Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina was arguably one of the most important political figures…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 27, 2022
This piece was originally published at SavannahNow.com By H. Lee Cheek and Sean Busick America’s…
H. Lee Cheek, Jr.September 5, 2022
From Gustavus Pinckney, Life of John C. Calhoun. The attentive reader will not have forgotten…
Abbeville InstituteAugust 26, 2022
Why the red wave will NOT be. The typical contemporary Republicans lie for support, then…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 25, 2022
A review of Confessions of a Copperhead: Culture and Politics in the Modern South (Shotwell…
John DevannyAugust 18, 2022
The history of political parties in America is as old as the United States itself…
John MarquardtJuly 13, 2022
From the 2004 Abbeville Institute Summer School On April 10th, 1606, King James I of…
John GrahamJuly 7, 2022
From the 2003 Abbeville Institute Summer School. I’m going to be talking about the Anti-Federalists.…
Marco BassaniMay 23, 2022
Delivered by Oscar Underwood of Alabama in the House of Representatives May, 1902. Mr. UNDERWOOD.…
Oscar UnderwoodMay 5, 2022
This piece was originally published at Chronicles Magazine and is reprinted here by permission. The…
Paul GottfriedMay 2, 2022
There is a vast political swell among some ill-informed conservatives that the great mid-term elections…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 18, 2022
From Ryan Walters, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President (Abbeville Institute Press, 2021). “Equal and…
Ryan WaltersJanuary 26, 2022
Edmund Ruffin, from his Diary: hen the mob bears the sway in elections, it knows…
Abbeville InstituteJanuary 13, 2022
Is it un-patriotic for Southerners to question American military intervention? This is a perplexing question…
James Ronald KennedyDecember 29, 2021
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered in 1917 and was published in the September issue…
H.W. JohnstonNovember 19, 2021
The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the…
J. William FulbrightNovember 18, 2021
The current conservative populist movement appears to offer some hope of mounting an effective resistance…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 2, 2021
Editor's Note: United States Senator Thomas F. Bayard delivered this speech in January, 1875…
Thomas F. BayardOctober 29, 2021
Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated…
John DevannyOctober 26, 2021
When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won…
Sam FrancisOctober 13, 2021
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…
Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
Many Southerners are familiar with James “Ron” Kennedy and his brother, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, who…
Boyd CatheyJuly 19, 2021
In 1960, the great Southern political philosopher Richard Weaver penned an essay titled “Conservatism and…
Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2021
Abraham Lincoln has become, for most mainline conservatives, an icon, and, along with Martin Luther…
Boyd CatheyMay 3, 2021
Sometime back in the early sixties—climaxed in 1964 with Barry Goldwater’s efforts—the South with its…
Paul H. YarbroughFebruary 19, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 11-22, 2021 Topics: Reconciliation, Southern Politics,…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 23, 2021
It is a sad thing that it should fall to a junior representative from New…
Tom HerveyJanuary 22, 2021
A review of Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books, 2018) by…
Duncan KillenJanuary 20, 2021
You might call it propaganda, state lies, fraud, illusions or delusions. I prefer pretenses which…
Robert PetersJanuary 14, 2021
Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in…
John DevannyDecember 18, 2020
Editor's Note: This lecture was delivered at our 2019 Summer School on the New South.…
Carey RobertsDecember 16, 2020
‘The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books,…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 4, 2020
Will Rogers had a quip for just about any situation, but he loved to talk…
Brion McClanahanNovember 3, 2020
Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each…
Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2020
The question before us, ‘how did the writings of Blackstone influence American political philosophy, and…
Barry ClarkMay 13, 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 The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994)…
Won KimSeptember 3, 2019
Many who are well acquainted with Southern history are almost entirely unfamiliar with the historical…
William E. DoddJune 27, 2019
Original material for Southern history has been so scarce at the centres where American historiographers…
Ulrich B. PhillipsJune 26, 2019
A review of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of…
Brion McClanahanApril 2, 2019
Pat Caddell died on February 16. Several major news outlets ran stories about his influence…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 25, 2019
It was an indelible moment, one that has resonated with me up to the present…
Randall IveyFebruary 21, 2019
Texas will turn blue before it’s over with its local Neocons in charge. Former sports…
Paul H. YarbroughFebruary 1, 2019
The South is and always been conservative. But with the constant hammer of political correctness…
Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 18, 2019
The presidential election of 2016 gave promise to be a watershed in American politics. Donald…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2019
Why does congress have hearings for people who are paraded through their judiciary committee- noise…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 8, 2018
Jimmy Carter may have been the last Jeffersonian to be president. A recent article in…
Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2018
“Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty.…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 2, 2018
Is the South today a captive nation? Most Southerners would never consider the question—most likely…
James Ronald KennedyJuly 9, 2018
The Electoral College, a bulwark of federalism, is under attack. Straightforward abolition of the Electoral…
Michael ArnheimJune 28, 2018
“When you are up to your hindquarters in alligators—it is hard to remember that your…
James Ronald KennedyMay 28, 2018
“It was my first introduction to damn Yankees,” my oldest sister remarked of her first…
Dissident MamaMay 16, 2018
With the current heated debate over gun rights and the 2nd Amendment of the United…
Lewis LibermanMarch 9, 2018
A review of Remember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Inspired a…
Paul GottfriedFebruary 6, 2018
At the base of most of the ongoing political debates currently raging in the United…
Boyd CatheySeptember 20, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. As scholars dedicated to exploring what is…
Brion McClanahanJuly 28, 2017
The Left is wringing its hands and talking about impeachment because of the Comey firing,…
Christina JeffreyMay 23, 2017
As readers of this column well know, I have never really trusted the Republican Party.…
Thomas LandessApril 6, 2017
Andy Jackson's famous toast, "The Union—it must and shall be preserved," is still recorded in…
Thomas FlemingApril 3, 2017
The terms “liberal” and “conservative” were usable signs in a society in which the state…
Clyde WilsonDecember 8, 2016
When I was active in College Democrats at my small state college, in the early…
R.M. StanglerSeptember 30, 2016
The Republican party is no more republican then the Democratic party is democratic. Both are…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 26, 2016
Call me simple... But I don’t understand: Why the government spends billions on welfare but…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 7, 2016
This article was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1997. "Being a Southerner is…
William CawthonSeptember 1, 2016
Twenty-three Republican Senators joined a large majority of Democrats to vote for the Bush bill…
Clyde WilsonAugust 31, 2016
Southerners (and there are many who still proudly spell that with a capital “S” even…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 25, 2016
The New South is one of the more misunderstood periods in American history. The contemporary…
Brion McClanahanAugust 11, 2016
Never knew for sure where the expression came from that my grandmother voiced to my…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 9, 2016
This essay appeared in the 1984 winter issue of Southern Partisan magazine. In the best…
John William CorringtonJuly 26, 2016
This piece was originally published in Chronicles Magazine, October 2012. “O Fame, O Fame! Many…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2016
Once again, it is politicking time in the good ol’ US of A. The Democrats,…
John DevannyMarch 24, 2016
The origin of the elephant as a symbol of the Republican Party occurred in 1874…
John MarquardtFebruary 9, 2016
I promised to keep you updated on our government’s radio ads. In the latest, the…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 3, 2016
Throughout most of American history region has been a better predictor of political position than…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 27, 2016
Gentlemen of the Historical Society of Mecklenburg (1876): Our president has appropriately introduced the series…
Daniel Harvey HillDecember 15, 2015
History is a liberal art and one profits by studying the whole of it, including…
Richard M. WeaverNovember 26, 2015
This piece was originally published at The American Conservative. When John William Corrington died in…
Allen MendenhallOctober 29, 2015
This article is reprinted from Edward Spencer, An Outline Public Life and Services Of Thomas F. Bayard, Senator…
Edward SpencerOctober 27, 2015
“Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat, They oughta get a rich man to vote…
John DevannyOctober 19, 2015
Source: Washington Post There are several attributes of Donald Trump’s bid for the U.S. Presidency…
Marshall DeRosaSeptember 2, 2015
In one of Henry James’s less unreadable novels, The Bostonians, the hero is Basil Ransom,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 8, 2015
It is not necessary to detail Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn Jenner. Suffice it to…
Marshall DeRosaJuly 2, 2015
The awful Obama is pushing terrible things on our country like socialised medicine, big spending,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 1, 2015
On November 21, 1793, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill titled “An Act…
Marshall DeRosaJune 15, 2015
The recent riots in Baltimore gave most Americans pause as they struggled to make sense…
John DevannyMay 15, 2015
The title of this article is how the radical Muslim organization, ISIS, characterizes its…
Gail JarvisMay 14, 2015
Maryland Redeemed Everybody knows that our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was written by Francis…
Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2015
“We the people” of Dixie are in a unique position in today’s America. We are,…
James Ronald KennedyApril 23, 2015
The phrase, "The New South", appears in the 1886 speech that Atlanta newspaper editor, Henry…
Gail JarvisApril 6, 2015
This piece is taken from Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson Forgotten Conservatives in American History.…
Brion McClanahanMarch 31, 2015
In honor of John Tyler's birthday (March 29), I thought it proper to include a…
Dave BennerMarch 30, 2015
"When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game; that those who…
Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 2015
Born in 1782 near Abbeville, South Carolina, Calhoun's educational opportunities were limited, albeit advanced by…
H. Lee Cheek, Jr.March 18, 2015
The lack of interest in the film "Selma" by both the public and the film…
Gail JarvisFebruary 6, 2015
To the chagrin and mortification of many liberals, Rolling Stone magazine had to apologize for…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJanuary 14, 2015
The defeat of liberal Democrat Mary Landrieu removed the Deep South’s last Democratic U.S. Senator.…
James Ronald KennedyDecember 11, 2014
Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast believes “It’s Time to Dump Dixie.” Please do. He…
Brion McClanahanDecember 10, 2014
Events over the past several days in Ferguson, MO, should not surprise those familiar with…
Marshall DeRosaAugust 19, 2014
While cleaning my study the other day I ran across my copy of a $10.00…
James Ronald KennedyAugust 18, 2014
Judged by the quality of the men it brought to power the eighteenth-century Virginia way…
Charles S. SydnorApril 23, 2014
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