In 1860 your average Southerner did not have, by far, the same worldview as his…
Al BensonSeptember 28, 2022
Memory is the thing with which we forget. I tend to believe that Memory lives…
Brandon MeeksJuly 28, 2022
Some people won’t believe in something they haven’t seen, others refuse to believe in something…
Brandon MeeksJune 23, 2022
As I grow older my appreciation for the wisdom of my parents increases. As the…
Earl StarbuckJune 16, 2022
Neither side in the War for Southern Independence produced a finer or more morally upright…
Samuel W. MitchamApril 28, 2022
In his 1903 book, The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney, Thomas Cary Johnson…
Miles FoltermannJanuary 27, 2022
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,/ Rough-hew them how we will.” - Hamlet V,…
Thomas HubertNovember 22, 2021
Many years ago I spent five fantastic weeks in Boston during the fall. Though I…
Casey ChalkNovember 15, 2021
A review of Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict (Reformation Zion Publishing, 2021) by…
Darrell DowNovember 9, 2021
A review of Our Comfort in Dying (Sola Fide Publications, 2021), R. L. Dabney and…
Forrest L. MarionAugust 24, 2021
Editor's Note: In an effort to "explore what is true and valuable in the Southern…
Robert Y. DrakeAugust 3, 2021
I have been studying the War Between the States for 53 years. In all those…
Timothy A. DuskinJuly 8, 2021
While Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation Theology are 20th century creations, the cultural and…
James (Jim) PedersonMay 26, 2021
A review of Preachers with Power: Four Stalwarts of the South (Banner of Truth, 1992)…
Karen StokesMay 4, 2021
In the Year of Our Lord 2021, it is fashionable for American Christians to despise…
Earl StarbuckApril 22, 2021
What would you give in exchange for your soul? Bluegrass greats Bill Monroe and Doc…
Casey ChalkFebruary 8, 2021
A review of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values…
Zachary GarrisDecember 8, 2020
When asked why he was a Catholic, Southern author Walker Percy liked to provocatively respond,…
Casey ChalkOctober 28, 2020
I have written here before about the history and mechanics of Sacred Harp singing, shape-notes,…
Tom DanielJuly 29, 2020
Presbyterianism has a rich legacy in American history. The Presbyterian church was founded in Scotland…
Zachary GarrisMay 12, 2020
Especially in unsettling times, it is helpful for Christians to examine the lives of faithful…
Forrest L. MarionApril 29, 2020
Daniel Baker (1791-1857) is all but forgotten today, but in the first half of the…
Karen StokesMarch 11, 2020
There are few Southern hearts that still fail to skip a beat or two when…
John MarquardtDecember 13, 2019
The role of religion, specifically evangelical protestant religion in the North, is frequently emphasized by…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 22, 2019
A review of Faith and Fury: The Rise of Catholicism During the Civil War (Ewtn…
Jerry SalyerOctober 1, 2019
Southerners, of all Americans, have been the most acute and the most persistent in their…
Boyd CatheySeptember 9, 2019
This essay was presented at our 2019 Summer School on the New South. Fundamentalism is…
John DevannyAugust 14, 2019
A review of Dabney on Fire: A Theology of Parenting, Education, Feminism, and Government (2019)…
Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2019
The writings of Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) often read like prophecy. After the War Between…
Zachary GarrisJune 19, 2019
Catholic and non-Catholic Southerners alike have reason to mourn the loss of Father James Schall,…
Jerry SalyerMay 30, 2019
Jabez Lafayette Monroe Curry was one of the major political figures of the Old South.…
John ChodesMay 6, 2019
A Review of Sacred Conviction: The South’s Stand for Biblical Authority (Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by…
Garrett AgajanianApril 23, 2019
On a February 2017 episode of televangelist Pat Robertson’s “The 700 club,” a viewer sent…
Michael MartinMarch 8, 2019
A review of Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861 (University…
John DevannyJanuary 15, 2019
I recently traveled with ten undergraduate students to the Conference on Faith and History (CFH)…
Samuel C. SmithNovember 8, 2018
In 21st–century America, it’s difficult to imagine life without the ability to access information at…
Forrest L. MarionOctober 26, 2018
In his important 1994 work, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism,…
Forrest L. MarionJuly 6, 2018
Eminent historian Dr. Clyde Wilson in one of his many books on American history expresses…
Jonathan HarrisApril 11, 2018
From its port side northern Kentucky’s foremost tourist attraction looks exactly like a real vessel,…
Jerry SalyerNovember 30, 2017
On October 31, while many parents whisk their little ones from house to house in…
Jonathan HarrisOctober 30, 2017
In 2015, Todd Horwitz posted an article on on the Ron Paul-sponsored website Voices of…
Joe WolvertonSeptember 14, 2017
Many of the destructive ideas and “isms” of our century in America had their roots…
Karen StokesMarch 13, 2017
The rejection of the old Prayer Book was something like the demolition of a historic…
Cleanth BrooksMarch 7, 2017
William Porcher DuBose of South Carolina is not well known today, but in the early…
Karen StokesDecember 15, 2016
Anyone who has grown up in the melting pot of immigrant religiosity of the industrial…
Stephen BorthwickOctober 20, 2016
Last week’s vote (June 2016) to repudiate the Battle Flag by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)…
Ben ThompsonAugust 16, 2016
The United States Constitution does not contain the words “separation of church and state,” nor…
Dave BennerAugust 12, 2016
It appears that the abstractions of the Enlightenment have over the last five-hundred years been…
Robert M. PetersJuly 15, 2016
Lately there has been mention of Dr. Thomas Smyth in two Abbeville Institute blog and…
Karen StokesJune 23, 2016
Fr John Strickland, reflecting on the Renaissance of Western Europe, wrote, . . . For…
Walt GarlingtonJune 21, 2016
At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the…
M.E. BradfordJune 14, 2016
Benjamin Franklin White, born 1800 in South Carolina, was a Southern music pioneer. His collection…
Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2016
From time to time an unsuspecting tourist visiting the ruins of the Old Sheldon Church…
Gail JarvisMarch 22, 2016
A slightly different version of this essay is Chapter Eleven in Brion McClanahan, The Politically…
Brion McClanahanMarch 17, 2016
History is a liberal art and one profits by studying the whole of it, including…
Richard M. WeaverNovember 26, 2015
In the eighteenth century, each of the British North American colonies that later formed the…
Forrest L. MarionSeptember 8, 2015
This essay was first published in Southern Partisan in the Winter, 1985. Southerners rarely while…
Forrest McDonaldAugust 6, 2015
The God-fearing, Bible-reading, hymn-singing Confederate army grew out of a Southern soil well cultivated during…
Eugene GenoveseMay 5, 2015
These are challenging times for the Christian patriot, as evidenced by controversies over recent renditions…
Marshall DeRosaApril 28, 2015
INTRODUCTION It is dangerous to attempt an article on a topic so relevant and current.…
Jacob ShatzerApril 21, 2015
Among the various moral reform and benevolence movements in the Jacksonian Era such as temperance,…
Forrest L. MarionNovember 27, 2014
Whatever happened to Western civilization? Somehow, Christians have lost ground in every cultural area of…
Valerie ProtopapasNovember 25, 2014
People in the South who are intuitively attuned to its culture and history suspect that…
A. J. ConyersOctober 20, 2014
"The very axioms of American politics now are, that "all men are by nature equal,"…
Robert Lewis DabneyJuly 30, 2014
Leonidas Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806, the son and grandson of…
Roger BusbiceMay 6, 2014
General Richard S. Ewell had a reputation for being a heavy drinker, foul mouthed, and…
Carl JonesApril 8, 2014
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