philip LeighJuly 23, 2014
Blog Reconstruction…of a Football Team? In my article from last week entitled “1865 and Modern Relevance” I asserted that the…Carl JonesApril 28, 2014
Review Posts Was the Fourteenth Amendment Constitutionally Adopted? During and after the Civil War, Southerners repeatedly declared that the cause for which they…Forrest McDonaldApril 23, 2014
Blog The Terrible Swift Sword In his book The Coming of the Glory (1949), author John S. Tillery relates that…Carl JonesApril 21, 2014
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