From the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School. So, our friend Don Livingston asked me to…
Marco BassaniOctober 3, 2022
By early January 1861, South Carolina had seceded from the Union and stood alone as…
Ryan WaltersAugust 9, 2022
In 1859 the Union of American States entered the final stages of its greatest crisis,…
Ryan WaltersAugust 2, 2022
A review of The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals (Regnery History, 2022) by Samuel Mitcham The…
Jeff WolvertonJuly 21, 2022
From the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School. St. George Tucker is a significant member of…
Clyde WilsonJuly 18, 2022
On March 7, 1862, Lincoln sent to congress and congress passed a joint resolution offering…
Rod O'BarrJune 10, 2022
Now, after what may have been a racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo (May 14) by…
Boyd CatheyMay 17, 2022
Mr. President--I fully concur with the gentleman from Montgomery, in the propriety of immediately passing…
Lewis M. StoneApril 20, 2022
A line from Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” In the case of the great…
John MarquardtApril 12, 2022
To begin with, it is hornbook law* that the signatories to any contract or compact,…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 7, 2022
At the writing of this article, the ongoing struggle between Ukraine and Russia has most…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyMarch 23, 2022
Part 3 in Clyde Wilson's series "African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective." Read Part 1 and…
Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2022
Delivered at the 2013 Abbeville Institute Summer School. What I want to do is thoroughly…
William WilsonMarch 8, 2022
ACADEMIA'S ABSOLUTE PROOF that the War Between the States was fought over slavery is based…
Gene Kizer, Jr.February 25, 2022
A review of How Radical Republican Antislavery Rhetoric and Violence Precipitated Secession, October 1859 -…
John DevannyFebruary 15, 2022
After 200 years of digesting Enlightenment ideals of natural rights, and reciting a pledge that…
Rod O'BarrJanuary 12, 2022
But most significant of all was the attitude assumed by the Federal Government in dealing…
William Edward Hartpole LeckyJanuary 11, 2022
A few more words, and we shall be in a condition to answer the question…
Raphael SemmesDecember 1, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life (Random House, 2021) by Allen Guelzo “How…
Casey ChalkNovember 23, 2021
By 1860 our country was so hopelessly divided that it broke up, and only by…
M.C. AtkinsNovember 17, 2021
Missouri celebrated her 160th anniversary of her secession from the Union on October 28. It…
Wes FranklinNovember 4, 2021
Critical to the debate regarding the right of secession is where, in the minds of…
Rod O'BarrNovember 3, 2021
It has become fashionable to bash the South - not only by removing war memorials…
Rev. Larry BeaneOctober 28, 2021
The delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, presumptuously shelving that…
J.L. BennettOctober 22, 2021
A review of When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern…
Terry HulseyOctober 19, 2021
A review of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect…
Terry HulseySeptember 14, 2021
THOMAS JEFFERSON TO ROGER C. WEIGHTMAN MONTICELLO, June 24, 1826. RESPECTED SIR: The kind invitation…
Thomas JeffersonSeptember 2, 2021
That Southern secession was ultimately about independence with or without slavery is easily determined by…
Rod O'BarrAugust 12, 2021
I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2021
John Taylor was born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1750, one year before James Madison,…
Gaillard HuntJuly 28, 2021
A review of Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (University Press of Kansas,…
Terry HulseyJune 29, 2021
Original in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. First some context. The South did…
Rod O'BarrJune 11, 2021
Nearly two weeks ago, five counties in Oregon voted to approve a measure to secede…
Cole BranhamJune 4, 2021
And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crimeAre pronest to it, and impute themselves…Tennyson,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 3, 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
A review of Secession, State & Liberty, (Transaction, 1998) edited with an introduction by David…
Terry HulseyMay 18, 2021
On the Ingraham Angle recently, guest, Craig Shirley offered an opinion that should cheer the…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 7, 2021
A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. A…
Terry HulseyMarch 23, 2021
A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. American…
Terry HulseyFebruary 23, 2021
Early in the civil war President Lincoln had Federal Troops occupy the State of Maryland. …
Paul CallahanJanuary 8, 2021
The red and the blue—states that is-- are as different as the colorless black and…
Paul H. YarbroughDecember 14, 2020
Secession: The point of the spear aimed at the heart of the American Leviathan –…
Terry HulseyNovember 20, 2020
As of Friday, November 6, the votes are still being counted in at least six…
Boyd CatheyNovember 9, 2020
The United States acquired a vast area of the Southwest with the Treaty of Guadalupe…
Steve LeeOctober 22, 2020
A review of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020)…
Donald LivingstonOctober 20, 2020
Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each…
Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2020
What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of…
Valerie ProtopapasOctober 14, 2020
Since 2015, it has become standard fare for the left to accuse President Trump of…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 7, 2020
Antebellum California secession is a little known topic, but the Southern portion of the State…
Justin PedersonOctober 1, 2020
Recently an acquaintance of mine remarked that the Confederate statue in her hometown should be…
Earl StarbuckSeptember 18, 2020
A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they…
Philip LeighSeptember 16, 2020
Edmund Ruffin, the consummate Fire-Eater, was far greater than the sum of his parts; as…
Neil KumarAugust 26, 2020
Northern secession was openly in the political brew again. Eleven (11) years before, Jefferson had…
Vito MussomeliJuly 31, 2020
Increasingly, I try to avoid news-binging, watching assiduously all the compiled, feculent bilge that passes…
Boyd CatheyJune 2, 2020
“Where you gonna be when half of California riots? Where you gonna run to when…
Brion McClanahanMarch 23, 2020
Estimates of the number of South Vietnamese civilian casualties during the U.S. war in Vietnam…
Norman BlackMarch 20, 2020
The American story is a story of secession, or better still secessions. The first permanent…
John DevannyFebruary 12, 2020
A review of Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered (ISI Books, 2006)…
Kirkpatrick SaleFebruary 11, 2020
American political theater has become the most entertaining show in town. Trump refuses to shake…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 6, 2020
Not that long ago, it seems, Congressional Democrats were calling the Constitution an outdated impediment…
J.L. BennettJanuary 10, 2020
A photograph of the University of Mississippi Majorettes graced the cover of the September 24,…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 6, 2020
The beginning of the American political order goes much further back than the Philadelphia Convention…
John DevannyNovember 20, 2019
Confederate statue critics increasingly argue that the monuments should be torn down because they honor…
Philip LeighNovember 13, 2019
One of the most enduring myths of American history centers on the “compact theory” of…
Brion McClanahanNovember 6, 2019
A review of The Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic States (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,…
Vito MussomeliOctober 29, 2019
In his recent book, Call Sign Chaos : Learning To Lead, former Secretary of Defense…
John MarquardtSeptember 11, 2019
Leaders of every nation do what they think is in their countries’ immediate best interest…
Norman BlackSeptember 5, 2019
On May 17, 2019, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 5: Equality Act—better…
James Ronald KennedyAugust 29, 2019
In a recent column, “Nationalism vs. Secession: Should America Break Up? (July 27), I included…
Boyd CatheyAugust 19, 2019
There is a question that increasingly arises, uncomfortably, in our conversations…from brief exchanges at work…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2019
Secession, nullification, and interposition, like the poor, we shall always have with us. These are…
John DevannyJune 10, 2019
I want to tell you a story that you won’t read in the mainstream news.…
Marcus Ruiz EvansJune 3, 2019
We have seen how Mississippi, with its campus free speech bill, totally ignored its own…
Walt GarlingtonMay 15, 2019
Watching NBC’s TODAY program on Tuesday, January 23, 2019, there was anchor Savannah Guthrie demanding…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 4, 2019
The Southern political tradition, in practice and theory, is one of its most valuable contributions…
Donald LivingstonJanuary 28, 2019
William Plumer Jacobs (1842-1917), a native of Yorkville, South Carolina, was a Presbyterian minister and…
Karen StokesDecember 20, 2018
The Abbeville Institute conducted three conferences this year on the fracturing of American national identity…
Donald LivingstonDecember 17, 2018
On November 10, 2018, the Abbeville Institute hosted an event called The Revival of Nullification…
Suzanne ShermanDecember 5, 2018
Secession? Nullification? A second Civil War in the presently not-so United States of America? According…
Matthew SilberNovember 15, 2018
Nationalist Jeff Sessions gets canned and a nullifier takes his job. This is actually an…
Brion McClanahanNovember 14, 2018
A review of From Founding Fathers to Fire-Eaters: The Constitutional Doctrine of States’ Rights in…
John DevannyOctober 30, 2018
“Politics makes for strange bedfellows.” The 2016 Presidential election of Donald Trump produced the wedding…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 22, 2018
On June 20, 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Crawford: “If any state in the…
Donald LivingstonOctober 15, 2018
Many of us in the South have maintained our faith in the Constitutional right of…
James Ronald KennedySeptember 3, 2018
This essay is Chapter 13 in Mr. Taylor's Union At All Costs: From Confederation to…
John M. TaylorJuly 30, 2018
"Lincoln, under no circumstances, would I vote for ... So, I say, stand by the…
Vito MussomeliJuly 12, 2018
Were Robert E. Lee and the Confederates “traitors” who violated their oaths to the Constitution…
Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2018
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
“When you are up to your hindquarters in alligators—it is hard to remember that your…
James Ronald KennedyMay 28, 2018
Is there a genuine analogy between the secession of South Carolina from the USA and…
Sheldon VanaukenMay 11, 2018
It was the purchase of Louisiana, therefore, which gave impetus to a plan which had…
Charles Raymond BrownMay 4, 2018
A review of Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War by…
Joe WolvertonApril 24, 2018
A review of Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought. Sanford Levinson, ed. Lawrence, KS:…
John DevannyApril 17, 2018
More than 150 years after the Civil War, the nation is engulfed in controversy over…
Jacob G. HornbergerJanuary 24, 2018
A review of Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution by Harry Jafffa, (Regnery,…
William J. WatkinsDecember 19, 2017
There is an old saying in the theater that when one is acting the part…
John MarquardtDecember 4, 2017
The recent apoplexy over White House Chief-of-Staff John Kelly’s comments about Robert E. Lee and…
Michael ArmstrongNovember 27, 2017
If you listen to the modern historical profession, Southern secession in 1861 represented "treason." David…
Brion McClanahanNovember 16, 2017
What was amazing about watching two dozen states and several hundred cities defy Donald Trump’s…
Kirkpatrick SaleOctober 12, 2017
This isn’t 1990. The Winds of Change have stopped blowing. When the Soviets present a…
Brion McClanahanOctober 4, 2017
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has given the green light for CalExit proponents to begin…
Brion McClanahanAugust 3, 2017
This piece was originally printed at Fred On Everything. “The consolidation of the states into…
Fred ReedJuly 7, 2017
“…You said he's a Confederate general. They're the bad guys. And he's probably racist… We're…
Travis ArchieJune 28, 2017
In a recent column for the Associated Press, entitled “Old South monument backers embrace Confederate…
Carl JonesJune 26, 2017
Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…
Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
A large portion of California wants to secede. That’s a good thing. American conservatives should…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 27, 2017
From the 2016 Abbeville Institute Conference on Nullification, August 13, 2016, Atlanta, GA https://youtu.be/MJftpjmBBFo
Brion McClanahanFebruary 3, 2017
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it…
Thomas NaylorFebruary 1, 2017
"I think every heritage has things that are good about it, every heritage has things…
Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 31, 2017
It seems that out in California an impressively large number of people are petitioning for…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 30, 2017
Several years ago, leftist blowhard Richard Cohen at the Washington Post wrote that Robert E.…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 19, 2017
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Second…
John MarquardtJanuary 5, 2017
A fellow by the name of Marcus Ruiz Evans was on Fox’s Tucker Carlson program…
Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 2, 2017
Dr. Jeffrey Addicott on "Waving the Secede Flag--How to Regain State's Rights" at the August…
Jeffrey AddicottDecember 26, 2016
According to Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, secession is now being advocated by "rational people,…
Brion McClanahanDecember 7, 2016
"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” wrote Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway in 1775.…
Ryan WaltersDecember 5, 2016
Discussing immigration and sanctuary cities, Bill O'Reilly began speaking of the coming clash of two…
Vito MussomeliDecember 1, 2016
Only days after Donald Trump’s victory there were already calls for secession arising from liberal…
James Ronald KennedyNovember 22, 2016
Rumblings of open rebellion were in the air . . . a certain group within…
John MarquardtNovember 14, 2016
In the Partisan's last issue, I raised the question of why the United States has…
John Shelton ReedNovember 11, 2016
Donald Trump won and California wants to secede. Mises Institute President Jeff Deist tweeted during…
Brion McClanahanNovember 10, 2016
This essay was originally published at The Deliberate Agrarian. It occurred to me today that…
Herrick KimballOctober 27, 2016
On the 21st of this June, Americans celebrated the 228th anniversary of the nation’s Constitution,…
John MarquardtOctober 13, 2016
(13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
Of all the phenomena the 2016 election year has demonstrated, none is greater than the…
Kirkpatrick SaleSeptember 12, 2016
The Roman historian Titus Livius once called Rome “the greatest nation in the world.” He…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 9, 2016
Since most modern historians agree that the South seceded to protect slavery they often conclude…
Philip LeighSeptember 2, 2016
This article was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1997. "Being a Southerner is…
William CawthonSeptember 1, 2016
My friends, there is one issue before you, and to all sensible men but one…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 1, 2016
A friend of mine is translating a book on Lincoln written by Karl Marx. Her…
Valerie ProtopapasJuly 25, 2016
Hollywood has struck again with another “Civil War” movie that, unsurprisingly as it may seem,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 12, 2016
Recently a commencement speaker exhorted graduating students to "be on the right side of history."…
Gail JarvisJuly 7, 2016
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth In his first Inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln explained his moral justification for invading…
Donald LivingstonJune 28, 2016
Lately there has been mention of Dr. Thomas Smyth in two Abbeville Institute blog and…
Karen StokesJune 23, 2016
This essay was originally published at TheImagninativeConservative.org and is republished here by permission. The finest…
Bradley J. BirzerJune 16, 2016
At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the…
M.E. BradfordJune 14, 2016
This piece is published in honor of Davis's birthday, June 3. With unaffected distrust of…
Charles Betts GallowayJune 3, 2016
This piece was originally printed at AntoniusAquinas.com. On May 19, the House of Reprehensibles passed…
Antonius AquinasMay 31, 2016
Originally published at Circa1865.com. The presidential messages of Jefferson Davis were filled with assertions of…
Bernard ThuersamMay 20, 2016
According to the standard narrative maintained by the North, Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation brought about…
Dave BennerMay 16, 2016
United States District Judge Carlton Reeves is considering a lawsuit by Mississippi attorney Carlos Moore…
Donald LivingstonApril 15, 2016
My recent piece on James Ryder Randall, "At Arlington", touched a nerve, at least with…
Brion McClanahanApril 12, 2016
Many people know that the state of West Virginia came to be during the Civil…
Dave BennerMarch 28, 2016
William T. Sherman viewed Southerners as he later viewed American Indians, to be exterminated or…
Bernard ThuersamMarch 21, 2016
With each visit to Switzerland, my understanding and appreciation of the political economy of the…
Harry TeasleyMarch 11, 2016
Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about”…
Clyde WilsonMarch 9, 2016
“To live honestly is to hurt no one, and give to every one his due.”-Lysander…
Matt De SantiMarch 8, 2016
This essay is taken from The South in the Building of the Nation Series, Vol.…
George PetrieFebruary 11, 2016
This essay is excerpted from the Preface to Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier,…
James I. Robertson, Jr.January 21, 2016
On July fourth 1861, Major J.P. Gillis made a public display of his support of…
Matt De SantiDecember 28, 2015
By way of prologue, let me say that all of us like the Lincoln whose…
Thomas LandessDecember 10, 2015
This article was originally published at lewrockwell.com. In all the recent fuss over symbols of…
Kirkpatrick SaleDecember 7, 2015
This essay was first published in Don Livingston, ed., Rethinking the American Union for the…
Kirkpatrick SaleDecember 3, 2015
A speech delivered in Richmond, VA, February 22, 1896 at the opening of the Museum…
Bradley Tyler JohnsonNovember 24, 2015
This article was originally printed in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran Magazine. In…
Boyd CatheyNovember 19, 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
Catalonia has voted to secede from Spain. This is a remarkable development in modern…
Brion McClanahanNovember 16, 2015
“The one great principle, which produced our secession from the United States – was constitutional…
James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 22, 2015
This interview was originally published at the Fleming Foundation. Prof. Bassani, there was a mass…
Thomas FlemingSeptember 18, 2015
Donald Livingston discusses the nature and meaning of secession at the 2003 Abbeville Institute Summer…
Donald LivingstonSeptember 16, 2015
If you showed the average American pictures of famous figures from Confederate States of America,…
Dave BennerSeptember 4, 2015
The following is an abridged version of a chapter which will appear in the…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 25, 2015
Two weeks ago, authorities combing through disgraced former IRS executive Lois Lerner's e-mails released a…
Brion McClanahanAugust 24, 2015
A new video entitled “Was the Civil War About Slavery?” from Prager University is currently…
Dave BennerAugust 14, 2015
Persons interviewed on those amusing and disturbing videos by satirist Mark Dice, were unaware of…
Gail JarvisAugust 13, 2015
Originally published at www.circa1865.com In 1887 North Carolina’s Lieutenant-General Daniel H. Hill spoke of the…
Bernard ThuersamAugust 10, 2015
Recently Mr. Donald Fraser wrote a column in my hometown newspaper, the Northeast Georgian, titled…
Samuel C. SmithAugust 7, 2015
Back in mid-June, after the Charleston shootings, the frenzied hue and cry went up and…
Boyd CatheyAugust 4, 2015
The “conservative” Boston Globe columnist, Jeff Jacoby, thinks that the Confederate flag is “anti-American,” “an…
Jack KerwickJuly 22, 2015
Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain must think, and hide the…
John DevannyJune 26, 2015
This essay is published in honor of Abel P. Upshur's birthday, June 17, 1790. Today,…
James Rutledge RoeschJune 17, 2015
“The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
Delivered as the commencement address for South Carolina College, 1887. What theme is most fitting…
John Randolph TuckerJune 11, 2015
Jefferson Davis delivered this message to the Confederate Congress on 18 February 1861. GENTLEMEN OF…
Jefferson DavisJune 5, 2015
After my last trip to Gettysburg with Kent Masterson Brown, I could hardly wait for…
James Rutledge RoeschMay 4, 2015
A so-called "writer" for al.com, Charles J. Dean, in an article entitled Today Alabama officially…
Carl JonesApril 30, 2015
“We the people” of Dixie are in a unique position in today’s America. We are,…
James Ronald KennedyApril 23, 2015
INTRODUCTION It is dangerous to attempt an article on a topic so relevant and current.…
Jacob ShatzerApril 21, 2015
The time is ripe for a rediscovery of Leopold Kohr. Or perhaps better: the time…
Steven YatesMarch 24, 2015
John Cussons had enough. It was 1897, and for thirty-two years he had watched as…
Brion McClanahanMarch 13, 2015
A Sympathy for Disunion "This, Mr. President, is not a government founded upon compact; it…
Vito MussomeliFebruary 24, 2015
Abbeville Institute Scholar Brion McClanahan argues that secession is the American tradition at the Houston…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 30, 2015
This essay is part of the chapter "Southerners" in Brion McClanahan's The Politically Incorrect Guide…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 21, 2015
Delivered at the Blount County Courthouse, January 19, 2015. Robert E. Lee said “Everyone…
Carl JonesJanuary 21, 2015
Maryland is steeped in the history of the American Union. She fiercely defended her position…
Scott StrzelczykJanuary 6, 2015
Robert Barnwell Rhett, born on December 21, 1800, is remembered as one of the foremost…
Brion McClanahanDecember 22, 2014
Citizenship in these United States has consistently been in a transformative mode. From early American…
Marshall DeRosaDecember 3, 2014
Focusing on the cultural, political and economic long-term consequences of President Obama’s amnesty executive action…
Marshall DeRosaNovember 24, 2014
It is the very genius of a consolidated Government to elevate one portion of the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 21, 2014
Self government and the secession required for it in oversized States are as much a…
Donald LivingstonNovember 18, 2014
“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war!” Occasionally a scene or event will…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyOctober 27, 2014
This article originally appeared on LewRockwell.com. For years those who advocated even a scholarly examination…
Brion McClanahanOctober 17, 2014
I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…
Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
Protecting Our People in the Era of Islamic Terror & Ebola Within a few days…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 15, 2014
As the first American bombs begin to rain down on mud and adobe structures in…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 13, 2014
Many current Americans, indeed perhaps most, regard the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861…
Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2014
Ron Paul recently opined about Scotland’s recent flirtation with seceding from the United Kingdom. He…
Marshall DeRosaOctober 3, 2014
The Scottish secession vote has led to a great number of pieces about the future…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 26, 2014
Scotland has certainly lit the fire under a lot of folks who are warming to…
Tom DanielSeptember 24, 2014
Ladies and Gentlemen, Scotland voted "No" to independence. The media will have you believe this…
Donald LivingstonSeptember 22, 2014
Scotland votes on independence from the United Kingdom today. I’ll be rooting very hard for…
Dan E. PhillipsSeptember 18, 2014
When the Scottish Parliament voted to join the English Parliament in 1707, it seemed the…
Donald LivingstonSeptember 17, 2014
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred so much of the President's Message…
Confederate States of AmericaSeptember 4, 2014
In March, 2014, the Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart had Judge Andrew Napolitano of…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 4, 2014
“The Civil War was fought over slavery.” If you want verification of this “known” fact,…
James Ronald KennedySeptember 2, 2014
California AB 2444 has cleared all legislative hurdles by overwhelming majorities (71 to 1 in…
Marshall DeRosaAugust 28, 2014
From April to July of 1863 British Lieutenant Colonel Arthur J. L. Fremantle visited all…
Philip LeighAugust 26, 2014
Abbeville President Don Livingston talks to Tom Woods about the Southern tradition, secession, and the…
Donald LivingstonAugust 24, 2014
While cleaning my study the other day I ran across my copy of a $10.00…
James Ronald KennedyAugust 18, 2014
"The confederation has been formed by the free will of the states. If today one…
Marco BassaniAugust 8, 2014
Writing in 1913, historian Nathaniel Wright Stephenson explained the political situation in America thus: “It…
Karen StokesAugust 5, 2014
The introduction to Mike Church's edited volume of Albert Taylor Bledsoe's masterful work, Is Davis…
Brion McClanahanJuly 23, 2014
Aristotle taught that "To the size of states there is a limit, as there is…
Donald LivingstonJuly 22, 2014
The Republic of Alabama existed for a little less than a month in 1861. When…
Brion McClanahanJune 24, 2014
The Pledge of Allegiance is neither a sacred American tradition nor a patriotic duty, but…
James Rutledge RoeschJune 18, 2014
When the fascist regime ruling Ukraine banned the use of the Russian language, arrested Ukrainians…
James Rutledge RoeschJune 13, 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
Probably no man in America in 1800 knew more about, or cared more passionately for,…
Kirkpatrick SaleMay 27, 2014
In April, several members of the Wisconsin Republican Party inserted a resolution in the State…
Brion McClanahanMay 22, 2014
In April, several members of the Wisconsin Republican Party inserted a resolution in the State…
Brion McClanahanMay 22, 2014
This lecture was delivered at the 1995 Ludvig von Mises seminar "Secession, State, and Economy"…
Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2014
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