A review of Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 (Abbeville Institute Press,…
Dave BennerAugust 10, 2021
A decisive moment is coming for the peoples of the States, especially for those who…
Walt GarlingtonApril 10, 2019
The "fake news" pejorative has become commonplace in modern public discourse, so much so that…
Brion McClanahanApril 27, 2017
Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…
Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Second…
John MarquardtJanuary 5, 2017
Mainstream historians are both an incestuous and snarky bunch. They latch on to trends--fads really--and…
Brion McClanahanAugust 4, 2016
As Southern States seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America,…
Marshall DeRosaApril 19, 2016
This essay is the introduction to Mr. Kilpatrick's The Sovereign States (Regnery, 1957). AMONG the…
James J. KilpatrickApril 8, 2016
I am writing in response to the recently posted piece at the Minneapolis Star Tribune,…
Dave BennerDecember 14, 2015
Catalonia has voted to secede from Spain. This is a remarkable development in modern…
Brion McClanahanNovember 16, 2015
The reader has perceived that the question concerning state powers, is condensed in the word…
John Taylor of CarolineNovember 10, 2015
The following is an abridged version of a chapter which will appear in the…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 25, 2015
This may be done by enlarging and extending the powers conferred by a liberal construction,…
Oran Milo RobertsJuly 14, 2015
In one of Henry James’s less unreadable novels, The Bostonians, the hero is Basil Ransom,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 8, 2015
This essay is published in honor of Abel P. Upshur's birthday, June 17, 1790. Today,…
James Rutledge RoeschJune 17, 2015
On November 21, 1793, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill titled “An Act…
Marshall DeRosaJune 15, 2015
This speech was delivered before the annual meeting of the Georgia Bar Association at Tybee…
Henry St. George Tucker IIIJune 12, 2015
Delivered as the commencement address for South Carolina College, 1887. What theme is most fitting…
John Randolph TuckerJune 11, 2015
This speech was given to the Young Men's Society of Lynchburg, August 26, 1838. I…
Nathaniel Beverley TuckerJune 10, 2015
If any American today were to listen to the nationalists in charge of either the…
Brion McClanahanJune 8, 2015
John Cussons had enough. It was 1897, and for thirty-two years he had watched as…
Brion McClanahanMarch 13, 2015
States’ rights may have been the defining force in Antebellum America, but modern, mainstream historians…
James Rutledge RoeschDecember 19, 2014
In honor of John Taylor's birthday, December 19. From Tyranny Unmasked: “The rival remedy for our…
W. Kirk WoodDecember 19, 2014
This essay was first published at Unz Review on November 23, 2014. Back in 1975…
Boyd CatheyDecember 17, 2014
Among the various moral reform and benevolence movements in the Jacksonian Era such as temperance,…
Forrest L. MarionNovember 27, 2014
Many current Americans, indeed perhaps most, regard the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861…
Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2014
It is a strange fact of modern American culture that when looking at famous people…
Carl JonesOctober 6, 2014
Part III of a Four Part Series by the Legal Scholar Spencer Roane written in…
Spencer RoaneSeptember 8, 2014
“The Civil War was fought over slavery.” If you want verification of this “known” fact,…
James Ronald KennedySeptember 2, 2014
To the Editor of the Enquirer: According to the regular course of legal proceedings I…
Spencer RoaneSeptember 1, 2014
This is Part I of four letters that originally appeared in the Richmond Enquirer in…
Spencer RoaneAugust 21, 2014
While cleaning my study the other day I ran across my copy of a $10.00…
James Ronald KennedyAugust 18, 2014
Speech of Hon. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama. From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, July 31, 1894…
Joseph WheelerJune 27, 2014
This piece originally appeared in the North American Review, February 1890. To DO justice to…
Jefferson DavisJune 6, 2014
Part III from a section of Dr. Scott Trask's work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives.…
H. A. Scott TraskMay 13, 2014
Part II from a section of Dr. Scott Trask's work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives.…
H. A. Scott TraskMay 6, 2014
Part I from a section of Dr. Scott Trask's work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives.…
H. A. Scott TraskMay 3, 2014
This lecture was delivered at the 1995 Ludvig von Mises seminar "Secession, State, and Economy"…
Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2014
This lecture was delivered at the 2011 Ludvig von Mises Scholar's Conference in Auburn, AL.…
Marshall DeRosaApril 8, 2014
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