Brion McClanahan discusses the Southern constitutional tradition, from the 2022 Abbeville Institute Summer School at…
Abbeville InstituteSeptember 20, 2022
Joe Biden’s “address to the nation,” delivered September 1, 2022, was one of the most…
James Ronald KennedySeptember 14, 2022
I presume the decision by the U.S. Postal Service leadership didn’t sound like a difficult…
Casey ChalkSeptember 13, 2022
Loving Home by Carey Roberts from the 2022 Abbeville Institute Summer School, July 5-8, 2022…
Carey RobertsSeptember 9, 2022
In 1957, Senator John F. Kennedy issued a report on the five most important Senators…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 8, 2022
From Thomas Ritchie: A Study in Virginia Politics by Charles Henry Ambler Ritchie was not…
Abbeville InstituteSeptember 6, 2022
In 1978, Georgia native Richard Harwell--older brother of the famous baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell--published In…
Brion McClanahanAugust 31, 2022
Remarks of President Davis at the Meeting of the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors held at…
Abbeville InstituteAugust 30, 2022
John William Corrington (1932—1988) of Louisiana was a prolific author of poetry, stories, and novels.…
Clyde WilsonAugust 22, 2022
It might truly be said that the death, funeral and burial of Thomas Jefferson’s American…
John MarquardtAugust 10, 2022
In the long range of history the war correspondent, a journalist embedded with a fighting…
Clyde WilsonAugust 5, 2022
As we progress into old age, our perspectives tend to change. Things that occupied most…
Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2022
I. The Diversity of America Parts of this chapter (along with several others) are from…
Chase SteelyJuly 15, 2022
“In 1938 appeared the clearest and most courageous of the Agrarian documents, Donald Davidson’s Attack…
Chase SteelyJuly 8, 2022
We live in a regime with an industrial output of lies about Southern history, so…
Clyde WilsonJune 17, 2022
Most people don't know anything about Jefferson Davis other than he was the President of…
Abbeville InstituteJune 3, 2022
Delivered at the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park for the Confederate Memorial Day remembrance held…
Martin O'TooleMay 12, 2022
I'm going to talk about the way the Articles of Confederation functioned, how people acted…
Carey RobertsApril 29, 2022
In 1935 Lyon Gardiner Tyler – descendant of 10th President John Tyler – wrote: “The…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 21, 2022
I presume I am not the only person who thinks regularly about the strange reality…
Casey ChalkMarch 11, 2022
The Adventures and Recollections of General Walter P. Lane, A San Jacinto Veteran (1887) John…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 22, 2022
On a website devoted to publishing scholarly articles, I did recently did a search…
Thomas HubertFebruary 9, 2022
Delivered at our 2011 Scholar's Conference, The South and America's Wars Well, good morning, and…
Richard M. GambleFebruary 7, 2022
By Forrest McDonald and Clyde Wilson. These essays were originally published in the Fall 1982…
Abbeville InstituteFebruary 3, 2022
Excerpt from Ryan Walters, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President (Abbeville Institute Press, 2021) While…
Ryan WaltersFebruary 2, 2022
I’ve spent the last forty-five years doing family research and family history. I’ve interviewed some…
Barbara MarthalFebruary 1, 2022
A Review of: Richard B. Russell, Jr. Senator from Georgia (UNC Press, 1991) by Gilbert…
Charles GoolsbyJanuary 18, 2022
Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal along with Tesla’s Elon Musk and an early Facebook…
Philip LeighJanuary 6, 2022
Growing up on ‘Holt Hill’ in Vendor, Arkansas, I was truly blessed. I had a…
Travis HoltDecember 30, 2021
After the Civil War, former North Carolina governor Zeb Vance became a U.S. senator. His…
Jeff MinickDecember 20, 2021
Editor's note: The author of this piece won the Bennett History Medal in 1908 for…
D. Ralph Midyette, Jr.December 2, 2021
On Saturday, November 20, MSNBC aired a segment by activist Gyasi Ross comparing Thanksgiving to…
Brion McClanahanNovember 24, 2021
The current conservative populist movement appears to offer some hope of mounting an effective resistance…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 2, 2021
In August, Thomas Moore, novelist and founding Chairman of the Southern National Congress, passed away…
Clyde WilsonNovember 1, 2021
The delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, presumptuously shelving that…
J.L. BennettOctober 22, 2021
After finishing a biography titled, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty, by John Kukla, I am…
Julie PaineOctober 20, 2021
Over the past several years I have been writing essays for several publications and…
Boyd CatheyOctober 18, 2021
It is not the purpose of this article to set forth any new discovery, nor…
William Robertson GarrettOctober 15, 2021
This article was originally published in the May 1916 issue of the Journal of Political…
William E. DoddOctober 14, 2021
The numerous declarations among "right-wing" websites, blogs, and print publications usually present a conundrum of…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 17, 2021
Conditions and Limitations of Southern Educational Efforts. In the discussion of educational interests and educational…
Robert Burwell FultonSeptember 16, 2021
The court historian is as old as history itself. Early states were based on the…
Jason MorganSeptember 10, 2021
Biblical history tells us that Abrahamic monotheism, the foundation of not only Judaism but Christianity…
John MarquardtSeptember 9, 2021
The modern academic narrative says that the South’s purpose in secession and war was to…
Rod O'BarrAugust 26, 2021
At the top of the hill where my great-grandparents lived, there was a dusty, black…
Travis HoltJuly 30, 2021
“Who's your people?” Though now somewhat rare, one still hears that question in Dixie, usually…
Casey ChalkJuly 26, 2021
If timid and pacified Southerners needed more proof that we are a defeated and occupied…
James Ronald KennedyJuly 20, 2021
Some twenty years ago I had planned to write a full-length study of John Pelham—known…
Thomas HubertJuly 7, 2021
The "ultimate cause" of the War of Secession was two mutually exclusive understanding of government.…
Valerie ProtopapasJuly 6, 2021
While the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has also wreaked havoc throughout the South, there was…
John MarquardtJune 24, 2021
“The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised,”…
Casey ChalkJune 23, 2021
A review of The Retribution Conspiracy: The Rise of the Confederate Secret Service (Scuppernong Press,…
James Ronald KennedyJune 10, 2021
The Federalist online magazine has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost…
Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2021
As Memorial Day approaches, I am thinking of a man I never met. His name…
Averyell A. KesslerJune 7, 2021
And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crimeAre pronest to it, and impute themselves…Tennyson,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 3, 2021
One of my colleagues in the ministry of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS)…
Rev. Larry BeaneJune 2, 2021
Reviewers are unrelenting in their praise for the new Amazon streaming television series The Underground…
Casey ChalkMay 31, 2021
Why bother with opening the schools, if all that you’ll have is the same uneducated…
Paul H. YarbroughMay 27, 2021
It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…
Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
In the 1986 comedy film Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield’s character, Thornton Mellon, a wealthy,…
Ryan WaltersMay 20, 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 2. “He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a…
Earl StarbuckMay 5, 2021
A review of Preachers with Power: Four Stalwarts of the South (Banner of Truth, 1992)…
Karen StokesMay 4, 2021
Continued from Part I. “He was a superb specimen of manly grace and elegance…There was…
Earl StarbuckApril 28, 2021
Ah! My Lord Arthur, whither shall I go?Where shall I hide my forehead and my…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 23, 2021
In the Year of Our Lord 2021, it is fashionable for American Christians to despise…
Earl StarbuckApril 22, 2021
Any fool can write history, and many do. Please do not assume that I mean…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2021
Many today feel that true Southerners living in the eleven States of the former Confederacy…
John MarquardtMarch 24, 2021
Coming out of the American Revolution, the nation faced a slave problem that most today…
James (Jim) PedersonFebruary 18, 2021
On a late November evening in 1970, I rolled into the “Big Easy” on an…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.February 12, 2021
The year 2020 was brutal for the friends of the South. Monuments and statues of…
John DevannyFebruary 3, 2021
A review of President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler (LSU Press, 2020)…
Joe WolvertonFebruary 1, 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
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 11-22, 2021 Topics: Reconciliation, Southern Politics,…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 23, 2021
According to a recent poll, 72 per cent of Americans think that we are now…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 18, 2021
You might call it propaganda, state lies, fraud, illusions or delusions. I prefer pretenses which…
Robert PetersJanuary 14, 2021
All-too-often, seemingly buried in the myriad dates and statistics of history, lies the human experience…
Travis ArchieDecember 9, 2020
The dramatic events leading up to the secession of the Southern States, the tragedy of…
John MarquardtDecember 7, 2020
In the late 19th century, Romantic composers were driven by nationalism as a means to…
Tom DanielDecember 4, 2020
Edited by Robert Hoyle. A Discourse delivered at the Annual Commencement of Hampden-Sydney College, June…
Robert Lewis DabneyNovember 25, 2020
The roots of the myth that slavery was primarily a white Southern institution were planted…
John MarquardtNovember 13, 2020
‘The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books,…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 4, 2020
Some people come from the “the land down under”. I come from the land “where…
Barbara MarthalOctober 15, 2020
Coming from a small, truly united community, I have many places that are dear to…
Travis HoltOctober 2, 2020
From The Land We Love, V, no. I (May 1868), 25-34, edited by Joseph S.…
Robert Lewis DabneySeptember 25, 2020
A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they…
Philip LeighSeptember 16, 2020
On August 1, 1946, a group of Southern World War Two veterans in Athens, Tennessee,…
Neil KumarSeptember 3, 2020
Eight-tenths of a mile down a dead-end Arkansas gravel road, at that dead end, past…
Travis ArchieAugust 28, 2020
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) are constantly under attack from those on the…
Kevin FlynnAugust 20, 2020
“Madam, don't bring your sons up to detest the United States Government. Recollect that we…
Gerald LefurgyAugust 17, 2020
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 10, 2020
Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), known as “The Father of Black History,” was born in…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.August 5, 2020
“Southerners who still value their heritage but don’t know what to do about it in…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2020
A Review of Old Times There Should Not Be Forgotten (Shotwell Publishing, 2020) by Leslie…
Michael PottsFebruary 25, 2020
It was Thursday, Christmas day of 1862, and the guns at Fredericksburg had fallen silent…
John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2020
A review of How to Study History When Seeking Truthfulness and Understanding: Lessons Learned from Outside…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2020
Fear not. Dixie lights are merely hiding under a bushel, as it says in the…
Barbara LawterFebruary 14, 2020
Lieutenant-General Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson was the greatest martyr of our Cause, the first icon…
Neil KumarJanuary 22, 2020
Driving thru Southern Maryland’s rural scenery- farms, woods, and villages, history greets you around every…
Brett MoffattNovember 27, 2019
A Review of The Idea of The American South, 1920-1941, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)…
James J. Thompson, Jr.November 19, 2019
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the “Whose Heritage?” report on the…
Ernest BlevinsNovember 7, 2019
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they…
Ben JonesNovember 4, 2019
Where did the belief in the "black Confederate soldier" originate? Did it begin in 1977,…
Shane AndersonOctober 9, 2019
Those of us whose experience goes back a way into the last century, can remember…
Clyde WilsonOctober 7, 2019
Every now and then an acquaintance who reads what I write will ask me: “Boyd,…
Boyd CatheyOctober 4, 2019
These days, we see many politicians pushing relentlessly for gun control. In the wake of…
Michael MartinOctober 3, 2019
A book condemning the left-wing bias of one of the most widely read and educationally…
John MarquardtSeptember 26, 2019
What does the South have to offer that is valuable to humanity, to civilization? In…
Karen StokesSeptember 25, 2019
A review of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American…
Robert L. PaquetteSeptember 24, 2019
I recently read a report of a professor who declared that he had come sadly…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 23, 2019
From late 1983 until its fitful demise in the early 2000s, I served as a…
Boyd CatheySeptember 18, 2019
The Colonial Parkway connects Jamestowne and WIlliamsburg with the third leg of Virginia’s HIstoric Triangle-Yorktown. …
Brett MoffattSeptember 6, 2019
A semantic technique that has worked well for political types is renaming things to make…
Gail JarvisAugust 16, 2019
Before there was any New England in the North, there was something very like Old…
Garrett AgajanianAugust 15, 2019
This essay was originally published in The Lasting South (Regnery, 1957). Recently when Bertrand Russell…
Clifford DowdeyAugust 7, 2019
George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson trod the roads of this area as the…
Brett MoffattJuly 29, 2019
Review of The Barber of Natchez (LSU, 1954, 1973) edited by Edwin Adams Davis and William…
Vito MussomeliJuly 23, 2019
Virginia’s Historic Triangle: Jamestowne, Williamsburg and Yorktowne encompasses the first permanent English settlement in America,…
Brett MoffattJune 28, 2019
Many who are well acquainted with Southern history are almost entirely unfamiliar with the historical…
William E. DoddJune 27, 2019
A review of The First South (LSU Press, 1961) by John Richard Alden One of…
Shane AndersonJune 11, 2019
I attended a protest to tear down the John C. Calhoun monument in Charleston on…
Michael MartinMay 23, 2019
A Review of Doniphan’s Expedition, Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico .…
Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2019
The first English settlement in what is now Hampton was started in 1610, when Colonist…
Brett MoffattMay 10, 2019
History is remembered as a narrative, not facts and figures. If the story is told…
Philip LeighApril 26, 2019
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS 22 April 2019 American by birth -- Southern by the grace…
John A. EidsmoeApril 25, 2019
“It is out of fashion these days to look backward rather than forward,” the poet…
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.April 17, 2019
Southeast Virginia is a region rich in history, from the earliest colonial times to today’s…
Brett MoffattMarch 1, 2019
It was an indelible moment, one that has resonated with me up to the present…
Randall IveyFebruary 21, 2019
A Review of The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (Knopf Publishing Company, 1990)…
Charles GoolsbyFebruary 5, 2019
In the ongoing war against Southern Confederate heritage, we need to be cognizant of the…
Alphonse-Louis VinhJanuary 31, 2019
The dominant powers in American discourse today have succeeded in confining the South to a…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2019
Many years ago the historian Francis Parkman wrote a passage in one of his narratives…
Richard M. WeaverJanuary 14, 2019
The destruction of Confederate monuments and the slandering of all things Confederate is in vogue…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 9, 2019
In 1875, Rev. Moses Drury Hoge stood before 40,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, at the…
Brion McClanahanDecember 21, 2018
A review of Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir (University Press of Kansas, 2004) by…
Stephen M. KlugewiczDecember 11, 2018
In the spirit of historical course correction, I herewith submit some thoughts to those who…
Joseph R. StrombergNovember 23, 2018
Citizens of Dixie…. This is a call to arms, or rather, a call to your…
Brett MoffattNovember 22, 2018
The study of history cannot be neatly contained behind the tall foreboding doors of an…
Jonathan HarrisNovember 9, 2018
I recently traveled with ten undergraduate students to the Conference on Faith and History (CFH)…
Samuel C. SmithNovember 8, 2018
There was a time, before universal white male suffrage and the closing of the frontier,…
Michael MartinOctober 11, 2018
A review of In Defense of Andrew Jackson by Brad Birzer (Regnery History, 2018). Andrew…
Dave BennerOctober 9, 2018
In some ways, historians are like anyone else: they hate to make mistakes. But if…
Samuel W. MitchamOctober 4, 2018
The whole 20th century was a horrible time for the friends of tradition: the mild…
Walt GarlingtonSeptember 28, 2018
Editor's Note: The text is taken from Tom Skeyhill's, His Own Life Story And War…
Alvin C. YorkSeptember 19, 2018
On October 31, 1910—seven years after the Wright Brother’s first airplane flight of less than…
Philip LeighSeptember 7, 2018
The “Fake News” appellation has been applied to just about every outlet that presents itself…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 31, 2018
There is a tendency for each generation to assume its opinions are the ultimate correct…
Gail JarvisAugust 30, 2018
A review Slave and Free on Virginia’s Eastern Shore by Kirk Mariner (Onancok, VA: Miona Publications, 2014).…
John DevannyAugust 21, 2018
"Lincoln, under no circumstances, would I vote for ... So, I say, stand by the…
Vito MussomeliJuly 12, 2018
In the film version of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, after Atlanta has been…
Robin Spencer LattimoreJuly 11, 2018
Is the South today a captive nation? Most Southerners would never consider the question—most likely…
James Ronald KennedyJuly 9, 2018
One of the foremost scholars of the Southern Cause lives in New Market, Virginia. He…
Louis T. MarchJune 27, 2018
Fort Sumter was the beginning not only of a bloody conflict, but it forged a…
Norman E. RourkeJune 15, 2018
History is the propaganda of the victorious. - Voltaire According to an explanation of “The…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 7, 2018
Confederate West Virginia has always been an enigma. A bright fellow riding through Monroe County…
Frank BallJune 4, 2018
I've always been fascinated by those tricky slogans politicians and social activists use to dupe…
Gail JarvisJune 1, 2018
When the majority of people think of the Ku Klux Klan, there undoubtedly comes to…
John MarquardtMay 24, 2018
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed broadly…
Boyd CatheyMay 2, 2018
“Conservative” writer and classicist Victor Davis Hanson hates the Confederacy and the South; he has…
Boyd CatheyApril 12, 2018
Eminent historian Dr. Clyde Wilson in one of his many books on American history expresses…
Jonathan HarrisApril 11, 2018
It was Tuesday evening, September 16th, and people all across America were settling down for…
John MarquardtApril 5, 2018
Social activist Julia Ward wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in 1861, the same…
Dissident MamaMarch 23, 2018
Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen: I am speaking but the plain truth when I…
Irvin S. CobbMarch 19, 2018
With the current heated debate over gun rights and the 2nd Amendment of the United…
Lewis LibermanMarch 9, 2018
Since the 1960s, the interpretation of Southern history and the War Between the States put…
Gene Kizer, Jr.March 8, 2018
It is near impossible to express any admiration of the antebellum South without incurring the…
Reverdy JohnsonMarch 5, 2018
Address by Sam H. Jones, Governor of Louisiana to the Southern Farm Bureau Training School,…
Sam H. JonesJanuary 31, 2018
What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not…
Kirkpatrick SaleOctober 26, 2017
Donald Trump made the following statement at a recent rally in Phoenix, Arizona on August…
Michael MartinOctober 20, 2017
"Some crazy person just compared President Abraham Lincoln to Hitler. Yes, this just happened on…
Ilana MercerSeptember 7, 2017
Recent years have seen a new revisionist theme emerge in the history of America’s two…
Ryan WaltersSeptember 4, 2017
The current pogrom against Southern history and symbols ignores the influence the South and the…
Clyde WilsonAugust 30, 2017
Delivered at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. The attack on the so-called “lost cause”…
Brion McClanahanAugust 18, 2017
An Address given on the Occasion of the Observance of Confederate Flag Day Raleigh, North…
Paul C. GrahamAugust 2, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. You are deplorable. It is worse than…
Clyde WilsonJuly 24, 2017
This article was originally printed at Townhall.com A couple of days ago, a friend of…
Jack KerwickJuly 6, 2017
In the popular imagination the South is viewed as a region typified by racism, poverty,…
John DevannyJuly 5, 2017
Malcolm X wrote that “History is a weapon.” He was right, and no topic encompasses this truth…
Dissident MamaJuly 3, 2017
This article is the abbreviated address that I made at the Upcountry Literary Festival 2017,…
Barbara MarthalJune 30, 2017
This article was originally published in Southern Partisan magazine in 1994. The past—what we believe…
Ludwell H. JohnsonJune 23, 2017
The promise of “Freedom of the Press” becomes meaningless when large national “Progressive/Liberal” conglomerates maintain…
James Ronald KennedyJune 21, 2017
The Confederate battle flag is, as John Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy titled…
James Rutledge RoeschJune 15, 2017
A review of J. Wayne Flynt, Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites. Bloomington and…
Michael JordanJune 13, 2017
You can stand on the station platform at Harpers Ferry and see three States, two…
Holmes AlexanderMay 19, 2017
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of…
Dissident MamaMay 16, 2017
Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the, symposium I'll Take My Stand, only three are…
Andrew Nelson LytleApril 20, 2017
Originally published at www.circa1865.com The conservative and noble Christian civilization of the South described below…
Bernard ThuersamApril 18, 2017
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. — THOMAS JEFFERSON…
Clyde WilsonApril 12, 2017
The Age of Enlightenment represented the Middle Ages as a Gothic night—an interlude of ignorance…
Francis Butler SimkinsApril 11, 2017
On the morning of July 5, 1880, Colonel E.B.C. Cash and Colonel William M. Shannon…
Charles GoolsbyMarch 24, 2017
Order of the Southern Cross Banquet, Sons of Confederate Veterans National Reunion, Asheville, North Carolina,…
Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2017
Why the South Will Survive, by Fifteen Southerners. Edited by Clyde N. Wilson. Athens: The…
Jeffrey St. JohnMarch 21, 2017
Want to learn about one of the greatest statesmen that the United States has ever…
Clyde WilsonMarch 17, 2017
According to the modern historical establishment, John C. Calhoun is the ultimate American villain. These…
Brion McClanahanMarch 14, 2017
The Fiction of Mr. Simms gave indication, we repeat, of genius, and that of no…
Clyde WilsonMarch 2, 2017
Every so often, a candid examination of current events makes famous incidents in American history…
Dave BennerFebruary 24, 2017
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington stare silently at one another across the reflecting pool on…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 22, 2017
John Oller, The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution (Da Capo Press,…
Jeff RogersFebruary 20, 2017
Early in February, the City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia voted 3-2 to remove a bronze…
Allan BrownfieldFebruary 14, 2017
I am always glad to talk about my favourite subject–-John C. Calhoun. I think it…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 8, 2017
Every historian has a viewpoint, shaped by his own background, values, and perception of the…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 18, 2017
In our time, we think we know a lot about presidential cover-ups. There was Nixon's…
William H. HunterJanuary 9, 2017
William S. Belko, Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew’s…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 6, 2017
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Second…
John MarquardtJanuary 5, 2017
American historians often write of a contrast between the South, a closed reactionary society, and…
Guy Story BrownJanuary 3, 2017
Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina told a friend in 1980 that, "I'm bound to…
Brion McClanahanDecember 30, 2016
Dr. Clyde Wilson on "American Culture: Virginia or Massachusetts?" at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer…
Clyde WilsonDecember 28, 2016
Dr. Donald Livingston on "When the South Was America, 1607-1861" at the 2016 Abbeville Institute…
Donald LivingstonDecember 27, 2016
The 1861-65 war destroyed the American South’s economic, legal, political and social systems, and afterward…
Bernard ThuersamDecember 22, 2016
This essay was presented at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When I was young…
Karen StokesDecember 21, 2016
—there was no television; and then when there was one station on two hours a…
Clyde WilsonDecember 20, 2016
General Richard Taylor was only son of President Zachary Taylor. His father and mother were…
Dabney H. MauryDecember 16, 2016
It is generally thought that when the earliest Homo sapiens arrived on the scene in Africa…
John MarquardtDecember 9, 2016
A biographer defined Francis Butler Simkins as "one of the most interesting intellectual forces of…
Grady McWhineyNovember 8, 2016
But I oppose war, not simply on the patriotic ground of a citizen looking to…
John C. CalhounNovember 3, 2016
Every student of history knows at least a brief sketch of the Whiskey Rebellion of…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 23, 2016
The mission of the Abbeville Institute, to redeem what is worthwhile in the Southern tradition,…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 22, 2016
Published in honor of James Jackson's birthday, September 21. Delivered in Savannah, in February, 1806,…
Thomas U.P. CharltonSeptember 21, 2016
This essay was originally published at The Imaginative Conservative and is published here in honor…
Bradley J. BirzerSeptember 19, 2016
(13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
The Roman historian Titus Livius once called Rome “the greatest nation in the world.” He…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 9, 2016
Call me simple... But I don’t understand: Why the government spends billions on welfare but…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 7, 2016
Late in August 1965, a young boy not yet eight-years-old stood with his father on…
Mark G. MalvasiSeptember 6, 2016
This article was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1997. "Being a Southerner is…
William CawthonSeptember 1, 2016
Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the symposium I'll Take My Stand, only three are…
Andrew Nelson LytleAugust 23, 2016
In 1935 the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) constructed Confederate Memorial Hall as a…
Philip LeighAugust 22, 2016
General Lee was a soldier and leader of men, not a politician. Although several of…
Clyde WilsonAugust 10, 2016
In a recent Huffington Post video, director-turned-historian Gary Ross, of the film “Free State of…
Ryan WaltersAugust 8, 2016
Editor's Note: This article was originally published at The Southern Literary Review and is an…
Allen MendenhallAugust 5, 2016
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