Below is a footnote-free version of the Preface from my U. S. Grant's Failed Presidency…
Philip LeighJune 20, 2022
Lest we forget, it has been nineteen years since the film “Gods and Generals” was…
Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2022
From the 2003 Abbeville Institute Summer School I come from a somewhat different mold and…
Marshall DeRosaJune 6, 2022
On a recent visit to Abbeville, South Carolina I visited the Burt-Stark House, one of…
Thomas HubertMay 20, 2022
Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873 – 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor…
Valerie ProtopapasMay 19, 2022
A Review of Blacks in Gray Uniforms (Arcadia, 2018) by Phillip Thomas Tucker South Carolina…
Karen StokesMay 18, 2022
The best of the many Confederate memoirs, in my opinion, are those of General Richard…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2022
Delivered at the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park for the Confederate Memorial Day remembrance held…
Martin O'TooleMay 12, 2022
It has been over a century and a half since Lincoln’s assassination did much to…
Shaan ShandhuMay 9, 2022
A recent article in the politically conservative National Review about Ulysses Grant’s presidency by historian…
Philip LeighMay 3, 2022
Neither side in the War for Southern Independence produced a finer or more morally upright…
Samuel W. MitchamApril 28, 2022
Today is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama. Most Americans believe the War and Southern history…
Brion McClanahanApril 25, 2022
Mr. President--I fully concur with the gentleman from Montgomery, in the propriety of immediately passing…
Lewis M. StoneApril 20, 2022
A line from Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” In the case of the great…
John MarquardtApril 12, 2022
Part 4 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2022
In April 1861, a public meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana to discuss Governor…
Shane AndersonMarch 28, 2022
At the writing of this article, the ongoing struggle between Ukraine and Russia has most…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyMarch 23, 2022
Part 3 in Clyde Wilson's series "African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective." Read Part 1 and…
Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2022
Originally published in the Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 16. 1888 While the Virginia Convention…
William A. ObenchainMarch 4, 2022
ACADEMIA'S ABSOLUTE PROOF that the War Between the States was fought over slavery is based…
Gene Kizer, Jr.February 25, 2022
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are things which have lain undiscovered,…
Karen StokesFebruary 23, 2022
As far back as the days of ancient Greece and Rome, people have dreamed of…
John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2022
The opening of this essay is from my segment of the documentary Searching for Lincoln…
Valerie ProtopapasFebruary 8, 2022
This essay was originally published in the First Quarter 1992 issue of Southern Partisan. A…
David BovenizerJanuary 19, 2022
After 200 years of digesting Enlightenment ideals of natural rights, and reciting a pledge that…
Rod O'BarrJanuary 12, 2022
But most significant of all was the attitude assumed by the Federal Government in dealing…
William Edward Hartpole LeckyJanuary 11, 2022
Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal along with Tesla’s Elon Musk and an early Facebook…
Philip LeighJanuary 6, 2022
The true legacy of Lincoln usually gets drowned in the perennial gush about a president…
Ilana MercerJanuary 5, 2022
“That the negroes did not revolt is one of the incomprehensible features of our Civil…
Rod O'BarrJanuary 4, 2022
In a speech to the Georgia legislature in 1866, Former Vice President of the Confederacy…
Donald LivingstonDecember 27, 2021
A few more words, and we shall be in a condition to answer the question…
Raphael SemmesDecember 1, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life (Random House, 2021) by Allen Guelzo “How…
Casey ChalkNovember 23, 2021
Missouri celebrated her 160th anniversary of her secession from the Union on October 28. It…
Wes FranklinNovember 4, 2021
A review of When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern…
Terry HulseyOctober 19, 2021
Thomas Carlyle said that it takes men of worth to recognize worth in men (1).…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.October 4, 2021
Who has not heard of Wounded Knee? Most know at least the general facts surrounding…
Valerie ProtopapasSeptember 28, 2021
My wife, Elizabeth, comes from a village called Greenwich in northern New York state. Among…
Barton CockeySeptember 27, 2021
L. Q. C. LAMAR TO THE VICKSBURG COMMITTEE OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 5, 1870. To Col.…
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus LamarSeptember 1, 2021
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses…
Michael R. BradleyAugust 27, 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
During the past thirty years most historians claim that slavery was the dominant cause of…
Philip LeighAugust 13, 2021
That Southern secession was ultimately about independence with or without slavery is easily determined by…
Rod O'BarrAugust 12, 2021
The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2-17) are the creed of both Christians…
John MarquardtAugust 9, 2021
The date of the latest federal holiday, June 19th, was touted as the one marking…
John MarquardtJuly 14, 2021
I have been studying the War Between the States for 53 years. In all those…
Timothy A. DuskinJuly 8, 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
A review of Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (University Press of Kansas,…
Terry HulseyJune 29, 2021
“The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised,”…
Casey ChalkJune 23, 2021
As most Americans have learned by now, in their rush to do something politically correct,…
Samuel AshwoodJune 21, 2021
Original in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. First some context. The South did…
Rod O'BarrJune 11, 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
It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…
Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
Continued from Part 2. “He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a…
Earl StarbuckMay 5, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the political left into an apoplectic rage two weeks ago when…
Brion McClanahanApril 29, 2021
Continued from Part I. “He was a superb specimen of manly grace and elegance…There was…
Earl StarbuckApril 28, 2021
We have been told that the first shot fired in the "Civil War” was fired…
Valerie ProtopapasApril 12, 2021
Take up the White Man’s burden – Ye dare not stoop to less –Nor call…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 9, 2021
On the Ingraham Angle recently, guest, Craig Shirley offered an opinion that should cheer the…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 7, 2021
A review of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of…
Gene Kizer, Jr.April 6, 2021
Published in 2016, the book Our Man in Charleston tells the story of Robert Bunch…
Karen StokesMarch 25, 2021
Ty Seidule's mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters:…
Philip LeighMarch 22, 2021
It is time to consider the crimes committed against Southern prisoners of war by their…
Valerie ProtopapasMarch 15, 2021
In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the…
Karen StokesMarch 2, 2021
Two terms that are tossed about with great liberality today are “racist” and “white supremacist.” …
Rev. Larry BeaneMarch 1, 2021
“The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes. 2020. I have written…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 26, 2021
The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack…
Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2021
The Washington establishment, led by a senile 78-year-old man who can barely speak in complete…
Thomas DiLorenzoFebruary 9, 2021
Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated…
Philip LeighJanuary 19, 2021
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1851 phantasmagorical image of slave life in the South has long been…
John MarquardtJanuary 13, 2021
Early in the civil war President Lincoln had Federal Troops occupy the State of Maryland. …
Paul CallahanJanuary 8, 2021
Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in…
John DevannyDecember 18, 2020
Lexington, Virginia January 2002 Driving up, then down the mountain hairpins into Lexington,By daylight, moonlight,…
Thomas HubertDecember 17, 2020
The red and the blue—states that is-- are as different as the colorless black and…
Paul H. YarbroughDecember 14, 2020
A review of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values…
Zachary GarrisDecember 8, 2020
The dramatic events leading up to the secession of the Southern States, the tragedy of…
John MarquardtDecember 7, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zksz7mOggqI&feature=youtu.be The Gettysburg Address is perhaps the most iconic speech in American history. Students are…
Brion McClanahanDecember 3, 2020
"May 29, 1856 "Abraham Lincoln, of Sangamon, came upon the platform amid deafening applause. He…
Vito MussomeliDecember 2, 2020
A review of General Edmund Kirby Smith C.S.A. (LSU Press, 1992 (1954) by Joseph H.…
Wes FranklinDecember 1, 2020
The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. New Edition for the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 24, 2020
The following address was delivered as part of a symposium at the 150th anniversary of…
James Everett KiblerNovember 19, 2020
A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993)…
Neil KumarNovember 17, 2020
While watching a seventy-minute interview with Professor Adam Domby about his book, The False Cause, I was surprised…
Philip LeighNovember 10, 2020
In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met…
Karen StokesNovember 5, 2020
“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the…
Valerie ProtopapasNovember 2, 2020
The United States acquired a vast area of the Southwest with the Treaty of Guadalupe…
Steve LeeOctober 22, 2020
What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of…
Valerie ProtopapasOctober 14, 2020
Recently an acquaintance of mine remarked that the Confederate statue in her hometown should be…
Earl StarbuckSeptember 18, 2020
Reading an article in the latest Hillsdale College newsletter Imprimis I was shocked by the…
Carole Hornsby HaynesSeptember 17, 2020
A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they…
Philip LeighSeptember 16, 2020
The tiny hamlet of Lake Hill in New York State’s Catskill Mountains was my mother’s…
John MarquardtSeptember 14, 2020
A recent article in Hillsdale College’s newsletter “Imprimis” compared Lebron James and Colin Kaepernick to…
Wes FranklinSeptember 4, 2020
Eight-tenths of a mile down a dead-end Arkansas gravel road, at that dead end, past…
Travis ArchieAugust 28, 2020
Edmund Ruffin, the consummate Fire-Eater, was far greater than the sum of his parts; as…
Neil KumarAugust 26, 2020
A review of Cleburne: A Graphic Novel (Rampart Press, 2008) by Justin S. Murphy and…
Clyde WilsonAugust 25, 2020
“Madam, don't bring your sons up to detest the United States Government. Recollect that we…
Gerald LefurgyAugust 17, 2020
During the War of Northern Aggression not every Southerner was on board for the Cause.…
Paul H. YarbroughAugust 14, 2020
A Review of Matt: Warriors & Wagon Trains During the Civil War (Amazon, 2019) by…
Samuel W. MitchamAugust 11, 2020
I don’t have time to detail everything the piece in question gets wrong, because it's…
Aaron GleasonJuly 28, 2020
From the 1870s to the late 1950s, there was an unofficial truce between the North…
Samuel W. MitchamJuly 22, 2020
While Fake News may be a new term, the concept has a long history. We…
James (Jim) PedersonJuly 14, 2020
“The problem with Lincoln is the problem with America,” said my friend Clyde Wilson when…
Thomas DiLorenzoJune 29, 2020
Tucker Carlson, a man who had revealed himself as a reliable reporter/journalist over the years,…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 24, 2020
Today, as it was a hundred and sixty years ago, America stands on the edge…
John MarquardtJune 23, 2020
“Southerners who still value their heritage but don’t know what to do about it in…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2020
People remember Missouri as a Union rather than a Confederate state. Even those who are…
Jason WelchMay 20, 2020
Presbyterianism has a rich legacy in American history. The Presbyterian church was founded in Scotland…
Zachary GarrisMay 12, 2020
Over a century and a half has passed since Confederate States General Robert E. Lee…
James Ronald KennedyApril 27, 2020
An outlook is bleak when nothing worse can be said than the truth. To this…
Gerald LefurgyApril 15, 2020
A review of Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian (Regnery History, 2012) by…
Joe WolvertonApril 14, 2020
Literature, be it works of fact or fiction, might well be described as a window…
John MarquardtApril 8, 2020
The first thing I learned about Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest was that he had twenty-nine…
Neil KumarMarch 25, 2020
Estimates of the number of South Vietnamese civilian casualties during the U.S. war in Vietnam…
Norman BlackMarch 20, 2020
Just as the Earth revolves on its axis each day and travels around the Sun…
John MarquardtMarch 13, 2020
A review of The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil…
John C. WhatleyMarch 10, 2020
Bernie Sanders wants to bring back slavery. This raises the question: can he have the…
Paul H. YarbroughMarch 6, 2020
Today there is a frenzied effort to tear down memorials to the Confederate dead. If…
Shane AndersonFebruary 26, 2020
It was Thursday, Christmas day of 1862, and the guns at Fredericksburg had fallen silent…
John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2020
A review of It Wasn't About Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJanuary 28, 2020
8. The War for Southern Independence (continued): Fantasy and Fraud Scorcese’s Gangs of New York…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2020
Lieutenant-General Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson was the greatest martyr of our Cause, the first icon…
Neil KumarJanuary 22, 2020
A review of Robert E. Lee at War: Hope Arises from Despair (Legion of Honor…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 21, 2020
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2020
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 9, 2020
Bevin Alexander’s “How Great Generals Win” was an intellectual watershed in my life. By applying…
Aaron GleasonDecember 6, 2019
The role of religion, specifically evangelical protestant religion in the North, is frequently emphasized by…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 22, 2019
Confederate statue critics increasingly argue that the monuments should be torn down because they honor…
Philip LeighNovember 13, 2019
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the “Whose Heritage?” report on the…
Ernest BlevinsNovember 7, 2019
A Review of The Everlasting Circle: Letters of the Haskell Family of Abbeville, South Carolina,…
Clyde WilsonNovember 5, 2019
In August of 1862, two years before his infamous ‘March to the Sea’, General William…
Vann BosemanOctober 31, 2019
A review of The Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic States (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,…
Vito MussomeliOctober 29, 2019
Just before Christmas of 1860, the chain of events that was to soon to lead…
John MarquardtOctober 23, 2019
Charles Francis Adams was the grandson and son of former-Presidents John and John Quincy Adams.…
Gerald LefurgyOctober 18, 2019
Where did the belief in the "black Confederate soldier" originate? Did it begin in 1977,…
Shane AndersonOctober 9, 2019
Every now and then an acquaintance who reads what I write will ask me: “Boyd,…
Boyd CatheyOctober 4, 2019
A review of Faith and Fury: The Rise of Catholicism During the Civil War (Ewtn…
Jerry SalyerOctober 1, 2019
A review of To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas (Pelican, 1999) by…
David WadeSeptember 10, 2019
Old slave and planter graves a flight apart For thrushes eating seeds of grass and…
David MiddletonSeptember 4, 2019
Lack of attachment to culture, heritage, and tradition is the death of a nation. As…
Nicole WilliamsAugust 28, 2019
Louisiana is a state accustomed to incredibly incompetent and corrupt public officials, especially in the…
Samuel W. MitchamAugust 26, 2019
Sooner or later any student of the War for Southern Independence will run across discussion…
Shane AndersonJuly 22, 2019
On February 4, 2002, a current member of the United States Supreme Court gave the…
Rev. Larry BeaneJuly 19, 2019
I had some correspondence with an editor of the Post and Courier this week when…
Gene Kizer, Jr.July 18, 2019
I am always annoyed when a conservative political leader attacks Southern heritage. I don’t know…
Samuel W. MitchamJuly 15, 2019
Battle of Secessionville Commemoration Address by Gene Kizer, Jr. on the battle site at Fort…
Gene Kizer, Jr.June 24, 2019
Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of the nation's greatest Presidents. He is the…
Michael SchearerJune 6, 2019
Catholic and non-Catholic Southerners alike have reason to mourn the loss of Father James Schall,…
Jerry SalyerMay 30, 2019
It’s telling indeed that while everyone, irrespectively of political partisanship, can’t refer to “racism” enough,…
Jack KerwickMay 29, 2019
A Review of Doniphan’s Expedition, Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico .…
Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2019
A review of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (Oxford,…
W. Kirk WoodApril 30, 2019
Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirrs…
Allen TateApril 29, 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
Stretching from the Potomac River across the southeastern quarter of the United States in a…
Richard M. WeaverApril 22, 2019
A review of Yankee Empire: Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home (Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by…
Brett MoffattApril 9, 2019
Compatriots, how do y'all seek to maintain alive the Confederate heritage within your family &…
Alphonse-Louis VinhApril 4, 2019
“Fatti Maschii Parole Femine”1 In July of 1861, Union troops aboard the Chesapeake Bay steamer…
J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2019
The Hall of Fame recently dedicated at New York University was conceived from the Ruhmes…
Fred H. CoxMarch 27, 2019
The sketch is necessarily imperfect, from the want of official records. Most of these were…
William J. HardeeMarch 18, 2019
“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Among Catholic students of political thought, few…
Jerry SalyerFebruary 20, 2019
In this age of political correctness it may surprise people that there were three TV…
Jeff WolvertonFebruary 15, 2019
Even among the most Grant-partial historians there’s no denying that Ulysses Grant and his wife…
Philip LeighFebruary 8, 2019
Suffering from a nasty bacterial infection, the insomnia induced by a lamp kept lit in…
Jerry SalyerJanuary 30, 2019
A review of A Thousand Points of Truth: The History and Humanity of Col. John…
Paul GottfriedJanuary 22, 2019
The South is and always been conservative. But with the constant hammer of political correctness…
Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 18, 2019
On the stump in New Boston, New Hampshire in early January 1852, Franklin Pierce gave…
Michael J. ConnollyJanuary 17, 2019
A review of Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861 (University…
John DevannyJanuary 15, 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
William Plumer Jacobs (1842-1917), a native of Yorkville, South Carolina, was a Presbyterian minister and…
Karen StokesDecember 20, 2018
A review of Slavery, Secession, & Civil War: Views from the United Kingdom and Europe,…
Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 27, 2018
As the brilliant American military victory in the Persian Gulf approaches its second anniversary, the…
Jeffrey AddicottNovember 26, 2018
From the front porch, Jakob Emig could look across fields where his winter wheat greened…
James Everett KiblerNovember 19, 2018
A review of “An Arch Rebel Like Myself;” Dan Showalter and the Civil War in…
Daniel PetersNovember 6, 2018
Constitutional Violation: Amendment One. Freedom of Speech Denied. Vallandigham Imprisoned in Ohio. “From the beginning to…
John M. TaylorOctober 25, 2018
In the past few weeks two major interrelated events took place in these once United…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyOctober 18, 2018
“History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Attributed to Mark Twain Americans at…
John DevannyOctober 17, 2018
In some ways, historians are like anyone else: they hate to make mistakes. But if…
Samuel W. MitchamOctober 4, 2018
Constitutional Violation: Amendment One: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or…
John M. TaylorSeptember 12, 2018
A review of My Own Darling Wife: Letters from a Confederate Volunteer by Andrew P.…
John C. WhatleySeptember 11, 2018
A Review of Union At All Costs: From Confederation to Consolidation by John M. Taylor…
Samuel W. MitchamAugust 28, 2018
Most mainstream historians point to the “Cornerstone” speech by Alexander Stephens as the clearest piece…
Michael MartinAugust 27, 2018
There is a 1909 “Lincoln penny” attached to the probe arm of Curiosity, a unit…
Malcolm McNeillAugust 24, 2018
In a PBS interview seven years ago historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust identified slavery…
Philip LeighAugust 9, 2018
Whether it's the Civil War, War Between the States, the War for Southern Independence or…
Lewis LibermanAugust 1, 2018
A review of Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North by…
H. A. Scott TraskJuly 31, 2018
This essay is Chapter 13 in Mr. Taylor's Union At All Costs: From Confederation to…
John M. TaylorJuly 30, 2018
The War Between the States is called by many names, the most genteel being “The…
John DevannyJuly 27, 2018
A review of Maximilian and Carlota: Europe’s Last Empire in Mexico by Mary Margaret McAllen…
Terry HulseyJuly 24, 2018
Last November, when President Bush issued an executive order establishing a system of military commissions…
Ludwell H. JohnsonJuly 19, 2018
A review of Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War by…
Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJuly 17, 2018
There are many examples of heroism that illustrate spiritedness in America’s history. Indeed, the American…
Benjamin AlexanderJuly 16, 2018
"Lincoln, under no circumstances, would I vote for ... So, I say, stand by the…
Vito MussomeliJuly 12, 2018
A review of America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, by David Goldfield…
Stephen M. KlugewiczJuly 10, 2018
The bloody conflict of 1861 to 1865 is often called the Civil War, but most…
Karen StokesJuly 4, 2018
A review of The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W. Craig…
John C. WhatleyJuly 3, 2018
One of the foremost scholars of the Southern Cause lives in New Market, Virginia. He…
Louis T. MarchJune 27, 2018
Were Robert E. Lee and the Confederates “traitors” who violated their oaths to the Constitution…
Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2018
Fort Sumter was the beginning not only of a bloody conflict, but it forged a…
Norman E. RourkeJune 15, 2018
It was Wednesday, April 19, 1865. The Confederate States of America lay prostrate under the…
David E. JohnsonJune 14, 2018
History is the propaganda of the victorious. - Voltaire According to an explanation of “The…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 7, 2018
Originally published at amazon.com, 30 September 2009. A Review of War Crimes Against Southern Civilians by…
Stephen HendrickJune 5, 2018
A review of Division and Reunion: America, 1848-1877, by Ludwell H. Johnson, New York: John…
Clyde WilsonMay 29, 2018
“It was my first introduction to damn Yankees,” my oldest sister remarked of her first…
Dissident MamaMay 16, 2018
No one interested in American history can escape Abraham Lincoln. Over the years the outpouring…
Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 9, 2018
Oh! Save the souls of the Lords of Gray. Donned their swords and scabbards. Rode…
Paul H. YarbroughApril 26, 2018
When the Pacific phase of World War Two began in December of 1941, Great Britain’s…
John MarquardtApril 23, 2018
Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, is known as the place where the “Civil War”…
Karen StokesApril 16, 2018
A review of The Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy (Vintage,…
Al BensonApril 10, 2018
Most modern historians reject any suggestion that the South fought the Civil War over states’…
Philip LeighMarch 22, 2018
Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen: I am speaking but the plain truth when I…
Irvin S. CobbMarch 19, 2018
The complex issues which have and continue to divide America’s North and South have a…
John MarquardtMarch 16, 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
A review of Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States (Charleston…
Al BensonFebruary 27, 2018
Judas failed in his purpose because he failed to recognize the coming of Christ…
Paul H. YarbroughFebruary 21, 2018
Propaganda. It’s a well-known word defined as “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature,…
Ryan WaltersFebruary 16, 2018
When you hear or read about the burning of Columbia, General Sherman’s principal target in…
Karen StokesFebruary 15, 2018
A review of Shearer Davis Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the…
Jonathan WhiteJanuary 30, 2018
Modern American society seems to have little understanding of what really happened before, during and…
Lewis LibermanJanuary 26, 2018
More than 150 years after the Civil War, the nation is engulfed in controversy over…
Jacob G. HornbergerJanuary 24, 2018
Advance the flag of Dixie For Dixie’s land we take our stand To live or…
John MarquardtJanuary 10, 2018
At the Battle of Nashville, on 16 December 1864, the Tennessean’s brigade, fought valiantly, but…
Jeff WolvertonDecember 14, 2017
Upon the Painting by Paul Davis of the Statue of a Young Confederate Soldier —on…
David MiddletonDecember 8, 2017
With the election of Rutherford B. Hayes by a one vote margin in the Electoral…
Cliff PageDecember 6, 2017
A review of Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home To Fight As Confederate…
Bill PotterDecember 5, 2017
There is an old saying in the theater that when one is acting the part…
John MarquardtDecember 4, 2017
After the rousing success of Kansas University’s redesigned football uniforms in honor of Jennison’s Jay-hawkers…
Lewis LibermanDecember 1, 2017
A review of Pickett’s Charge – The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess (UNC Press,…
John C. WhatleyNovember 28, 2017
The recent apoplexy over White House Chief-of-Staff John Kelly’s comments about Robert E. Lee and…
Michael ArmstrongNovember 27, 2017
You would think that David Duke had somehow been elected president. Or, maybe in this…
Boyd CatheyNovember 15, 2017
We hear endless accounts today concerning the dire effects of global climate change, as well…
John MarquardtNovember 10, 2017
The Jewish people have endured much throughout their long history, yet have always continued to…
Jonathan HarrisNovember 9, 2017
At the time of his death, was Robert E. Lee a man without a country?…
William FreehoffNovember 2, 2017
A Review of States Rights Gist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War, by…
Barry KayOctober 17, 2017
Russian-American relations over the past two and a half centuries, like the weather in Alaska,…
John MarquardtOctober 16, 2017
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