Blog “National Unity” is a Mirage Now, after what may have been a racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo (May 14) by…Boyd CatheyMay 17, 2022
Blog Common Cause and Common Fate Mr. President--I fully concur with the gentleman from Montgomery, in the propriety of immediately passing…Lewis M. StoneApril 20, 2022
Blog The War of Secession A line from Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” In the case of the great…John MarquardtApril 12, 2022
Blog The Constitutionality of Secession To begin with, it is hornbook law* that the signatories to any contract or compact,…Valerie ProtopapasApril 7, 2022
Blog Lincoln, Putin, and Yankee Hyopcrisy At the writing of this article, the ongoing struggle between Ukraine and Russia has most…Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyMarch 23, 2022
Blog A War to Free the Slaves? Part 3 in Clyde Wilson's series "African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective." Read Part 1 and…Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2022
Blog Robert E. Lee and His Time Delivered at the 2013 Abbeville Institute Summer School. What I want to do is thoroughly…William WilsonMarch 8, 2022
Blog Secession Declarations Do Not Prove the War was over Slavery ACADEMIA'S ABSOLUTE PROOF that the War Between the States was fought over slavery is based…Gene Kizer, Jr.February 25, 2022
BlogReview Posts What We Have to Expect A review of How Radical Republican Antislavery Rhetoric and Violence Precipitated Secession, October 1859 -…John DevannyFebruary 15, 2022
Blog Slavery and Abolitionism as Viewed by a Georgia Slave After 200 years of digesting Enlightenment ideals of natural rights, and reciting a pledge that…Rod O'BarrJanuary 12, 2022
Blog How the British Viewed the War But most significant of all was the attitude assumed by the Federal Government in dealing…William Edward Hartpole LeckyJanuary 11, 2022
Blog Secession Isn’t Treason A few more words, and we shall be in a condition to answer the question…Raphael SemmesDecember 1, 2021
BlogReview Posts The Right Side of History A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life (Random House, 2021) by Allen Guelzo “How…Casey ChalkNovember 23, 2021
Blog A New Civil War? By 1860 our country was so hopelessly divided that it broke up, and only by…M.C. AtkinsNovember 17, 2021
Blog Missouri’s Road to Secession Missouri celebrated her 160th anniversary of her secession from the Union on October 28. It…Wes FranklinNovember 4, 2021
Blog What Did the Founders Intend? Ask a Canadian Critical to the debate regarding the right of secession is where, in the minds of…Rod O'BarrNovember 3, 2021
Blog On “Southern” Slavery It has become fashionable to bash the South - not only by removing war memorials…Rev. Larry BeaneOctober 28, 2021
Blog Disunion Then and Now The delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, presumptuously shelving that…J.L. BennettOctober 22, 2021
Review Posts When in the Course of Human Events A review of When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern…Terry HulseyOctober 19, 2021
Review Posts Break It Up A review of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect…Terry HulseySeptember 14, 2021
Blog The Blessings and Security of Self Government THOMAS JEFFERSON TO ROGER C. WEIGHTMAN MONTICELLO, June 24, 1826. RESPECTED SIR: The kind invitation…Thomas JeffersonSeptember 2, 2021
Blog Historical Context Explains Secession That Southern secession was ultimately about independence with or without slavery is easily determined by…Rod O'BarrAugust 12, 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 Disunion Sentiment in Congress in 1794 John Taylor was born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1750, one year before James Madison,…Gaillard HuntJuly 28, 2021
Review Posts Lincoln and the Border States A review of Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (University Press of Kansas,…Terry HulseyJune 29, 2021
Blog Secession Was Not About Slavery Original in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. First some context. The South did…Rod O'BarrJune 11, 2021
Blog A Cascadian Confederacy? Nearly two weeks ago, five counties in Oregon voted to approve a measure to secede…Cole BranhamJune 4, 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 “Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home” Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
Blog Bad History Masquerading as an Appeal to Peace and Piety: A Response to Allen Guelzo’s “Why We Must Forget the Lost Cause” It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
Review Posts A Primer on Secession A review of Secession, State & Liberty, (Transaction, 1998) edited with an introduction by David…Terry HulseyMay 18, 2021
Blog Only A House Divided Within Itself Will Stand On the Ingraham Angle recently, guest, Craig Shirley offered an opinion that should cheer the…Paul H. YarbroughApril 7, 2021
Review Posts Secession’s Magic Numbers, Part II A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. A…Terry HulseyMarch 23, 2021
Blog Secession’s Magic Numbers, Part One A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. American…Terry HulseyFebruary 23, 2021
Blog A (Maryland) Southern Hero Early in the civil war President Lincoln had Federal Troops occupy the State of Maryland. …Paul CallahanJanuary 8, 2021
Blog A Red and Blue Divorce? The red and the blue—states that is-- are as different as the colorless black and…Paul H. YarbroughDecember 14, 2020
Blog Secession: The Point of the Spear Secession: The point of the spear aimed at the heart of the American Leviathan –…Terry HulseyNovember 20, 2020
Blog Is Separation the Answer? As of Friday, November 6, the votes are still being counted in at least six…Boyd CatheyNovember 9, 2020
Blog How Arizona Seceded From the Union The United States acquired a vast area of the Southwest with the Treaty of Guadalupe…Steve LeeOctober 22, 2020
Review Posts Secession Becomes Thinkable A review of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020)…Donald LivingstonOctober 20, 2020
Blog The Polls, Donald Trump, and Secession Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each…Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2020
Blog A Simple Explanation What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of…Valerie ProtopapasOctober 14, 2020
Blog Gaslighting Dixie’s Stateless People Since 2015, it has become standard fare for the left to accuse President Trump of…James Ronald KennedyOctober 7, 2020
Blog California Secession…in 1858? Antebellum California secession is a little known topic, but the Southern portion of the State…Justin PedersonOctober 1, 2020
Blog Was Secession Treason? Recently an acquaintance of mine remarked that the Confederate statue in her hometown should be…Earl StarbuckSeptember 18, 2020
Blog They Were Not Traitors A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they…Philip LeighSeptember 16, 2020
Blog The Fire Eater Edmund Ruffin, the consummate Fire-Eater, was far greater than the sum of his parts; as…Neil KumarAugust 26, 2020
Blog Gouverneur Morris in 1812 Northern secession was openly in the political brew again. Eleven (11) years before, Jefferson had…Vito MussomeliJuly 31, 2020
Blog The Egalitarian Myth and Secession Increasingly, I try to avoid news-binging, watching assiduously all the compiled, feculent bilge that passes…Boyd CatheyJune 2, 2020
Blog Can the Southern Tradition Save America? “Where you gonna be when half of California riots? Where you gonna run to when…Brion McClanahanMarch 23, 2020
Blog Violence Breeds Violence Estimates of the number of South Vietnamese civilian casualties during the U.S. war in Vietnam…Norman BlackMarch 20, 2020
Blog The Benedict Option is Spiritual Secession Hillary Clinton infamously said: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half…Aaron GleasonMarch 4, 2020
Blog An Environmental Right I started my political journey on what I thought to be the Left. Books like…Neil KumarMarch 2, 2020
Blog Secession and Its Discontents The American story is a story of secession, or better still secessions. The first permanent…John DevannyFebruary 12, 2020
Review Posts Small is Still Beautiful A review of Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered (ISI Books, 2006)…Kirkpatrick SaleFebruary 11, 2020
Blog If You Can’t Blame the Confederacy, Secede! American political theater has become the most entertaining show in town. Trump refuses to shake…Brion McClanahanFebruary 6, 2020
Blog Progressive Californians Should Support Secession Progressive California lawmakers have decided to create their own Green New Deal in order to…Aaron GleasonFebruary 5, 2020
Blog Lincoln v. Trump Not that long ago, it seems, Congressional Democrats were calling the Constitution an outdated impediment…J.L. BennettJanuary 10, 2020
Blog The Left’s March Through Southern Institutions A photograph of the University of Mississippi Majorettes graced the cover of the September 24,…James Ronald KennedyJanuary 6, 2020
Blog Poison Under the Wings The beginning of the American political order goes much further back than the Philadelphia Convention…John DevannyNovember 20, 2019
Blog Confederates Were Not Traitors Confederate statue critics increasingly argue that the monuments should be torn down because they honor…Philip LeighNovember 13, 2019
Blog Taylor and Jefferson on Secession One of the most enduring myths of American history centers on the “compact theory” of…Brion McClanahanNovember 6, 2019
Review Posts The Secession Movement in the Middle States A review of The Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic States (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,…Vito MussomeliOctober 29, 2019
Blog Town Line, C.S.A. In his recent book, Call Sign Chaos : Learning To Lead, former Secretary of Defense…John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2019
Blog Secession Hypocrisy Leaders of every nation do what they think is in their countries’ immediate best interest…Norman BlackSeptember 5, 2019
Blog What if the South had Its Own Congress? On May 17, 2019, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 5: Equality Act—better…James Ronald KennedyAugust 29, 2019
Blog Is Political Separation in Our Future? In a recent column, “Nationalism vs. Secession: Should America Break Up? (July 27), I included…Boyd CatheyAugust 19, 2019
Blog Is it Time for America to Break Apart? There is a question that increasingly arises, uncomfortably, in our conversations…from brief exchanges at work…Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2019
Blog The Limits of a Politics of Tolerance Secession, nullification, and interposition, like the poor, we shall always have with us. These are…John DevannyJune 10, 2019
Blog The Southern Tradition Promotes Domestic Peace I want to tell you a story that you won’t read in the mainstream news.…Marcus Ruiz EvansJune 3, 2019
Blog Think Progress Publishes Fake News We hear a lot about “fake news” these days. Until I was its victim, I…Allen MendenhallMay 20, 2019
Blog The Procrustean Constitution We have seen how Mississippi, with its campus free speech bill, totally ignored its own…Walt GarlingtonMay 15, 2019
Blog Is Secession the Answer? Watching NBC’s TODAY program on Tuesday, January 23, 2019, there was anchor Savannah Guthrie demanding…Boyd CatheyFebruary 4, 2019
Blog The Southern Critique of Centralization The Southern political tradition, in practice and theory, is one of its most valuable contributions…Donald LivingstonJanuary 28, 2019
Blog We the People of South Carolina…. William Plumer Jacobs (1842-1917), a native of Yorkville, South Carolina, was a Presbyterian minister and…Karen StokesDecember 20, 2018
Blog What Does the Fracturing of the American Identity Mean for the Southern Tradition? The Abbeville Institute conducted three conferences this year on the fracturing of American national identity…Donald LivingstonDecember 17, 2018
Blog The Problem with Lawyers and the Constitution On November 10, 2018, the Abbeville Institute hosted an event called The Revival of Nullification…Suzanne ShermanDecember 5, 2018
Blog Defusing a Second Civil War Through Peaceful Secession? Secession? Nullification? A second Civil War in the presently not-so United States of America? According…Matthew SilberNovember 15, 2018
Blog The Southern Political Tradition is Winning Nationalist Jeff Sessions gets canned and a nullifier takes his job. This is actually an…Brion McClanahanNovember 14, 2018
Review Posts From Founding Fathers to Fire Eaters A review of From Founding Fathers to Fire-Eaters: The Constitutional Doctrine of States’ Rights in…John DevannyOctober 30, 2018
Blog Could “Calexit” Create a Left-Right Confederacy? “Politics makes for strange bedfellows.” The 2016 Presidential election of Donald Trump produced the wedding…James Ronald KennedyOctober 22, 2018
Blog A Red and Blue Coalition? On June 20, 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Crawford: “If any state in the…Donald LivingstonOctober 15, 2018
Blog Nullification and Secession: Solutions or Talking Points? Many of us in the South have maintained our faith in the Constitutional right of…James Ronald KennedySeptember 3, 2018
Blog Colonel Baldwin Meets Mr. Lincoln This essay is Chapter 13 in Mr. Taylor's Union At All Costs: From Confederation to…John M. TaylorJuly 30, 2018
Blog Sam Houston and Texas Secession "Lincoln, under no circumstances, would I vote for ... So, I say, stand by the…Vito MussomeliJuly 12, 2018
Blog Was Lee a Traitor? Were Robert E. Lee and the Confederates “traitors” who violated their oaths to the Constitution…Boyd CatheyJune 18, 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
Review Posts Is Secession Treason? A review of With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era…Brion McClanahanJune 12, 2018
Blog The Only Way to Drain the Swamp “When you are up to your hindquarters in alligators—it is hard to remember that your…James Ronald KennedyMay 28, 2018
Blog That Embarrassing Analogy Is there a genuine analogy between the secession of South Carolina from the USA and…Sheldon VanaukenMay 11, 2018
Blog The Essex Junto It was the purchase of Louisiana, therefore, which gave impetus to a plan which had…Charles Raymond BrownMay 4, 2018
Review Posts Knights of the Golden Circle A review of Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War by…Joe WolvertonApril 24, 2018
Review Posts Zombies No More: Secession, Nullification, and the Academy A review of Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought. Sanford Levinson, ed. Lawrence, KS:…John DevannyApril 17, 2018
Blog The Lies and Hypocrisy of the Civil War More than 150 years after the Civil War, the nation is engulfed in controversy over…Jacob G. HornbergerJanuary 24, 2018
Review Posts Foundering Inventions A review of Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution by Harry Jafffa, (Regnery,…William J. WatkinsDecember 19, 2017
Blog Through a Lens Darkly There is an old saying in the theater that when one is acting the part…John MarquardtDecember 4, 2017
Blog Slavery and the War The recent apoplexy over White House Chief-of-Staff John Kelly’s comments about Robert E. Lee and…Michael ArmstrongNovember 27, 2017
Blog The Extreme Northern Position If you listen to the modern historical profession, Southern secession in 1861 represented "treason." David…Brion McClanahanNovember 16, 2017
Blog States and Cities Saying “No” to the Feds What was amazing about watching two dozen states and several hundred cities defy Donald Trump’s…Kirkpatrick SaleOctober 12, 2017
Blog The Winds of Change This isn’t 1990. The Winds of Change have stopped blowing. When the Soviets present a…Brion McClanahanOctober 4, 2017
Blog Red States for California Secession California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has given the green light for CalExit proponents to begin…Brion McClanahanAugust 3, 2017
Blog General Lee Figured It Out This piece was originally printed at Fred On Everything. “The consolidation of the states into…Fred ReedJuly 7, 2017
Blog Re-Humanizing Johnny Reb “…You said he's a Confederate general. They're the bad guys. And he's probably racist… We're…Travis ArchieJune 28, 2017
Blog The AP Gets It Wrong…Again In a recent column for the Associated Press, entitled “Old South monument backers embrace Confederate…Carl JonesJune 26, 2017
Review Posts A Question of Sovereignty Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
Blog Let the Bear Flag Go A large portion of California wants to secede. That’s a good thing. American conservatives should…Brion McClanahanFebruary 27, 2017
Blog Conventions: The Voice of the People From the 2016 Abbeville Institute Conference on Nullification, August 13, 2016, Atlanta, GA https://youtu.be/MJftpjmBBFoBrion McClanahanFebruary 3, 2017
Review Posts The Small Nation Manifesto A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it…Thomas NaylorFebruary 1, 2017
Blog Never the North, Always the South "I think every heritage has things that are good about it, every heritage has things…Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 31, 2017
Blog Calexit: California, Adios! It seems that out in California an impressively large number of people are petitioning for…Clyde WilsonJanuary 30, 2017
Blog Robert E. Lee: American Hero Several years ago, leftist blowhard Richard Cohen at the Washington Post wrote that Robert E.…Brion McClanahanJanuary 19, 2017
Blog A State of Mind On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Second…John MarquardtJanuary 5, 2017
Blog See ya–Signed C.S.A. A fellow by the name of Marcus Ruiz Evans was on Fox’s Tucker Carlson program…Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 2, 2017
Blog Waving the Secede Flag–How to Regain State’s Rights Dr. Jeffrey Addicott on "Waving the Secede Flag--How to Regain State's Rights" at the August…Jeffrey AddicottDecember 26, 2016
Blog “Rational People” Now Want Secession According to Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, secession is now being advocated by "rational people,…Brion McClanahanDecember 7, 2016
Review Posts A Miscarriage of Justice "Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” wrote Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway in 1775.…Ryan WaltersDecember 5, 2016
Blog Save Federalism, Save the Electoral College Discussing immigration and sanctuary cities, Bill O'Reilly began speaking of the coming clash of two…Vito MussomeliDecember 1, 2016
Blog Trump Wins–Secession Back in Style Only days after Donald Trump’s victory there were already calls for secession arising from liberal…James Ronald KennedyNovember 22, 2016
Blog Rebel Redux Rumblings of open rebellion were in the air . . . a certain group within…John MarquardtNovember 14, 2016
Blog Why No Southern Nationalism? In the Partisan's last issue, I raised the question of why the United States has…John Shelton ReedNovember 11, 2016
Blog #Calexit Donald Trump won and California wants to secede. Mises Institute President Jeff Deist tweeted during…Brion McClanahanNovember 10, 2016
Blog An Agrarian-Style Economic Self Defense Plan This essay was originally published at The Deliberate Agrarian. It occurred to me today that…Herrick KimballOctober 27, 2016
Blog Nullification vs. Secession? On the 21st of this June, Americans celebrated the 228th anniversary of the nation’s Constitution,…John MarquardtOctober 13, 2016
Review Posts Rethinking the War for the 21st Century (13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
Blog The Great Divide–And Secession? Of all the phenomena the 2016 election year has demonstrated, none is greater than the…Kirkpatrick SaleSeptember 12, 2016
Blog Decentralization For Humanity’s Sake The Roman historian Titus Livius once called Rome “the greatest nation in the world.” He…Brion McClanahanSeptember 9, 2016
Blog Secession Without Civil War Since most modern historians agree that the South seceded to protect slavery they often conclude…Philip LeighSeptember 2, 2016
Review Posts The South as an Independent Nation This article was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1997. "Being a Southerner is…William CawthonSeptember 1, 2016
Review Posts The Tariff and Other Tales from Alabama My friends, there is one issue before you, and to all sensible men but one…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 1, 2016
Blog Do Motives Matter? A friend of mine is translating a book on Lincoln written by Karl Marx. Her…Valerie ProtopapasJuly 25, 2016
Review Posts The Free State of Jones: History or Hollywood? Hollywood has struck again with another “Civil War” movie that, unsurprisingly as it may seem,…Ryan WaltersJuly 12, 2016
Blog A Book for a Southerner’s Bookshelf Recently a commencement speaker exhorted graduating students to "be on the right side of history."…Gail JarvisJuly 7, 2016
Blog Brexit: Dividing the Indivisible REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth In his first Inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln explained his moral justification for invading…Donald LivingstonJune 28, 2016
Blog More Secession Theology: Thomas Smyth of Charleston Lately there has been mention of Dr. Thomas Smyth in two Abbeville Institute blog and…Karen StokesJune 23, 2016
Blog What Lincoln’s Election Meant to South Carolina This essay was originally published at TheImagninativeConservative.org and is republished here by permission. The finest…Bradley J. BirzerJune 16, 2016
Review Posts The Theology of Secession At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the…M.E. BradfordJune 14, 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
Blog Long Live the Flags of Dixie! This piece was originally printed at AntoniusAquinas.com. On May 19, the House of Reprehensibles passed…Antonius AquinasMay 31, 2016
Blog Betrayed by Yankees Perverting the Constitution Originally published at Circa1865.com. The presidential messages of Jefferson Davis were filled with assertions of…Bernard ThuersamMay 20, 2016
Blog Hampton Roads: A Twist in the Lincoln Myth According to the standard narrative maintained by the North, Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation brought about…Dave BennerMay 16, 2016
Blog Texas Secession? It may not get anywhere at all, but there are a number of people in…Kirkpatrick SaleApril 25, 2016
Blog Is the Mississippi State Flag “Anti-American”? United States District Judge Carlton Reeves is considering a lawsuit by Mississippi attorney Carlos Moore…Donald LivingstonApril 15, 2016
Blog McWhirter Tries to Strike Back My recent piece on James Ryder Randall, "At Arlington", touched a nerve, at least with…Brion McClanahanApril 12, 2016
Blog Secession Hypocrisy: The Case of West Virginia Many people know that the state of West Virginia came to be during the Civil…Dave BennerMarch 28, 2016
Blog Death is Mercy to Secessionists William T. Sherman viewed Southerners as he later viewed American Indians, to be exterminated or…Bernard ThuersamMarch 21, 2016
Blog Real Federalism: Switzerland With each visit to Switzerland, my understanding and appreciation of the political economy of the…Harry TeasleyMarch 11, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Why The War Was Not About Slavery Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about”…Clyde WilsonMarch 9, 2016
Review Posts The Abolitionist Secessionist? “To live honestly is to hurt no one, and give to every one his due.”-Lysander…Matt De SantiMarch 8, 2016
Review Posts The Principle of Secession Historically Traced This essay is taken from The South in the Building of the Nation Series, Vol.…George PetrieFebruary 11, 2016
Review Posts Stonewall Jackson This essay is excerpted from the Preface to Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier,…James I. Robertson, Jr.January 21, 2016
Blog Rebels of the Golden State On July fourth 1861, Major J.P. Gillis made a public display of his support of…Matt De SantiDecember 28, 2015
Review Posts The Dark Side of Abraham Lincoln By way of prologue, let me say that all of us like the Lincoln whose…Thomas LandessDecember 10, 2015
Blog What Was the Confederacy After All? This article was originally published at lewrockwell.com. In all the recent fuss over symbols of…Kirkpatrick SaleDecember 7, 2015
Review Posts “To the Size of States There Is a Limit”: Measurements for the Success of a State This essay was first published in Don Livingston, ed., Rethinking the American Union for the…Kirkpatrick SaleDecember 3, 2015
Review Posts No Lost Cause A speech delivered in Richmond, VA, February 22, 1896 at the opening of the Museum…Bradley Tyler JohnsonNovember 24, 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
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
Blog Catalonia and the Southern Tradition Catalonia has voted to secede from Spain. This is a remarkable development in modern…Brion McClanahanNovember 16, 2015
Review Posts Robert B. Rhett: Liberty Protected by Law “The one great principle, which produced our secession from the United States – was constitutional…James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 22, 2015
Blog Catalan Independence? An Interview With Marco Bassani This interview was originally published at the Fleming Foundation. Prof. Bassani, there was a mass…Thomas FlemingSeptember 18, 2015
Media Posts What Secession Is Donald Livingston discusses the nature and meaning of secession at the 2003 Abbeville Institute Summer…Donald LivingstonSeptember 16, 2015
Blog Judah P. Benjamin: Able Statesman, Forgotten Patriot If you showed the average American pictures of famous figures from Confederate States of America,…Dave BennerSeptember 4, 2015
Review Posts John C. Calhoun and “State’s Rights” The following is an abridged version of a chapter which will appear in the…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 25, 2015
Blog Secession For The North! Two weeks ago, authorities combing through disgraced former IRS executive Lois Lerner's e-mails released a…Brion McClanahanAugust 24, 2015
Blog Was the Civil War About Slavery? A new video entitled “Was the Civil War About Slavery?” from Prager University is currently…Dave BennerAugust 14, 2015
Blog Will Today’s Activists Be Able To Make Robert E. Lee A Villain? Persons interviewed on those amusing and disturbing videos by satirist Mark Dice, were unaware of…Gail JarvisAugust 13, 2015
Blog The South: The Genesis of American Independence Originally published at www.circa1865.com In 1887 North Carolina’s Lieutenant-General Daniel H. Hill spoke of the…Bernard ThuersamAugust 10, 2015
Blog Another Look at the Confederate Battle Flag Recently Mr. Donald Fraser wrote a column in my hometown newspaper, the Northeast Georgian, titled…Samuel C. SmithAugust 7, 2015
Blog “A Sickness in the Public Mind”: The Battle Flag and the Attack on Western Culture Back in mid-June, after the Charleston shootings, the frenzied hue and cry went up and…Boyd CatheyAugust 4, 2015
Blog The War of Words The guns of the War Between the States fell silent a century and a half…John MarquardtJuly 30, 2015
Blog Think Again, Jeff The “conservative” Boston Globe columnist, Jeff Jacoby, thinks that the Confederate flag is “anti-American,” “an…Jack KerwickJuly 22, 2015
Blog The Flag Controversy: We Did It To Ourselves Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain must think, and hide the…John DevannyJune 26, 2015
Review Posts Abel P. Upshur This essay is published in honor of Abel P. Upshur's birthday, June 17, 1790. Today,…James Rutledge RoeschJune 17, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Goodbye to Gold and Glory “The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
Review Posts The Old and the New South Delivered as the commencement address for South Carolina College, 1887. What theme is most fitting…John Randolph TuckerJune 11, 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
Blog Kent Brown and Sharpsburg After my last trip to Gettysburg with Kent Masterson Brown, I could hardly wait for…James Rutledge RoeschMay 4, 2015
Blog Yet Another Uneducated, Baseless Attack on the South A so-called "writer" for al.com, Charles J. Dean, in an article entitled Today Alabama officially…Carl JonesApril 30, 2015
Blog Post Appomattox Fallacies Justifying Federal Tyranny “We the people” of Dixie are in a unique position in today’s America. We are,…James Ronald KennedyApril 23, 2015
Review Posts Does the Just War Tradition Need Selective Conscientious Objection? INTRODUCTION It is dangerous to attempt an article on a topic so relevant and current.…Jacob ShatzerApril 21, 2015
Blog The Eternal ‘Rebel Yell’ Recently, a friend sent me a link on the Smithsonian web site to a 1930…Boyd CatheyMarch 26, 2015
Review Posts Leopold Kohr: Prophet of a Coming Decentralization? The time is ripe for a rediscovery of Leopold Kohr. Or perhaps better: the time…Steven YatesMarch 24, 2015
Blog “United States ‘History’ as the Yankee Makes and Takes It” John Cussons had enough. It was 1897, and for thirty-two years he had watched as…Brion McClanahanMarch 13, 2015
Review Posts A Sympathy for Disunion A Sympathy for Disunion "This, Mr. President, is not a government founded upon compact; it…Vito MussomeliFebruary 24, 2015
Media Posts Secession: The American Tradition Abbeville Institute Scholar Brion McClanahan argues that secession is the American tradition at the Houston…Brion McClanahanJanuary 30, 2015
Blog Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson This essay is part of the chapter "Southerners" in Brion McClanahan's The Politically Incorrect Guide…Brion McClanahanJanuary 21, 2015
Review Posts The Cause of Jackson and Lee Delivered at the Blount County Courthouse, January 19, 2015. Robert E. Lee said “Everyone…Carl JonesJanuary 21, 2015
Review Posts The Despot’s Heel Was On Thy Shore Maryland is steeped in the history of the American Union. She fiercely defended her position…Scott StrzelczykJanuary 6, 2015
Blog Faithless Government Robert Barnwell Rhett, born on December 21, 1800, is remembered as one of the foremost…Brion McClanahanDecember 22, 2014
Review Posts The Transformation of American Citizenship via the Crucible of War Citizenship in these United States has consistently been in a transformative mode. From early American…Marshall DeRosaDecember 3, 2014
Blog The Underlying Realities of Obama’s Amnesty Focusing on the cultural, political and economic long-term consequences of President Obama’s amnesty executive action…Marshall DeRosaNovember 24, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part VIII It is the very genius of a consolidated Government to elevate one portion of the…Clyde WilsonNovember 21, 2014
Blog The Left Needs Secession, Too Self government and the secession required for it in oversized States are as much a…Donald LivingstonNovember 18, 2014
Blog Forty-eight Years as a Southern Nationalist “Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war!” Occasionally a scene or event will…Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyOctober 27, 2014
Blog The Secessionist States of America This article originally appeared on LewRockwell.com. For years those who advocated even a scholarly examination…Brion McClanahanOctober 17, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners Part V I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
Blog Fortress Dixie Protecting Our People in the Era of Islamic Terror & Ebola Within a few days…James Ronald KennedyOctober 15, 2014
Blog Secession: Remedy for Federal Empires Endless No-Win Wars As the first American bombs begin to rain down on mud and adobe structures in…James Ronald KennedyOctober 13, 2014
Blog We Need No Declaration of Independence Many current Americans, indeed perhaps most, regard the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861…Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2014
Blog Ron Paul and Secession Redux? Ron Paul recently opined about Scotland’s recent flirtation with seceding from the United Kingdom. He…Marshall DeRosaOctober 3, 2014
Blog The Constitution and Secession The Scottish secession vote has led to a great number of pieces about the future…Brion McClanahanSeptember 26, 2014
Blog FAQs for the New Confederate States of America Scotland has certainly lit the fire under a lot of folks who are warming to…Tom DanielSeptember 24, 2014
Blog Scottish Secession and American Self-Government Ladies and Gentlemen, Scotland voted "No" to independence. The media will have you believe this…Donald LivingstonSeptember 22, 2014
Blog Free Scotland! Scotland votes on independence from the United Kingdom today. I’ll be rooting very hard for…Dan E. PhillipsSeptember 18, 2014
Blog Vote Wallace and Bruce! When the Scottish Parliament voted to join the English Parliament in 1707, it seemed the…Donald LivingstonSeptember 17, 2014
Review Posts Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred so much of the President's Message…Confederate States of AmericaSeptember 4, 2014
Blog Stewart, the Judge, and the Tariff In March, 2014, the Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart had Judge Andrew Napolitano of…Brion McClanahanSeptember 4, 2014
Blog State’s Rights Did Not Cause the War “The Civil War was fought over slavery.” If you want verification of this “known” fact,…James Ronald KennedySeptember 2, 2014
Blog Southerners Not Welcome California AB 2444 has cleared all legislative hurdles by overwhelming majorities (71 to 1 in…Marshall DeRosaAugust 28, 2014
Blog Righteous Cause Mythology From April to July of 1863 British Lieutenant Colonel Arthur J. L. Fremantle visited all…Philip LeighAugust 26, 2014
Media Posts A Discussion on the Southern Tradition Abbeville President Don Livingston talks to Tom Woods about the Southern tradition, secession, and the…Donald LivingstonAugust 24, 2014
Blog The Dix Note and Southern Freedom While cleaning my study the other day I ran across my copy of a $10.00…James Ronald KennedyAugust 18, 2014
Review Posts John C. Calhoun: Nullification, Secession, Constitution "The confederation has been formed by the free will of the states. If today one…Marco BassaniAugust 8, 2014
Blog Why the South Seceded Writing in 1913, historian Nathaniel Wright Stephenson explained the political situation in America thus: “It…Karen StokesAugust 5, 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 David Hume, Republicanism, and the Human Scale of Political Order Aristotle taught that "To the size of states there is a limit, as there is…Donald LivingstonJuly 22, 2014
Blog The Republic of Alabama The Republic of Alabama existed for a little less than a month in 1861. When…Brion McClanahanJune 24, 2014
Blog Bellamy’s Pledge The Pledge of Allegiance is neither a sacred American tradition nor a patriotic duty, but…James Rutledge RoeschJune 18, 2014
Blog Ukrainian Dixie Flag When the fascist regime ruling Ukraine banned the use of the Russian language, arrested Ukrainians…James Rutledge RoeschJune 13, 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
Review Posts Caveat, America, Emptor Probably no man in America in 1800 knew more about, or cared more passionately for,…Kirkpatrick SaleMay 27, 2014
Blog Cheesehead Secessionists In April, several members of the Wisconsin Republican Party inserted a resolution in the State…Brion McClanahanMay 22, 2014
Blog Cheesehead Secessionists In April, several members of the Wisconsin Republican Party inserted a resolution in the State…Brion McClanahanMay 22, 2014
Media Posts A Plea for the Real Union This lecture was delivered at the 1995 Ludvig von Mises seminar "Secession, State, and Economy"…Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2014
Media Posts Is America Too Big? Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNd7h0fsdEDonald LivingstonMarch 31, 2014
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