Pete Hegseth has a book out, Battle for the American Mind, which among other promotions…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 28, 2022
Conditions and Limitations of Southern Educational Efforts. In the discussion of educational interests and educational…
Robert Burwell FultonSeptember 16, 2021
Why bother with opening the schools, if all that you’ll have is the same uneducated…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 27, 2021
Continued from Part 3. “And of all the officers or men whom I ever knew he…
Earl StarbuckMay 12, 2021
Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War.…
Philip LeighApril 21, 2021
Theories of education in any land are never easily divorced from the prevailing ideas regarding…
Robert HoyleJanuary 15, 2020
To the student of the Classics the most interesting thing in the Library of Congress…
Fred IrlandApril 12, 2019
After reading Richard Weaver’s monumental work Ideas Have Consequences last semester I was struck with…
Jonathan HarrisMay 18, 2018
A few years after General Lee accepted the presidency of the then Washington College, I…
John B. CollyarJanuary 18, 2018
A Review of The Elements of Academic Success by Gene Kizer, Jr. Charleston: Charleston Athenaeum…
Michael PottsJanuary 16, 2018
Address delivered to the graduates of the South Carolina College, December 1821. Gentlemen, YOU are…
Thomas CooperJune 17, 2016
This essay is a chapter from The South in the Building of the Nation series,…
Edwin MimsFebruary 2, 2016
As I watched my local Montgomery, Alabama news station this morning, I saw that question…
Tom DanielFebruary 1, 2016
In the Old South, only those children whose parents thought they needed education, attended school;…
George CrockettJanuary 29, 2016
This essay was originally published in The Georgia Review, Vol. II, No. 3 (Fall 1948),…
Richard M. WeaverJanuary 22, 2016
There seemed to be little interest among audience members in whether the ideas I had…
Clyde WilsonMarch 25, 2015
John Chodes, Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-Education of the Old South. New…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 29, 2015
“Defeat has not made ‘all our sacred things profane.’ The war has left the South…
James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 29, 2014
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in an effort to combat the “dark Federalist…
Brion McClanahanJuly 11, 2014
Most people don't know, but today (June 11) is Clyde Wilson's birthday. I had the…
Brion McClanahanJune 11, 2014
Judged by the quality of the men it brought to power the eighteenth-century Virginia way…
Charles S. SydnorApril 23, 2014
In an age such as ours—beset by the conceit that the noblest political act is…
Jefferson ViridiApril 15, 2014
February 2014 saw the passing of Maurice Bessinger and Tim Wilson, two Southerners who represented…
Brion McClanahanApril 10, 2014
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