Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated…
John DevannyOctober 26, 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
When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won…
Sam FrancisOctober 13, 2021
This essay was originally published in the August 1995 issue of Chronicles magazine. Some folks…
John Shelton ReedOctober 12, 2021
The routine removal of Confederate statues signifies a new stage in the evolution of political…
Philip LeighOctober 11, 2021
The locusts descend upon the land. Not the literal ones, but a kind much worse,…
Travis HoltOctober 7, 2021
The following is an excerpt from an article by a man named Troy Cauley. It…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 1, 2021
A lot has happened in the last 20 years. Reflecting on the terrorist attack on…
Lola SanchezSeptember 24, 2021
We’ve all heard some cliché joke about ‘voices in our head’, usually posted over and…
Travis HoltSeptember 23, 2021
Regarding Afghanistan. There is nothing to say that has not been said better by those,…
Enoch CadeSeptember 20, 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
Biblical history tells us that Abrahamic monotheism, the foundation of not only Judaism but Christianity…
John MarquardtSeptember 9, 2021
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…
Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
Originally published in the March 1998 issue of Reason magazine. Local busybodies target the front…
John Shelton ReedAugust 30, 2021
In this fifth installment of the series “What Makes This Musician Great,” we will travel…
Tom DanielAugust 25, 2021
Americans have a weird relationship with their roots. Most folk want to be from somewhere,…
Casey ChalkAugust 23, 2021
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of…
Valerie ProtopapasAugust 19, 2021
The opponents of Southern heritage often repeat the trope: “You lost, get over it.” One…
Rev. Larry BeaneAugust 17, 2021
Growing up in mostly-rural North Carolina, most of my friends and especially their parents could…
Boyd CatheyAugust 16, 2021
In this third installment of the series “What Makes this Musician Great,” I will try…
Tom DanielAugust 11, 2021
This essay was originally published in the February 1936 issue of The American Review. Years…
Frank L. OwlsleyAugust 5, 2021
Editor's Note: In an effort to "explore what is true and valuable in the Southern…
Robert Y. DrakeAugust 3, 2021
I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 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
It is maddening to listen to people who attempt “conservative thought” with but a shallow…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 21, 2021
If timid and pacified Southerners needed more proof that we are a defeated and occupied…
James Ronald KennedyJuly 20, 2021
Many Southerners are familiar with James “Ron” Kennedy and his brother, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, who…
Boyd CatheyJuly 19, 2021
Hit mus’ be now de kingdom comin’, an’ de year ob Jubilo! ... (1) "Liberty,…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.July 13, 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
The solution offered by Mr Vivek Ramaswamy to the destructive ideology of the Woke Social…
Walt GarlingtonJuly 2, 2021
The Southern version of Thoreau’s Walden may be considered I’ll Take by Stand, by Twelve…
Charles Stewart Roberts, MDJuly 1, 2021
In past columns I have written about some classic films, some of which have been…
Boyd CatheyJune 30, 2021
Facebook canceled the Abbeville Institute. I was notified on June 10 that the Abbeville Institute…
Brion McClanahanJune 28, 2021
We all, as we go through life, encounter people that who deserve to be remembered.…
Travis HoltJune 25, 2021
Sometimes readers will ask me: “Why did you write on that? What were you trying to…
Boyd CatheyJune 17, 2021
The Federalist online magazine has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost…
Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2021
I once wrote an article on the problems arising from what I termed “group condemnation.”…
Valerie ProtopapasJune 8, 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
“How time changes everything.” This quote came from the lips of a fairly surprised man…
Travis HoltMay 28, 2021
Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…
Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…
Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
For Christmas, I gave my granddaughter a compilation of Eudora Welty’s novels. She’s an avid…
Averyell A. KesslerMay 21, 2021
In 1960, the great Southern political philosopher Richard Weaver penned an essay titled “Conservatism and…
Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2021
Continued from Part 2. “He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a…
Earl StarbuckMay 5, 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
Like many traditional-minded people of this era, I have become disenchanted with products of the…
Anne Wilson SmithApril 20, 2021
The spring of 1850 is an ominous perpetrator. Notwithstanding the crisis our country faced during…
Brad PondApril 16, 2021
Major League Baseball on 2 April announced that both the All Star Game and the…
Casey ChalkApril 8, 2021
Sometimes, you need to go halfway around the world in order to make a point,…
Tom DanielMarch 31, 2021
Any fool can write history, and many do. Please do not assume that I mean…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2021
A white house sits on the outskirts of a small town in upstate South Carolina.…
Tom HerveyMarch 26, 2021
I read this piece to the Jackson Writers Guild a year ago. Since then, we’ve…
Averyell A. KesslerMarch 19, 2021
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered before the Senate on March 12, 1910, at the…
Henry Cabot LodgeMarch 18, 2021
As part of its campaign to pander to the important and urgent needs of African-Americans…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 12, 2021
These past several years, we Americans have been living in an accelerating anti-cultural vortex. Day…
Jason MorganMarch 10, 2021
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which He hath made…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.March 5, 2021
During last week’s ice storm misery, I thought a lot about my southern upbringing and…
Averyell A. KesslerMarch 4, 2021
If these were normal times, we’d all be unpacking our Mardi Gras gear right about…
Tom DanielFebruary 16, 2021
The year 2020 was brutal for the friends of the South. Monuments and statues of…
John DevannyFebruary 3, 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
Rock ‘n Roll may be the most significant cultural export in American history. There is…
Tom DanielJanuary 27, 2021
It is a sad thing that it should fall to a junior representative from New…
Tom HerveyJanuary 22, 2021
The old saying: “American by birth, Southern by the grace of God” certainly applies to…
Rev. Larry BeaneJanuary 21, 2021
A review of Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books, 2018) by…
Duncan KillenJanuary 20, 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
A review of Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (LSU…
Jason StewartJanuary 12, 2021
“The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence,” observed Southern Gothic…
Casey ChalkJanuary 11, 2021
The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute Jan 4-8, 2021 Topics: Political Correctness, Southern…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 9, 2021
In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute…
Forrest L. MarionJanuary 7, 2021
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Joseph R. StrombergDecember 23, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Joseph R. StrombergDecember 23, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Jack TrotterDecember 22, 2020
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
Jack TrotterDecember 22, 2020
Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in…
John DevannyDecember 18, 2020
Most all of us who were fortunate enough to know our Grandfather has experienced his…
Travis HoltDecember 15, 2020
Earlier this year, shortly after the sad and unfortunate death of George Floyd in Minneapolis,…
Casey ChalkDecember 10, 2020
All-too-often, seemingly buried in the myriad dates and statistics of history, lies the human experience…
Travis ArchieDecember 9, 2020
In the late 19th century, Romantic composers were driven by nationalism as a means to…
Tom DanielDecember 4, 2020
The life of a man is something that runs deep in all history. Before the…
Travis HoltNovember 30, 2020
Edited by Robert Hoyle. A Discourse delivered at the Annual Commencement of Hampden-Sydney College, June…
Robert Lewis DabneyNovember 25, 2020
The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. New Edition for the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 24, 2020
It happened on Saturday morning, November 14, 2020, at around 8:15 EST. I had switched…
Boyd CatheyNovember 18, 2020
It is not often enough, but I do set aside blocks of time to express…
Joshua DoggrellNovember 12, 2020
‘There has always been this fallacious belief: “It would not be the same here; here…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 11, 2020
‘The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books,…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 4, 2020
As some business owners and residents on King Street described it, “Charleston was raped” on…
Stewart O. JonesOctober 30, 2020
There’s a popular meme floating around the internet that has a middle-aged, pot-bellied, suburban male…
Christopher J. CarterOctober 29, 2020
Through the centuries since Jamestown was founded, the South has held certain values, virtues, and…
Earl StarbuckOctober 26, 2020
The Southern Tradition is not something easily defined in a few words. Its specific formulation…
Mike GoodloeOctober 23, 2020
Some people come from the “the land down under”. I come from the land “where…
Barbara MarthalOctober 15, 2020
Since 2015, it has become standard fare for the left to accuse President Trump of…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 7, 2020
Coming from a small, truly united community, I have many places that are dear to…
Travis HoltOctober 2, 2020
Sampson County is a large, mostly rural county in southeastern North Carolina. Like most non-metropolitan…
Boyd CatheySeptember 30, 2020
From The Land We Love, V, no. I (May 1868), 25-34, edited by Joseph S.…
Robert Lewis DabneySeptember 25, 2020
Reminiscences and Ramblings of a Novice Wing-Shooter It was the First of September, 2019 and…
Travis ArchieSeptember 24, 2020
Not long after I moved my family to Bangkok, Thailand — where we lived for…
Casey ChalkSeptember 23, 2020
Travel writing about the American South is a genre of its own. One such observer…
Mike GoodloeSeptember 22, 2020
“Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land, doesn't mean…
Travis HoltSeptember 21, 2020
What if there were 15.3 million dead American soldiers? Imagine it. Legions of the unburied…
Duncan KillenSeptember 15, 2020
“The blues ain’t nothin’ but a good man feelin’ bad,” according to “Negro Blues,” penned…
Casey ChalkSeptember 9, 2020
A review of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (University of California Press, 2014) by Nadine…
Joshua DoggrellSeptember 8, 2020
Have any of you all heard about the film, "General Orders No. 9" ? It's…
Alphonse-Louis VinhAugust 31, 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
I was raised in one of the poorest counties in North West Arkansas, where my…
Travis HoltAugust 18, 2020
“Madam, don't bring your sons up to detest the United States Government. Recollect that we…
Gerald LefurgyAugust 17, 2020
A Yankee is a creature without a civilization. Having no people, no breeding, no past,…
Jason MorganAugust 12, 2020
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 10, 2020
How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These…
James Rutledge RoeschJuly 27, 2020
Pietas, the most Roman of virtues, referred to the duty owed to one’s country, parents,…
John DevannyJuly 13, 2020
Editor's Note: The Abbeville Institute does not endorse or support the views of Alexander Dugin…
Walt GarlingtonJune 30, 2020
As someone who came to the Southern Conservative tradition late this moment feels very strange.…
Aaron GleasonJune 26, 2020
I am desperately trying to sooth a despaired and troubled heart. What’s the source of…
Barbara MarthalJune 19, 2020
Last week Governor Ralph Northam announced his plan to remove the iconic statue of Robert…
Paul GottfriedJune 12, 2020
Since 1960, the racist identity politics of the left has politicized and degraded American history…
Gene Kizer, Jr.June 9, 2020
I first met Dr. Clyde Wilson in February 2018 at an Abbeville Institute conference in…
Dissident MamaJune 1, 2020
Part of the blood that flows through the veins of the Southern ethnos is French…
Walt GarlingtonMay 26, 2020
Union and liberty are not two terms most people associate with John C. Calhoun, a…
John GroveApril 20, 2020
I recently wrote that “our South still exists, and not only in our own hearts;…
Neil KumarApril 6, 2020
“Where you gonna be when half of California riots? Where you gonna run to when…
Brion McClanahanMarch 23, 2020
A review of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the…
Garrett AgajanianMarch 17, 2020
Fear not. Dixie lights are merely hiding under a bushel, as it says in the…
Barbara LawterFebruary 14, 2020
Theories of education in any land are never easily divorced from the prevailing ideas regarding…
Robert HoyleJanuary 15, 2020
As 2020 commences it is perhaps appropriate that we take stock—that we take a look…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 13, 2020
The culture war rages on. And what a war! There seems to be a new…
Donald LivingstonDecember 23, 2019
Back in 2015 when Dylan Roof shot those black folks in their church in Charleston,…
Al BensonDecember 18, 2019
A review of Burden of Dependency: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought (Johns Hopkins, 1992)…
Joseph R. StrombergDecember 17, 2019
I just finished seeing the movie trailer for the upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures film Richard…
C.W. RodenDecember 16, 2019
A review of Maxcy Gregg’s Sporting Journals, 1842-1858 (Green Altar Books, 2019) Suzanne Parfitt Johnson,…
John DevannyDecember 10, 2019
Early this past summer the historic Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, near the city of Charlotte,…
Boyd CatheyDecember 2, 2019
Many present-day Southerners—indeed, many of those Americans who call themselves “conservatives”—find it difficult to envisage…
Boyd CatheyNovember 14, 2019
There are really only two basic opinions when it comes to the world’s largest carving…
John MarquardtNovember 11, 2019
One of the two commandments the Lord Jesus Christ gave to His disciples to follow…
Walt GarlingtonNovember 8, 2019
In our turbulent times it is increasingly evident that our government is disconnected to the…
Boyd CatheyOctober 28, 2019
A review of The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate (University…
Tom RashOctober 22, 2019
The news media rarely, if ever, focuses on the impact on society and culture the…
Nicole WilliamsOctober 16, 2019
A review of Wendell Berry: Port William Novels and Stories (Library of America, 2018), Jack…
Rafael AlvarezOctober 15, 2019
I recently relocated--with any luck, temporarily--to a sprawling metroplex of a city of almost seven million,…
Leslie AlexanderOctober 14, 2019
A recent National Review column in the silly Northern War over 1619 contained this unfortunate…
Aaron GleasonOctober 10, 2019
From late 1983 until its fitful demise in the early 2000s, I served as a…
Boyd CatheySeptember 18, 2019
A review of The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994)…
Won KimSeptember 3, 2019
Lack of attachment to culture, heritage, and tradition is the death of a nation. As…
Nicole WilliamsAugust 28, 2019
A review of The C.S.A. Trilogy (Independent, 2018) by Howard Ray White. A beautiful thought…
Clyde WilsonAugust 27, 2019
Before there was any New England in the North, there was something very like Old…
Garrett AgajanianAugust 15, 2019
A review of Conserving America (St. Augustine Press, 2016) by Patrick J. Deneen Man has…
Jerry SalyerJuly 9, 2019
The image of Richard Weaver that sticks in my memory is a disturbing one. He…
Thomas LandessMay 3, 2019
A week ago Sunday—Easter Sunday, April 21—Aaron D. Wolf, Executive Editor of Chronicles Magazine, passed…
Boyd CatheyMay 1, 2019
Stretching from the Potomac River across the southeastern quarter of the United States in a…
Richard M. WeaverApril 22, 2019
“It is out of fashion these days to look backward rather than forward,” the poet…
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.April 17, 2019
In 1966, Senator Jim Eastland of Mississippi walked into the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked,…
Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2019
On a February 2017 episode of televangelist Pat Robertson’s “The 700 club,” a viewer sent…
Michael MartinMarch 8, 2019
Whoever weds himself to the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in…
Philip LeighMarch 7, 2019
During the weekend of 15 to 16 February, I had the great honor to represent…
Robert McReynoldsMarch 6, 2019
In the popular imagination the South is viewed as a region typified by racism, poverty,…
John DevannyFebruary 18, 2019
The Southern political tradition, in practice and theory, is one of its most valuable contributions…
Donald LivingstonJanuary 28, 2019
Many years ago the historian Francis Parkman wrote a passage in one of his narratives…
Richard M. WeaverJanuary 14, 2019
In 1875, Rev. Moses Drury Hoge stood before 40,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, at the…
Brion McClanahanDecember 21, 2018
The Abbeville Institute conducted three conferences this year on the fracturing of American national identity…
Donald LivingstonDecember 17, 2018
Nationalist Jeff Sessions gets canned and a nullifier takes his job. This is actually an…
Brion McClanahanNovember 14, 2018
The whole 20th century was a horrible time for the friends of tradition: the mild…
Walt GarlingtonSeptember 28, 2018
This spring thousands of graduates coming out of the high schools and colleges across the…
Walt GarlingtonMay 23, 2018
Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most lauded and applauded historians of the “conservative…
Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When historians discuss reasons for Southern secession,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 31, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. As scholars dedicated to exploring what is…
Brion McClanahanJuly 28, 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
A Review of M.E. Bradford, A Better Guide Than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution.…
Clyde WilsonMay 17, 2017
I have made a discovery. There does, indeed, exist a place where nobody wants to…
Harry HopeApril 21, 2017
A review of All Clever Men, Who Make Their Own Way: Critical Discourse in the…
Clyde WilsonApril 19, 2017
Originally published at www.circa1865.com The conservative and noble Christian civilization of the South described below…
Bernard ThuersamApril 18, 2017
I was born in the North. Nonetheless, I have instructed my attorney, a most honorable…
William GillApril 17, 2017
This essay was originally published in Louis D. Rubin, Jr., The American South: Portrait of a…
John Shelton ReedJune 30, 2016
This essay served as the concluding chapter to Page's biography of Robert E. Lee, published…
Thomas Nelson PageJanuary 25, 2016
The Week in Review, December 7-11, 2015, with your host, Brion McClanahan Topics: The origins…
Brion McClanahanDecember 12, 2015
History is a liberal art and one profits by studying the whole of it, including…
Richard M. WeaverNovember 26, 2015
Catalonia has voted to secede from Spain. This is a remarkable development in modern…
Brion McClanahanNovember 16, 2015
Recent attempts made by the left and the right to make Pope Francis one of…
Brion McClanahanOctober 1, 2015
The God-fearing, Bible-reading, hymn-singing Confederate army grew out of a Southern soil well cultivated during…
Eugene GenoveseMay 5, 2015
What exactly makes the South, the South? Hosts of scholars have puzzled mightily over this…
John DevannyFebruary 26, 2015
Tom Watson Brown was an icon of the Southern tradition and one of its strongest…
Donald LivingstonNovember 27, 2014
If you were to conjure up an image in your head of an exploitive, money-grubbing…
Tom DanielOctober 14, 2014
It has become fashionable among contemporary historians to claim that the Southern identity was fabricated…
Brion McClanahanAugust 12, 2014
Were it not such a looming and very possible prospect on our collective cultural horizon,…
Randall IveyJune 4, 2014
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