X. American Heroes Originally published as “A Note on American Heroes” in the Southern Review…
Chase SteelyOctober 7, 2022
I write a lot about the South. But then it seems necessary if you think…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 30, 2022
Tom Daniel discusses blues music, from the 2022 Abbeville Institute Summer School at Seabrook Island,…
Tom DanielSeptember 29, 2022
Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina was arguably one of the most important political figures…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 27, 2022
A while back, some of the folks at Abbeville Institute turned out a fine anthology…
John MarquardtSeptember 19, 2022
From the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson have dinner. It…
John DevannySeptember 16, 2022
On June 17th, 2015, a deranged white man, Dylan Roof, attacked an all-black prayer meeting…
Valerie ProtopapasSeptember 15, 2022
Owen Wister’s novel Lady Baltimore is the story of a Northern man spending time in…
Julie PaineSeptember 12, 2022
Loving Home by Carey Roberts from the 2022 Abbeville Institute Summer School, July 5-8, 2022…
Carey RobertsSeptember 9, 2022
Originally published at barelyablog.com In the mid-1950s my family arrived in Athens, Alabama, I being…
Fred ReedSeptember 7, 2022
This article was first published by Crossfire: The Magazine of the American Civil War Round…
David CrumSeptember 2, 2022
In 1978, Georgia native Richard Harwell--older brother of the famous baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell--published In…
Brion McClanahanAugust 31, 2022
Why the red wave will NOT be. The typical contemporary Republicans lie for support, then…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 25, 2022
John William Corrington (1932—1988) of Louisiana was a prolific author of poetry, stories, and novels.…
Clyde WilsonAugust 22, 2022
Professor Bill Wilson explains why William Faulkner should be universally regarded as America's greatest writer.…
William WilsonAugust 19, 2022
A review of Confessions of a Copperhead: Culture and Politics in the Modern South (Shotwell…
John DevannyAugust 18, 2022
Very few things in my native Fairfax County are especially old. That’s unfortunate, given the…
Casey ChalkAugust 15, 2022
“When things go south” is a phrase that typically means matters have taken a turn…
Julie PaineAugust 11, 2022
Raised on a tobacco farm at the edge of the Chinquapin Forest in Southern Maryland,…
J.L. BennettAugust 8, 2022
VI. Still Rebels, Still Yankees Originally published as two essays in the American Review and…
Chase SteelyAugust 4, 2022
Several years ago, my wife and I visited a distillery in rural Virginia that made…
Casey ChalkJuly 26, 2022
I sit here, watching the fading sun over the Ozarks hills, not too far from…
Travis HoltJuly 22, 2022
I. The Diversity of America Parts of this chapter (along with several others) are from…
Chase SteelyJuly 15, 2022
Uncle Jim didn’t care much for Lyin’ Ed and nobody really knew why. Some speculated…
Brandon MeeksJuly 14, 2022
From the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School On April 10th, 1606, King James I of…
John GrahamJuly 7, 2022
'Yates Standridge, who recently escaped from the state convict farm, where he was serving what…
Travis HoltJuly 1, 2022
When the assault on Southern heritage with the destruction of monuments, symbols and heroes began,…
Valerie ProtopapasJune 30, 2022
The Baz Luhrmann Elvis movie is as good as it is frustrating. The movie might…
Aaron N. ColemanJune 29, 2022
Some people won’t believe in something they haven’t seen, others refuse to believe in something…
Brandon MeeksJune 23, 2022
We live in a regime with an industrial output of lies about Southern history, so…
Clyde WilsonJune 17, 2022
As I grow older my appreciation for the wisdom of my parents increases. As the…
Earl StarbuckJune 16, 2022
Moonshine, though often associated with Appalachia, is also an integral part of the Ozarks culture.…
Travis HoltJune 15, 2022
Mako Honda recently told the Washington Post that she and her husband Ryan Finley live…
Casey ChalkMay 30, 2022
It’s hell, sittin’ here. I grew up in the hills of Newton County, Arkansas, the…
Travis HoltMay 24, 2022
While teaching at the University of Virginia, William Faulkner once remarked: “'I like Virginia and…
Casey ChalkMay 16, 2022
Delivered at the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park for the Confederate Memorial Day remembrance held…
Martin O'TooleMay 12, 2022
This piece was originally published at Chronicles Magazine and is reprinted here by permission. The…
Paul GottfriedMay 2, 2022
I'm going to talk about the way the Articles of Confederation functioned, how people acted…
Carey RobertsApril 29, 2022
Neither side in the War for Southern Independence produced a finer or more morally upright…
Samuel W. MitchamApril 28, 2022
My grandmother is the closest thing to a saint I have ever known. She is…
Brandon MeeksApril 27, 2022
William Gilmore Simms, Part 2 The Green Corn Dance Come hither, hither, old and young--the…
Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2022
From the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. So, what I have to say is gonna…
Thomas FlemingApril 19, 2022
There are disagreements on the subject, but I wholeheartedly believe that Bardstown, Kentucky is “where…
J.L. BennettApril 15, 2022
In the mid-1760s, violent criminal activity began to spread throughout the sparsely populated interior of…
Nicole WilliamsApril 13, 2022
The advent of my coming and going to another world was not through a portal…
Chase SteelyMarch 17, 2022
I started playing the piano when I was 11. My family wasn’t musical and didn’t…
Brandon MeeksMarch 16, 2022
A dozen years ago or so, I was pastoring a small country church in the…
Brandon MeeksFebruary 28, 2022
Have you ever accidentally used the wrong mushrooms in a recipe inducing you to think…
Chase SteelyFebruary 24, 2022
Christmas can be both a wonderful and awful time of the year for many of…
Nicole WilliamsDecember 24, 2021
Although Hollywood is now considered a monolithic bastion of leftist and “woke” political and cultural…
Boyd CatheyDecember 10, 2021
Andrew Nelson Lytle—novelist, dramatist, essayist, and professor of literature—extolled the order of the family, which…
Mark G. MalvasiDecember 8, 2021
The proud folks of The Old Dominion turned their state from Blue back to Red…
James Ronald KennedyNovember 30, 2021
The Thanksgiving holiday always puts me in mind of the history of this country from…
Boyd CatheyNovember 29, 2021
Of all the giants that strode through my childhood, some loom larger than others: Some…
Travis HoltNovember 26, 2021
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered in 1917 and was published in the September issue…
H.W. JohnstonNovember 19, 2021
By 1860 our country was so hopelessly divided that it broke up, and only by…
M.C. AtkinsNovember 17, 2021
Many years ago I spent five fantastic weeks in Boston during the fall. Though I…
Casey ChalkNovember 15, 2021
I was chairman of the Annual Confederate Flag Day at the North Carolina State…
Boyd CatheyNovember 12, 2021
Editor's Note: Often considered one of the more important "Lost Cause" post-bellum narratives, Letitia Burwell's…
Letitia M. BurwellNovember 10, 2021
Editor's Note: Former Abbeville Institute summer school student Jon Harris and his Last Stand Studios…
Abbeville InstituteNovember 8, 2021
Dr. Paul Gottfried's speech at the annual Confederate Flag Day commemoration in the historic 1840…
Boyd CatheyNovember 5, 2021
Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated…
John DevannyOctober 26, 2021
At the University of Virginia, Room No.13 on the fabled Lawn is reserved as a…
Casey ChalkOctober 25, 2021
Our farm was a broadly covered area of green stalks, blanketing the ground for hundreds…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 21, 2021
Over the past several years I have been writing essays for several publications and…
Boyd CatheyOctober 18, 2021
When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won…
Sam FrancisOctober 13, 2021
This essay was originally published in the August 1995 issue of Chronicles magazine. Some folks…
John Shelton ReedOctober 12, 2021
The locusts descend upon the land. Not the literal ones, but a kind much worse,…
Travis HoltOctober 7, 2021
The following is an excerpt from an article by a man named Troy Cauley. It…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 1, 2021
We’ve all heard some cliché joke about ‘voices in our head’, usually posted over and…
Travis HoltSeptember 23, 2021
In a significant departure for this series, the 9th installment of What Makes This Musician…
Tom DanielSeptember 22, 2021
Perhaps it was after watching yet another film depicting the South as irredeemably backwards and…
Casey ChalkSeptember 21, 2021
Regarding Afghanistan. There is nothing to say that has not been said better by those,…
Enoch CadeSeptember 20, 2021
Editor's note: The following story was told by "Private" John Allen, a Congressmen from Mississippi…
John M. AllenSeptember 3, 2021
Originally published in the March 1998 issue of Reason magazine. Local busybodies target the front…
John Shelton ReedAugust 30, 2021
Americans have a weird relationship with their roots. Most folk want to be from somewhere,…
Casey ChalkAugust 23, 2021
The opponents of Southern heritage often repeat the trope: “You lost, get over it.” One…
Rev. Larry BeaneAugust 17, 2021
This essay was originally published in the February 1936 issue of The American Review. Years…
Frank L. OwlsleyAugust 5, 2021
Editor's Note: In an effort to "explore what is true and valuable in the Southern…
Robert Y. DrakeAugust 3, 2021
I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2021
Many Southerners are familiar with James “Ron” Kennedy and his brother, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, who…
Boyd CatheyJuly 19, 2021
Sometimes readers will ask me: “Why did you write on that? What were you trying to…
Boyd CatheyJune 17, 2021
I once wrote an article on the problems arising from what I termed “group condemnation.”…
Valerie ProtopapasJune 8, 2021
“How time changes everything.” This quote came from the lips of a fairly surprised man…
Travis HoltMay 28, 2021
Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…
Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
For Christmas, I gave my granddaughter a compilation of Eudora Welty’s novels. She’s an avid…
Averyell A. KesslerMay 21, 2021
Continued from Part 3. “And of all the officers or men whom I ever knew he…
Earl StarbuckMay 12, 2021
In the early 1870s, a young pre-law student at Howard College was inspired by classmate…
James W. Whitehead VMay 11, 2021
Continued from Part I. “He was a superb specimen of manly grace and elegance…There was…
Earl StarbuckApril 28, 2021
Any fool can write history, and many do. Please do not assume that I mean…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2021
A white house sits on the outskirts of a small town in upstate South Carolina.…
Tom HerveyMarch 26, 2021
I read this piece to the Jackson Writers Guild a year ago. Since then, we’ve…
Averyell A. KesslerMarch 19, 2021
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered before the Senate on March 12, 1910, at the…
Henry Cabot LodgeMarch 18, 2021
As part of its campaign to pander to the important and urgent needs of African-Americans…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 12, 2021
These past several years, we Americans have been living in an accelerating anti-cultural vortex. Day…
Jason MorganMarch 10, 2021
“Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?” asks one of the characters on…
Casey ChalkMarch 9, 2021
I have written here before about my beloved hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama. Forgive me if…
Tom DanielMarch 8, 2021
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which He hath made…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.March 5, 2021
A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union. American…
Terry HulseyFebruary 23, 2021
If these were normal times, we’d all be unpacking our Mardi Gras gear right about…
Tom DanielFebruary 16, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 25-29, 2021 Topics: Southern Tradition, Slavery,…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 30, 2021
From Eternity into Time Mighty the Wizard Who found me at sunrise Sleeping, and woke…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.January 29, 2021
Rock ‘n Roll may be the most significant cultural export in American history. There is…
Tom DanielJanuary 27, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 11-22, 2021 Topics: Reconciliation, Southern Politics,…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 23, 2021
The old saying: “American by birth, Southern by the grace of God” certainly applies to…
Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 21, 2021
In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute…
Forrest L. MarionJanuary 7, 2021
Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in…
John DevannyDecember 18, 2020
Most all of us who were fortunate enough to know our Grandfather has experienced his…
Travis HoltDecember 15, 2020
Earlier this year, shortly after the sad and unfortunate death of George Floyd in Minneapolis,…
Casey ChalkDecember 10, 2020
The life of a man is something that runs deep in all history. Before the…
Travis HoltNovember 30, 2020
‘There has always been this fallacious belief: “It would not be the same here; here…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 11, 2020
In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met…
Karen StokesNovember 5, 2020
‘The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books,…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 4, 2020
As some business owners and residents on King Street described it, “Charleston was raped” on…
Stewart O. JonesOctober 30, 2020
There’s a popular meme floating around the internet that has a middle-aged, pot-bellied, suburban male…
Christopher J. CarterOctober 29, 2020
Since 2015, it has become standard fare for the left to accuse President Trump of…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 7, 2020
Coming from a small, truly united community, I have many places that are dear to…
Travis HoltOctober 2, 2020
Sampson County is a large, mostly rural county in southeastern North Carolina. Like most non-metropolitan…
Boyd CatheySeptember 30, 2020
Reminiscences and Ramblings of a Novice Wing-Shooter It was the First of September, 2019 and…
Travis ArchieSeptember 24, 2020
Travel writing about the American South is a genre of its own. One such observer…
Mike GoodloeSeptember 22, 2020
“Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land, doesn't mean…
Travis HoltSeptember 21, 2020
What if there were 15.3 million dead American soldiers? Imagine it. Legions of the unburied…
Duncan KillenSeptember 15, 2020
“The blues ain’t nothin’ but a good man feelin’ bad,” according to “Negro Blues,” penned…
Casey ChalkSeptember 9, 2020
Have any of you all heard about the film, "General Orders No. 9" ? It's…
Alphonse-Louis VinhAugust 31, 2020
I was raised in one of the poorest counties in North West Arkansas, where my…
Travis HoltAugust 18, 2020
How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These…
James Rutledge RoeschJuly 27, 2020
Editor's Note: The Abbeville Institute does not endorse or support the views of Alexander Dugin…
Walt GarlingtonJune 30, 2020
“Southerners who still value their heritage but don’t know what to do about it in…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2020
Allen Mendenhall interviews John Shelton Reed. AM: John, I really appreciate this interview. Your latest…
Allen MendenhallMay 11, 2020
Especially in unsettling times, it is helpful for Christians to examine the lives of faithful…
Forrest L. MarionApril 29, 2020
On various occasions I’ve made references to Chronicles Magazine and cited articles printed in it. Remarkably, Chronicles is the only print…
Boyd CatheyApril 22, 2020
A review of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farrar, Straus…
David GordonMarch 24, 2020
“Where you gonna be when half of California riots? Where you gonna run to when…
Brion McClanahanMarch 23, 2020
19. Our Speech The experts will tell you that there is more than one Southern…
Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 2020
A review of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the…
Garrett AgajanianMarch 17, 2020
16. EXECRABLES. The Worst Movies about the South: A Small Selection The competition here is…
Clyde WilsonMarch 5, 2020
15. Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Southerners: Films for the Family The major movie stars of…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 27, 2020
It was Thursday, Christmas day of 1862, and the guns at Fredericksburg had fallen silent…
John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2020
12. Southerners in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries **The Yearling (1946). This is…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 20, 2020
Fear not. Dixie lights are merely hiding under a bushel, as it says in the…
Barbara LawterFebruary 14, 2020
11. Post-bellum and Westerns There are two interesting, important, and little noticed features of films…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2020
Lieutenant-General Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson was the greatest martyr of our Cause, the first icon…
Neil KumarJanuary 22, 2020
William Gibson surprises people when they meet him. The writer who coined the terms “cyberspace”…
Mike C. TuggleJanuary 17, 2020
Theories of education in any land are never easily divorced from the prevailing ideas regarding…
Robert HoyleJanuary 15, 2020
As 2020 commences it is perhaps appropriate that we take stock—that we take a look…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 13, 2020
A photograph of the University of Mississippi Majorettes graced the cover of the September 24,…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 6, 2020
5. Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) If Amistad is not yet a household word like ET or…
Clyde WilsonDecember 19, 2019
Back in 2015 when Dylan Roof shot those black folks in their church in Charleston,…
Al BensonDecember 18, 2019
There are few Southern hearts that still fail to skip a beat or two when…
John MarquardtDecember 13, 2019
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonDecember 12, 2019
A review of Maxcy Gregg’s Sporting Journals, 1842-1858 (Green Altar Books, 2019) Suzanne Parfitt Johnson,…
John DevannyDecember 10, 2019
An excerpt from North Carolina author Robert Ruark’s best known novel reads: “If a man…
Philip LeighDecember 4, 2019
Early this past summer the historic Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, near the city of Charlotte,…
Boyd CatheyDecember 2, 2019
A Review of The Idea of The American South, 1920-1941, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)…
James J. Thompson, Jr.November 19, 2019
One of the two commandments the Lord Jesus Christ gave to His disciples to follow…
Walt GarlingtonNovember 8, 2019
You know, as a kid who grew up without electricity, a telephone or indoor plumbing,…
Ben JonesOctober 21, 2019
The news media rarely, if ever, focuses on the impact on society and culture the…
Nicole WilliamsOctober 16, 2019
I recently relocated--with any luck, temporarily--to a sprawling metroplex of a city of almost seven million,…
Leslie AlexanderOctober 14, 2019
Those of us whose experience goes back a way into the last century, can remember…
Clyde WilsonOctober 7, 2019
George Mason, like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, was happiest at home, either in the…
Brett MoffattSeptember 30, 2019
Southerners love home. This is true of many people throughout history, but place has, in…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 20, 2019
This article originally appeared on www.TheAmericanConservative.com. Copyright 2019 From the colonial era well into the…
John Shelton ReedSeptember 19, 2019
Lack of attachment to culture, heritage, and tradition is the death of a nation. As…
Nicole WilliamsAugust 28, 2019
A review of The C.S.A. Trilogy (Independent, 2018) by Howard Ray White. A beautiful thought…
Clyde WilsonAugust 27, 2019
This essay was originally published in The Lasting South (Regnery, 1957). Recently when Bertrand Russell…
Clifford DowdeyAugust 7, 2019
“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of…
Joel T. LeggettJuly 5, 2019
A review of Dabney on Fire: A Theology of Parenting, Education, Feminism, and Government (2019)…
Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2019
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS 22 April 2019 American by birth -- Southern by the grace…
John A. EidsmoeApril 25, 2019
Stretching from the Potomac River across the southeastern quarter of the United States in a…
Richard M. WeaverApril 22, 2019
To the student of the Classics the most interesting thing in the Library of Congress…
Fred IrlandApril 12, 2019
Right wing radio personalities need no excuse to engage in South-bashing, but the recent events…
J.L. BennettFebruary 27, 2019
In the popular imagination the South is viewed as a region typified by racism, poverty,…
John DevannyFebruary 18, 2019
In this age of political correctness it may surprise people that there were three TV…
Jeff WolvertonFebruary 15, 2019
Presented at the Lee-Jackson Banquet, Finley’s Brigade Camp 1614 - Tallahassee, Florida, 19 January 2019…
Paul C. GrahamFebruary 6, 2019
Watching NBC’s TODAY program on Tuesday, January 23, 2019, there was anchor Savannah Guthrie demanding…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 4, 2019
Many years ago the historian Francis Parkman wrote a passage in one of his narratives…
Richard M. WeaverJanuary 14, 2019
One summer day in Paris, France, just a year after the Great War, a former…
Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 11, 2019
The destruction of Confederate monuments and the slandering of all things Confederate is in vogue…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 9, 2019
None knew it then, but in 1915, Southern agrarian influence on the movies was at…
Norman StewartJanuary 7, 2019
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” – H. L. Mencken “Let…
John DevannyDecember 19, 2018
A review of The Land We Love: The South and Its Heritage (Scuppernong Press, 2018)…
Paul GottfriedDecember 18, 2018
The Abbeville Institute conducted three conferences this year on the fracturing of American national identity…
Donald LivingstonDecember 17, 2018
Why do Southerners continue to fall into that trap where we only talk about the…
Tom DanielDecember 14, 2018
For all of the pontificating of the virtues of the South, we have increasingly seen…
Nicole WilliamsDecember 3, 2018
The news came Thursday, November 15, that country music legend, Virginia-born Roy Clark had passed…
Boyd CatheyNovember 28, 2018
The study of history cannot be neatly contained behind the tall foreboding doors of an…
Jonathan HarrisNovember 9, 2018
Was the Old South Feudal? Eugene Genovese wrote several works on antebellum slavery that essentially…
Michael MartinOctober 24, 2018
Having traveled in all fifty states, I must admit there are certain areas of this…
Cary LindsayOctober 12, 2018
There was a time, before universal white male suffrage and the closing of the frontier,…
Michael MartinOctober 11, 2018
In some ways, historians are like anyone else: they hate to make mistakes. But if…
Samuel W. MitchamOctober 4, 2018
Editor's Note: The text is taken from Tom Skeyhill's, His Own Life Story And War…
Alvin C. YorkSeptember 19, 2018
Because we live in such a hurried time, we hear countless “noises” but have little…
Michael MartinAugust 16, 2018
In October 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the executive…
Brion McClanahanAugust 15, 2018
The 1970’s were an interesting time in the South. The 1970's were the last time…
Jeff RogersAugust 13, 2018
In the book The Mystery of the Wonder-Worker of Ostrog, the main character, Mladjen, a…
Walt GarlingtonAugust 10, 2018
Southerners confronted by Northerners touring our section are made aware of the difference in their…
Laurie HibbettJuly 20, 2018
There are many examples of heroism that illustrate spiritedness in America’s history. Indeed, the American…
Benjamin AlexanderJuly 16, 2018
In his important 1994 work, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism,…
Forrest L. MarionJuly 6, 2018
“Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or…
Aaron WolfJune 13, 2018
The quote below indirectly warns about the implications of Confederate statue removals and the…
Philip LeighJune 11, 2018
Picture it. A book store in Madison, Wisconsin, in the mid-’90s. Quite the unlikely place…
Dissident MamaJune 6, 2018
Our culture has, of late, become rather fixated on the idea that every historical figure…
R.M. StanglerMay 31, 2018
Given that the Star Wars franchise seems to have degenerated into yet another vehicle for…
Jerry SalyerMay 25, 2018
This spring thousands of graduates coming out of the high schools and colleges across the…
Walt GarlingtonMay 23, 2018
After reading Richard Weaver’s monumental work Ideas Have Consequences last semester I was struck with…
Jonathan HarrisMay 18, 2018
“It was my first introduction to damn Yankees,” my oldest sister remarked of her first…
Dissident MamaMay 16, 2018
This piece was originally printed in Southern Partisan magazine in 1985. Hank Williams has now…
Bill KoonMarch 28, 2018
A review of Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States: The Attack on Leviathan by…
Mark Royden WinchellMarch 27, 2018
If you travel I-20 east from Jackson, Mississippi, somewhere about 20 miles short of Meridian…
Paul H. YarbroughMarch 7, 2018
It is near impossible to express any admiration of the antebellum South without incurring the…
Reverdy JohnsonMarch 5, 2018
When I was very young, I recall my father telling me of George "No-Show" Jones,…
Christopher J. CarterFebruary 28, 2018
The Stockholm Syndrome is a condition where captives or hostages develop a psychological attachment and…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyFebruary 12, 2018
Everyone wanted to be Southern in the 1970s. The rejuvenated interest in Southern music from…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 9, 2018
Once upon a time in America, in a far different and far more gentle age,…
John MarquardtFebruary 5, 2018
Reading on the Abbeville site articles about the South and the West, I was reminded…
Joscelyn DunlopDecember 21, 2017
A review of The World They Made Together, Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century…
Vito MussomeliDecember 12, 2017
From its port side northern Kentucky’s foremost tourist attraction looks exactly like a real vessel,…
Jerry SalyerNovember 30, 2017
For five days in May, 1856, Charles Sumner delivered a speech entitled The Crime Against…
Michael MartinNovember 29, 2017
There is a popular theme embraced by many that the uniqueness of Southern culture is…
Clyde WilsonNovember 13, 2017
In our politically correct culture where even the mildest criticism of a societal group can…
Michael ArmstrongOctober 25, 2017
From the beginnings to rather recent times, sympathetic portrayals of Confederates have been a mainstay…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 27, 2017
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