When Robert E. Lee died in 1870, a memorial association was formed in the City…
Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 24, 2022
Governor Northam's henchmen have finally located the time capsule buried in the Memorial erected to…
Cliff PageDecember 28, 2021
After the Civil War, former North Carolina governor Zeb Vance became a U.S. senator. His…
Jeff MinickDecember 20, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life (Random House, 2021) by Allen Guelzo “How…
Casey ChalkNovember 23, 2021
Editor's Note: Former Abbeville Institute summer school student Jon Harris and his Last Stand Studios…
abbeinstituteNovember 8, 2021
George Will writes what amounts to a review of Allen C. Guelzo’s biography, Robert E.…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 27, 2021
This piece was originally published in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 1914. Replies…
James Barron HopeSeptember 13, 2021
L. Q. C. LAMAR TO THE VICKSBURG COMMITTEE OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 5, 1870. To Col.…
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus LamarSeptember 1, 2021
Esteem you for your genius? Just a little— But most of all your people loved…
Thomas RileyAugust 20, 2021
Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…
Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…
Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
Over half a century before the Imperial German Navy launched its new and deadly method…
John MarquardtMay 13, 2021
Continued from Part 3. “And of all the officers or men whom I ever knew he…
Earl StarbuckMay 12, 2021
Continued from Part 2. “He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a…
Earl StarbuckMay 5, 2021
Continued from Part I. “He was a superb specimen of manly grace and elegance…There was…
Earl StarbuckApril 28, 2021
In the Year of Our Lord 2021, it is fashionable for American Christians to despise…
Earl StarbuckApril 22, 2021
Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War.…
Philip LeighApril 21, 2021
Robert E. Lee's tenure as President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) should…
Philip LeighApril 15, 2021
During the past half century, there has been an ever-increasing tide of derogatory comments about…
John MarquardtApril 14, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of…
Gene Kizer, Jr.April 6, 2021
Three years ago, Woke General Ty Seidule of West Point addressed the students and faculty…
Abbeville InstituteApril 5, 2021
Ty Seidule's mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters:…
Philip LeighMarch 22, 2021
Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated…
Philip LeighJanuary 19, 2021
Lexington, Virginia January 2002 Driving up, then down the mountain hairpins into Lexington,By daylight, moonlight,…
Thomas HubertDecember 17, 2020
For the majority of my life I have had an intense interest in the history…
Patrick SeayOctober 5, 2020
What if there were 15.3 million dead American soldiers? Imagine it. Legions of the unburied…
Duncan KillenSeptember 15, 2020
A frequent argument against Confederate monuments is a “sound bite” of a quote from General…
Ernest BlevinsSeptember 2, 2020
“Madam, don't bring your sons up to detest the United States Government. Recollect that we…
Gerald LefurgyAugust 17, 2020
Tucker Carlson, a man who had revealed himself as a reliable reporter/journalist over the years,…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 24, 2020
Over a century and a half has passed since Confederate States General Robert E. Lee…
James Ronald KennedyApril 27, 2020
An outlook is bleak when nothing worse can be said than the truth. To this…
Gerald LefurgyApril 15, 2020
A review of Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian (Regnery History, 2012) by…
Joe WolvertonApril 14, 2020
A review of The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee (Forge Books, 2006) by Thomas…
Philip LeighApril 7, 2020
A review of The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil…
John C. WhatleyMarch 10, 2020
The novelist Walker Percy was inescapably Southern by virtually any measure. Born May 28, 1916…
Thomas HubertJanuary 27, 2020
A review of Robert E. Lee at War: Hope Arises from Despair (Legion of Honor…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 21, 2020
“If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous ‘wisdom’of the…
Ben JonesJanuary 20, 2020
A review of Lee vs. McClellan, The First Campaign (Regnery Publishing, 2010) by Clayton R.…
John C. WhatleyJanuary 7, 2020
Bevin Alexander’s “How Great Generals Win” was an intellectual watershed in my life. By applying…
Aaron GleasonDecember 6, 2019
A review of The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate (University…
Tom RashOctober 22, 2019
In 1866, a year after taking the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at…
Gerald LefurgyAugust 23, 2019
To those Americans who revere him—sadly, a dwindling number these days—Robert E. Lee is still…
Stephen M. KlugewiczJune 13, 2019
As a stalwart Southerner who came of age before the 1960s, its hard to believe…
Gail JarvisMay 8, 2019
'The Journalist & The General' Thomas Morris Chester, the war correspondent in the Eastern Theater…
Gerald LefurgyApril 11, 2019
The Hall of Fame recently dedicated at New York University was conceived from the Ruhmes…
Fred H. CoxMarch 27, 2019
“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Among Catholic students of political thought, few…
Jerry SalyerFebruary 20, 2019
The White House, Washington, January 16, 1907. To the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, Chairman, Chief…
Theodore RooseveltJanuary 21, 2019
Yesterday The Washington Post published an Op-Ed by former General Stanley McChrystal in which he boasted of…
Philip LeighNovember 29, 2018
As the brilliant American military victory in the Persian Gulf approaches its second anniversary, the…
Doug BostickNovember 26, 2018
Retired General Stanley McChrystal who never led troops in a winning war bravely threw out…
Paul H. YarbroughNovember 1, 2018
In June 2017, The Atlantic published a hit-piece on Robert E. Lee titled "The Myth of…
Brion McClanahanAugust 29, 2018
Were Robert E. Lee and the Confederates “traitors” who violated their oaths to the Constitution…
Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2018
“Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or…
Aaron WolfJune 13, 2018
Our culture has, of late, become rather fixated on the idea that every historical figure…
R.M. StanglerMay 31, 2018
Abbeville Institute scholar Dr. William Wilson presents a talk on the congruity between Washington and…
Jason SorensFebruary 22, 2018
Lewis Burwell Puller is a Marine Corps legend and American hero. Nicknamed “Chesty” for his…
Michael MartinJanuary 19, 2018
A few years after General Lee accepted the presidency of the then Washington College, I…
John B. CollyarJanuary 18, 2018
You would think that David Duke had somehow been elected president. Or, maybe in this…
Boyd CatheyNovember 15, 2017
At the time of his death, was Robert E. Lee a man without a country?…
William FreehoffNovember 2, 2017
The events in Charlottesville, Virginia that transpired this past weekend (11 Aug to 13 Aug)…
Robert McReynoldsAugust 21, 2017
This piece was originally printed at Fred On Everything. “The consolidation of the states into…
Fred ReedJuly 7, 2017
Two weeks ago New Orleans removed its Robert E. Lee Monument, one of four that…
Boyd CatheyJune 5, 2017
This piece was originally published at Townhall.com. Mayor Mike Signer—who had declared his intention to…
Ilana MercerMay 25, 2017
A prevailing notion throughout the grand land of America is that the constant brouhaha down…
Paul H. YarbroughMarch 31, 2017
Early in February, the City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia voted 3-2 to remove a bronze…
Allan BrownfieldFebruary 14, 2017
An honest man can never be outdone in courtesy. A sensual life is a miserable…
John DevannyFebruary 6, 2017
Several years ago, leftist blowhard Richard Cohen at the Washington Post wrote that Robert E.…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 19, 2017
Kurt Schlichter wrote an interesting article on Town Hall recently entitled Liberal Attempts to Silence…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 17, 2016
Editor's Note: A Mother's Day special dedicated to all Southern wives and mothers, this piece…
Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 8, 2016
In the wake of growing hostility toward the Confederacy a New Orleans Robert E. Lee…
Philip LeighApril 4, 2016
The following is a transcription of a speech given at the inaugural Education Conference…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 15, 2016
As Baltimore is preparing to honor a coprophagic crossdresser, the city’s double-equestrian Lee-Jackson…
J.L. BennettMarch 4, 2016
"Social Justice" is one of today's manipulative phrases. In this case "justice" is defined as…
Gail JarvisFebruary 4, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 25-29, 2016. Topics include the Southern…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 30, 2016
This essay served as the concluding chapter to Page's biography of Robert E. Lee, published…
Thomas Nelson PageJanuary 25, 2016
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 18-22, 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, Robert…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 23, 2016
This essay was originally published in The Georgia Review, Vol. II, No. 3 (Fall 1948),…
Richard M. WeaverJanuary 22, 2016
"And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice….."…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 20, 2016
January 19 will mark the 209th anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee in…
Mike ScruggsJanuary 19, 2016
In the 1850s, Ann Pamela Cunningham, a frail woman from South Carolina, was responsible for…
Karen StokesDecember 21, 2015
Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
I. THE name First given to the territory occupied by the present United States was…
Lyon G. TylerNovember 6, 2015
Note: A version of this paper originally appeared in the Summer 2015 Edition of the…
Paul C. GrahamOctober 12, 2015
Persons interviewed on those amusing and disturbing videos by satirist Mark Dice, were unaware of…
Gail JarvisAugust 13, 2015
The Confederate battle flag is protean. It is a powerful symbol that has entered the…
Clyde WilsonJuly 20, 2015
Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain must think, and hide the…
John DevannyJune 26, 2015
Delivered as the commencement address for South Carolina College, 1887. What theme is most fitting…
John Randolph TuckerJune 11, 2015
A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth,…
Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2015
Donald Davidson's (1893-1968) Lee in the Mountains was one of the first pieces we ran…
Brion McClanahanMay 11, 2015
Promoted over four senior captains just a few days shy of his nineteenth birthday, James…
Karen StokesApril 9, 2015
The lack of interest in the film "Selma" by both the public and the film…
Gail JarvisFebruary 6, 2015
We gather here today to honor the memory of brave men who willingly faced the…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 27, 2015
Delivered at the Blount County Courthouse, January 19, 2015. Robert E. Lee said “Everyone…
Carl JonesJanuary 21, 2015
This piece originally appeared on the Canada Free Press. As you can probably surmise by…
Gail JarvisJanuary 19, 2015
Brion McClanahan discusses Elizabeth Brown Pryor's Lincoln Prize winning book Reading the Man: A Portrait…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 19, 2015
Experience has taught me, that in politicks, it is much more easy to gain the…
Clyde WilsonDecember 31, 2014
I just returned from Kent Masterson Brown’s three-day tour of the Battle of Gettysburg. Brown,…
James Rutledge RoeschOctober 21, 2014
I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…
Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
Swagger and ferocity, built on a foundation of vulgarity and cowardice, those are his characteristics,…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 18, 2014
This essay originally appeared in Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 17, 2014
Statements that disparage the South and its culture are typical of our times. In fact,…
Gail JarvisJuly 29, 2014
For any historian, seeing or hearing the past, holding it in your hand, is almost…
Brion McClanahanJune 17, 2014
I was disappointed to hear of the demands of a group of Washington & Lee…
James Rutledge RoeschMay 2, 2014
What attributes make a man? More importantly, what made a Southern man? Two famous Southern…
Brion McClanahanApril 30, 2014
In present day academia, one is guaranteed a celebrated career by inventing a new way…
Clyde WilsonApril 28, 2014
It had to happen. It was as inevitable as the sunrise, death, taxes, politicians’ lies,…
Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2014
In his book The Coming of the Glory (1949), author John S. Tillery relates that…
Carl JonesApril 21, 2014
Walking into the shadows, walking alone Where the sun falls through the ruined boughs of…
Donald DavidsonApril 10, 2014
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