I. THE name First given to the territory occupied by the present United States was…
Lyon G. TylerNovember 6, 2015
Do men read fiction anymore? In my youth I remember visiting other boys’ homes and…
Terry HulseyNovember 2, 2015
This piece was originally published at The American Conservative. When John William Corrington died in…
Allen MendenhallOctober 29, 2015
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he…
Clyde WilsonOctober 28, 2015
Introduction to Chronicles of the South: In Justice to So Fine a Country “The South”…
Clyde WilsonOctober 21, 2015
Thanks for the “Amateurs” “Amateur” has come to mean “inferior” to most people today. But…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 30, 2015
From personal experience I can draw any number of anecdotes that would vividly personify William…
Randall IveySeptember 21, 2015
This article was originally published by the Fleming Foundation. In simpler times when our world…
Thomas FlemingSeptember 14, 2015
As long as there have been soldiers, their ultimate defense mechanism has been dark comedy.…
Mike C. TuggleSeptember 10, 2015
Years ago I was introduced to my wife’s grandmother. This small but formidable woman lived…
John DevannySeptember 7, 2015
This article was originally published at the Fleming Foundation. When the Islamic State blows up…
Thomas FlemingSeptember 3, 2015
In the antebellum era, Matthew Carey, Philadelphia publisher and journalist, was the most zealous and…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2015
When William Faulkner visited Japan in 1955 to attend a literary symposium in Nagano, he…
John MarquardtAugust 27, 2015
Dan Smoot never considered himself to be a Southern conservative, though he was born and…
Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2015
In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…
Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
With all due apologies to Samuel Clemens, I like to think of myself as a…
John MarquardtAugust 17, 2015
Recently Mr. Donald Fraser wrote a column in my hometown newspaper, the Northeast Georgian, titled…
Samuel C. SmithAugust 7, 2015
This essay was first published in Southern Partisan in the Winter, 1985. Southerners rarely while…
Forrest McDonaldAugust 6, 2015
Back in mid-June, after the Charleston shootings, the frenzied hue and cry went up and…
Boyd CatheyAugust 4, 2015
Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2015
https://youtu.be/XPfOL4wUuMU Thanks to Tom Daniel for shooting me this video. This was made when the…
Brion McClanahanJuly 27, 2015
After an enforced retirement due to a bad back, and moving to the Deep South…
Arnie LermaJuly 24, 2015
One of America's most successful diplomats of the 20th century, was Horace C. Holmes, who…
Joscelyn DunlopJuly 21, 2015
The Confederate battle flag is protean. It is a powerful symbol that has entered the…
Clyde WilsonJuly 20, 2015
South Carolina is not known for great surfing, but a native son named Alexander Hume…
Karen StokesJuly 16, 2015
This article was orgininally printed in the Unz Review and is reprinted here with permission…
Paul GottfriedJuly 15, 2015
Any sensible, reasonable person is deeply saddened by the atrocious and tragic murder of nine…
Carl JonesJuly 10, 2015
As a teenager, I always loved Sydney J. Harris’ syndicated newspaper column called “Things I…
Tom DanielJuly 9, 2015
The sub-title of Karen F. McCarthy’s highly readable The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who…
Mike C. TuggleJuly 6, 2015
It is not necessary to detail Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn Jenner. Suffice it to…
Marshall DeRosaJuly 2, 2015
(1991) Oxford, Mississippi – I lost count of just how many times the University of…
Lewis GrizzardJune 29, 2015
The Report from Dogwood Mudhole Franklin Sanders is a well-known Southern leader and spokesman. In…
Clyde WilsonJune 25, 2015
This piece was originally published on 3 July 2014 and is reprinted in light of…
Clyde WilsonJune 24, 2015
“Way down in Missouri…Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me…” – Lyrics from…
Travis ArchieJune 23, 2015
With the Sesquicentennial of the epic war of American history winding down, many may think…
William CawthonMay 19, 2015
The recent riots in Baltimore gave most Americans pause as they struggled to make sense…
John DevannyMay 15, 2015
Maryland Redeemed Everybody knows that our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was written by Francis…
Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2015
Originally published by the History News Network, 11 November 2014. “In one of my seminar…
M. Andrew HolowchakApril 14, 2015
The closing days of the sesquicentennial has offered media outlets the chance to reflect on…
Brion McClanahanApril 10, 2015
What to say in brief compass about the South?—a subject that is worthy of the…
Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2015
The late Richard M. Weaver, “now widely recognized as one of the most original and…
R.E. Smith, Jr.April 8, 2015
Southerners live in the 18th century. This common charge is not altogether false, since the…
Ward S. AllenApril 7, 2015
The phrase, "The New South", appears in the 1886 speech that Atlanta newspaper editor, Henry…
Gail JarvisApril 6, 2015
There seemed to be little interest among audience members in whether the ideas I had…
Clyde WilsonMarch 25, 2015
I used to always wonder if other Southern children were taught the same thing we…
Tom DanielMarch 23, 2015
The antipathy of many urbanites who reside in Greater New England (think Old New England…
John DevannyMarch 6, 2015
Henry Timrod, the greatest Southern poet next to Edgar Allan Poe, the "Poet Laureate of…
William CawthonMarch 2, 2015
Some months back, my buddy Tom Daniel wrote a piece titled "What Every Southern Man…
Carl JonesFebruary 27, 2015
Coal miners have their canaries; we have colinus virginiánus, the bobwhite quail. Like the canary…
John DevannyFebruary 9, 2015
Reprinted from Circa1865.com. The articles of Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe would often express “in vigorous…
Bernard ThuersamJanuary 23, 2015
I am honoured to be back in my native State (North Carolina) where the weak…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 19, 2015
Country music singer Travis Tritt recently tweeted a controversial comment in the wake of the…
Dan E. PhillipsJanuary 16, 2015
This piece originally appeared on www.fitsnews.com. When you’re out and about in Charleston, S.C., almost…
Strom McCallumDecember 23, 2014
What are people for? --Wendell Berry I do not view politicks as a scramble…
Clyde WilsonDecember 16, 2014
Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast believes “It’s Time to Dump Dixie.” Please do. He…
Brion McClanahanDecember 10, 2014
Today, November 13, is the birthday of one of the Troubadours of Southern Rock, Toy…
Carl JonesNovember 13, 2014
*Apologies to Jon White from whom I sole the title for this piece. Invariably, any…
John DevannyNovember 12, 2014
As with literature, nineteenth-century American art is dominated by the North and Northern subjects. The…
Brion McClanahanNovember 7, 2014
The Constitutional power of the President never was or could be formidable, unless it was…
Clyde WilsonNovember 5, 2014
When did the South ever lay its hand on the North? --Calhoun The body of…
Clyde WilsonOctober 28, 2014
This essay originally appeared on Fred Reed's website and is reprinted here by permission. My…
Fred ReedOctober 24, 2014
Originally published at the Jenny Jack Sun Farm blog, August 2014. The old man in…
Chris JacksonOctober 22, 2014
Are you ready? Hell yea! Damn right! Hotty Toddy, gosh almighty, Who the hell are…
John DevannyOctober 20, 2014
I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…
Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
Reality is what continues to exist whether you believe in it or not. --Philip K.…
Clyde WilsonOctober 6, 2014
Swagger and ferocity, built on a foundation of vulgarity and cowardice, those are his characteristics,…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 18, 2014
While I could never with safety repose confidence in a Yankee, I have never been…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 11, 2014
California AB 2444 has cleared all legislative hurdles by overwhelming majorities (71 to 1 in…
Marshall DeRosaAugust 28, 2014
The Abbeville Institute is dedicated to promoting Southern culture, and doesn’t shed a single calorie…
Tom DanielAugust 27, 2014
The books found on library shelves began changing some time ago. The intellectual interests of…
Gail JarvisAugust 26, 2014
For centuries the Scottish Highlanders, existing under a clan system, were apt to “revolt” against…
Carl JonesAugust 20, 2014
Cotton and tobacco. For years those two agricultural products were as synonymous with the South…
Brion McClanahanAugust 15, 2014
One of the cultural markers that has identified that which we call Southern from the…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2014
Expert testimony in several federal court cases: Scholars in every field in the humanities and…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2014
This article is taken from The Unz Review and was originally presented at the Confederate…
Paul GottfriedAugust 4, 2014
I was killing time the other day in my office looking through human interest websites…
Tom DanielJuly 14, 2014
I’m afraid we may be looking at an upcoming generation of Southern children who don’t…
Tom DanielJuly 10, 2014
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed…
Clyde WilsonJuly 9, 2014
Today (July 8) is Lt. Col. John Stith Pemberton's birthday. While not as important to…
Brion McClanahanJuly 8, 2014
On April 4, 1964, The Beatles achieved American chart success that will almost certainly never…
Tom DanielJuly 7, 2014
The trailer (end of the piece) for the second season of Country Music Television’s “Party…
James Rutledge RoeschJuly 1, 2014
One of the unwritten great things about the South is our obsession with colorful nicknames.…
Tom DanielJune 19, 2014
Hermann Keyserling was an Austrian writer quite well-known internationally in the early 20th century for…
Clyde WilsonJune 19, 2014
"Nations are the wealth of mankind, its generalized personalities; the least among them has its…
Clyde WilsonJune 18, 2014
You can count me out of the trendy Redneck Renaissance going on. I guess I’m…
Tom DanielJune 17, 2014
When the Celtic people of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern England began coming in large…
Carl JonesJune 16, 2014
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