Blog Ulysses S. Grant’s Failed Presidency Below is a footnote-free version of the Preface from my U. S. Grant's Failed Presidency…Philip LeighJune 20, 2022
Blog Randolph Shotwell in War and Prison We live in a regime with an industrial output of lies about Southern history, so…Clyde WilsonJune 17, 2022
Blog Remembering Gods and Generals Lest we forget, it has been nineteen years since the film “Gods and Generals” was…Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2022
Blog The Last Americans to Believe in the Voluntary Union of the States “If there is to be a separation , then God bless them both, & keep…Thomas DiLorenzoJune 7, 2022
Blog The Confederate Constitution From the 2003 Abbeville Institute Summer School I come from a somewhat different mold and…Marshall DeRosaJune 6, 2022
Blog Recommended Books about the South and Its History A friend recently asked me for a list of good books about the South and…Boyd CatheyMay 31, 2022
Blog Armistead Burt: A Friend to Jefferson Davis On a recent visit to Abbeville, South Carolina I visited the Burt-Stark House, one of…Thomas HubertMay 20, 2022
Blog Acknowledging the True Cost of the War Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873 – 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor…Valerie ProtopapasMay 19, 2022
BlogReview Posts Blacks in Gray A Review of Blacks in Gray Uniforms (Arcadia, 2018) by Phillip Thomas Tucker South Carolina…Karen StokesMay 18, 2022
Blog In the Saddle with Stonewall The best of the many Confederate memoirs, in my opinion, are those of General Richard…Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2022
Blog Honorable and Courageous Patriots Delivered at the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park for the Confederate Memorial Day remembrance held…Martin O'TooleMay 12, 2022
Blog Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural It has been over a century and a half since Lincoln’s assassination did much to…Shaan ShandhuMay 9, 2022
Blog President Grant is Overrated A recent article in the politically conservative National Review about Ulysses Grant’s presidency by historian…Philip LeighMay 3, 2022
Blog God’s General Neither side in the War for Southern Independence produced a finer or more morally upright…Samuel W. MitchamApril 28, 2022
Blog Did the Confederacy Oppose the Rule of Law? Today is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama. Most Americans believe the War and Southern history…Brion McClanahanApril 25, 2022
Blog Common Cause and Common Fate Mr. President--I fully concur with the gentleman from Montgomery, in the propriety of immediately passing…Lewis M. StoneApril 20, 2022
Blog The War of Secession A line from Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” In the case of the great…John MarquardtApril 12, 2022
Blog Emancipation Part 4 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2022
Blog The 1862 Louisiana Native Guard In April 1861, a public meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana to discuss Governor…Shane AndersonMarch 28, 2022
Blog Lincoln, Putin, and Yankee Hyopcrisy At the writing of this article, the ongoing struggle between Ukraine and Russia has most…Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyMarch 23, 2022
Blog A War to Free the Slaves? Part 3 in Clyde Wilson's series "African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective." Read Part 1 and…Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2022
Blog Stonewall Jackson’s Scabbard Speech Originally published in the Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 16. 1888 While the Virginia Convention…William A. ObenchainMarch 4, 2022
Blog Secession Declarations Do Not Prove the War was over Slavery ACADEMIA'S ABSOLUTE PROOF that the War Between the States was fought over slavery is based…Gene Kizer, Jr.February 25, 2022
Blog South Carolina in 1865 There is nothing new under the sun, but there are things which have lain undiscovered,…Karen StokesFebruary 23, 2022
Blog Beyond the Hunley As far back as the days of ancient Greece and Rome, people have dreamed of…John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2022
Blog Who Was Francis Lieber? The opening of this essay is from my segment of the documentary Searching for Lincoln…Valerie ProtopapasFebruary 8, 2022
BlogReview Posts The Yankee’s Lee This essay was originally published in the First Quarter 1992 issue of Southern Partisan. A…David BovenizerJanuary 19, 2022
Blog Slavery and Abolitionism as Viewed by a Georgia Slave After 200 years of digesting Enlightenment ideals of natural rights, and reciting a pledge that…Rod O'BarrJanuary 12, 2022
Blog How the British Viewed the War But most significant of all was the attitude assumed by the Federal Government in dealing…William Edward Hartpole LeckyJanuary 11, 2022
Blog When does the wisdom of crowds transition to the madness of crowds? Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal along with Tesla’s Elon Musk and an early Facebook…Philip LeighJanuary 6, 2022
Blog Abraham Lincoln’s Pyrrhic Victory The true legacy of Lincoln usually gets drowned in the perennial gush about a president…Ilana MercerJanuary 5, 2022
Blog The Coerced Soldiers of the USCT “That the negroes did not revolt is one of the incomprehensible features of our Civil…Rod O'BarrJanuary 4, 2022
Blog Adding Monuments In a speech to the Georgia legislature in 1866, Former Vice President of the Confederacy…Donald LivingstonDecember 27, 2021
Blog Secession Isn’t Treason A few more words, and we shall be in a condition to answer the question…Raphael SemmesDecember 1, 2021
BlogReview Posts The Right Side of History A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life (Random House, 2021) by Allen Guelzo “How…Casey ChalkNovember 23, 2021
Blog Missouri’s Road to Secession Missouri celebrated her 160th anniversary of her secession from the Union on October 28. It…Wes FranklinNovember 4, 2021
Review Posts When in the Course of Human Events A review of When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern…Terry HulseyOctober 19, 2021
Blog Our Marxist Revolution Thomas Carlyle said that it takes men of worth to recognize worth in men (1).…H.V. Traywick, Jr.October 4, 2021
Blog Lincoln’s Total War Who has not heard of Wounded Knee? Most know at least the general facts surrounding…Valerie ProtopapasSeptember 28, 2021
Blog “Shrines The Heart Hath Builded” My wife, Elizabeth, comes from a village called Greenwich in northern New York state. Among…Barton CockeySeptember 27, 2021
Blog Washington vs. Lee L. Q. C. LAMAR TO THE VICKSBURG COMMITTEE OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 5, 1870. To Col.…Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus LamarSeptember 1, 2021
Blog The Last Address The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses…Michael R. BradleyAugust 27, 2021
Blog So, it was a Civil War after all… “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of…Valerie ProtopapasAugust 19, 2021
Blog You Lost. Get Over It The opponents of Southern heritage often repeat the trope: “You lost, get over it.” One…Rev. Larry BeaneAugust 17, 2021
Blog The Truth About Tariffs and the War During the past thirty years most historians claim that slavery was the dominant cause of…Philip LeighAugust 13, 2021
Blog Historical Context Explains Secession That Southern secession was ultimately about independence with or without slavery is easily determined by…Rod O'BarrAugust 12, 2021
Blog The South’s Monument Man The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament (Exodus 20:2-17) are the creed of both Christians…John MarquardtAugust 9, 2021
Blog The Amendment That Never Was The date of the latest federal holiday, June 19th, was touted as the one marking…John MarquardtJuly 14, 2021
Blog The True Cause of the War Between the States I have been studying the War Between the States for 53 years. In all those…Timothy A. DuskinJuly 8, 2021
Blog John Pelham and the “Myth of the Lost Cause” Some twenty years ago I had planned to write a full-length study of John Pelham—known…Thomas HubertJuly 7, 2021
Blog Aristotle vs. Hobbes–The Cause of the Great War The "ultimate cause" of the War of Secession was two mutually exclusive understanding of government.…Valerie ProtopapasJuly 6, 2021
Review Posts Lincoln and the Border States A review of Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (University Press of Kansas,…Terry HulseyJune 29, 2021
Blog The Latin South “The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised,”…Casey ChalkJune 23, 2021
Blog The Righteous Cause Myth Strikes Again As most Americans have learned by now, in their rush to do something politically correct,…Samuel AshwoodJune 21, 2021
Blog Secession Was Not About Slavery Original in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. First some context. The South did…Rod O'BarrJune 11, 2021
Blog Is Secession Treason? And they, sweet soul, that most impute a crimeAre pronest to it, and impute themselves…Tennyson,…H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 3, 2021
Blog On “Good Uses” for the Confederate Flag One of my colleagues in the ministry of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS)…Rev. Larry BeaneJune 2, 2021
Blog Bad History Masquerading as an Appeal to Peace and Piety: A Response to Allen Guelzo’s “Why We Must Forget the Lost Cause” It is a testimony to the prevalence of anti-Southern sentiment that The Gospel Coalition (TGC),…Tom HerveyMay 24, 2021
Blog Robert E. Lee: The Soldier Continued from Part 2. “He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a…Earl StarbuckMay 5, 2021
Blog Twitter Historians Distort History, Again. Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the political left into an apoplectic rage two weeks ago when…Brion McClanahanApril 29, 2021
Blog Robert E. Lee: The Father Continued from Part I. “He was a superb specimen of manly grace and elegance…There was…Earl StarbuckApril 28, 2021
Blog The “First Shot” Revisited We have been told that the first shot fired in the "Civil War” was fired…Valerie ProtopapasApril 12, 2021
Blog The Yankees Take Up the White Man’s Burden Take up the White Man’s burden – Ye dare not stoop to less –Nor call…H.V. Traywick, Jr.April 9, 2021
Blog Only A House Divided Within Itself Will Stand On the Ingraham Angle recently, guest, Craig Shirley offered an opinion that should cheer the…Paul H. YarbroughApril 7, 2021
Review Posts Robert E. Lee and Me A review of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of…Gene Kizer, Jr.April 6, 2021
Blog Our Other Man in Charleston Published in 2016, the book Our Man in Charleston tells the story of Robert Bunch…Karen StokesMarch 25, 2021
Blog Robert E. Lee and (Woke General) Please Like Me Ty Seidule's mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters:…Philip LeighMarch 22, 2021
Blog Crimes Against Humanity It is time to consider the crimes committed against Southern prisoners of war by their…Valerie ProtopapasMarch 15, 2021
Blog Total War in Georgia In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the…Karen StokesMarch 2, 2021
Blog Racism and Reputation Two terms that are tossed about with great liberality today are “racist” and “white supremacist.” …Rev. Larry BeaneMarch 1, 2021
Blog Don’t Watch This Film “The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes. 2020. I have written…Clyde WilsonFebruary 26, 2021
Blog A Night to Remember The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack…Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2021
Blog The Last “Insurrection” According to the Political Establishment The Washington establishment, led by a senile 78-year-old man who can barely speak in complete…Thomas DiLorenzoFebruary 9, 2021
Blog A Good Reason to Honor Robert E. Lee Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated…Philip LeighJanuary 19, 2021
Blog The Tarnished Tarheel Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1851 phantasmagorical image of slave life in the South has long been…John MarquardtJanuary 13, 2021
Blog A (Maryland) Southern Hero Early in the civil war President Lincoln had Federal Troops occupy the State of Maryland. …Paul CallahanJanuary 8, 2021
Blog The Blundering Generations and the Crisis of Legitimacy Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in…John DevannyDecember 18, 2020
Blog Virginia and Alabama Lexington, Virginia January 2002 Driving up, then down the mountain hairpins into Lexington,By daylight, moonlight,…Thomas HubertDecember 17, 2020
Blog A Red and Blue Divorce? The red and the blue—states that is-- are as different as the colorless black and…Paul H. YarbroughDecember 14, 2020
Review Posts James Henley Thornwell and the Metaphysical Confederacy A review of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values…Zachary GarrisDecember 8, 2020
Blog The War in the Pacific The dramatic events leading up to the secession of the Southern States, the tragedy of…John MarquardtDecember 7, 2020
Blog The Gettysburg Fairy Tale 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
Blog Mr. Lincoln’s “Lost Speech” "May 29, 1856 "Abraham Lincoln, of Sangamon, came upon the platform amid deafening applause. He…Vito MussomeliDecember 2, 2020
Review Posts Edmund Kirby Smith A review of General Edmund Kirby Smith C.S.A. (LSU Press, 1992 (1954) by Joseph H.…Wes FranklinDecember 1, 2020
Blog The South Was Right! (Again) The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. New Edition for the…Clyde WilsonNovember 24, 2020
Blog The Great Lie and the Real Controversy The following address was delivered as part of a symposium at the 150th anniversary of…James Everett KiblerNovember 19, 2020
Review Posts John Brown’s Body A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993)…Neil KumarNovember 17, 2020
Blog The False Cause Narrative While watching a seventy-minute interview with Professor Adam Domby about his book, The False Cause, I was surprised…Philip LeighNovember 10, 2020
Blog A [r]epublican in Exile In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met…Karen StokesNovember 5, 2020
Blog It Began With A Lie “Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the…Valerie ProtopapasNovember 2, 2020
Blog How Arizona Seceded From the Union The United States acquired a vast area of the Southwest with the Treaty of Guadalupe…Steve LeeOctober 22, 2020
Blog A Simple Explanation What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of…Valerie ProtopapasOctober 14, 2020
Blog The Real Reason for Confederate Monuments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08VtxFZlXKc&feature=youtu.bePhilip LeighSeptember 29, 2020
Blog Was Secession Treason? Recently an acquaintance of mine remarked that the Confederate statue in her hometown should be…Earl StarbuckSeptember 18, 2020
Blog Marxists, Conservatives, and Neocons Reading an article in the latest Hillsdale College newsletter Imprimis I was shocked by the…Carole Hornsby HaynesSeptember 17, 2020
Blog They Were Not Traitors A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they…Philip LeighSeptember 16, 2020
Blog As Luck Would Have It The tiny hamlet of Lake Hill in New York State’s Catskill Mountains was my mother’s…John MarquardtSeptember 14, 2020
Blog Brain Dead Neocons A recent article in Hillsdale College’s newsletter “Imprimis” compared Lebron James and Colin Kaepernick to…Wes FranklinSeptember 4, 2020
Blog A Monument Worthy of a Hero Eight-tenths of a mile down a dead-end Arkansas gravel road, at that dead end, past…Travis ArchieAugust 28, 2020
Blog The Fire Eater Edmund Ruffin, the consummate Fire-Eater, was far greater than the sum of his parts; as…Neil KumarAugust 26, 2020
Review Posts New Confederate Territory A review of Cleburne: A Graphic Novel (Rampart Press, 2008) by Justin S. Murphy and…Clyde WilsonAugust 25, 2020
Blog “False Story” Historiography “Madam, don't bring your sons up to detest the United States Government. Recollect that we…Gerald LefurgyAugust 17, 2020
Blog Jeff, Judas, and Mr. James During the War of Northern Aggression not every Southerner was on board for the Cause.…Paul H. YarbroughAugust 14, 2020
Blog Missouri’s War A Review of Matt: Warriors & Wagon Trains During the Civil War (Amazon, 2019) by…Samuel W. MitchamAugust 11, 2020
Blog The Atlantic Gets It Wrong, Again I don’t have time to detail everything the piece in question gets wrong, because it's…Aaron GleasonJuly 28, 2020
Blog Why the Civil War Wasn’t About Slavery From the 1870s to the late 1950s, there was an unofficial truce between the North…Samuel W. MitchamJuly 22, 2020
Blog The Real Legends and Lies of the “Civil War” I caught a snatch of news the other day that, even with all that is…Clyde WilsonJuly 16, 2020
Blog 19th Century Fake News While Fake News may be a new term, the concept has a long history. We…James (Jim) PedersonJuly 14, 2020
Blog The Problem With Lincoln “The problem with Lincoln is the problem with America,” said my friend Clyde Wilson when…Thomas DiLorenzoJune 29, 2020
Blog Tucker and the Confederacy Tucker Carlson, a man who had revealed himself as a reliable reporter/journalist over the years,…Paul H. YarbroughJune 24, 2020
Blog A Voice of Reason Today, as it was a hundred and sixty years ago, America stands on the edge…John MarquardtJune 23, 2020
Blog An Interview with Clyde Wilson, Part III “Southerners who still value their heritage but don’t know what to do about it in…Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2020
Blog Remember Missouri People remember Missouri as a Union rather than a Confederate state. Even those who are…Jason WelchMay 20, 2020
Blog How Secession and War Divided American Presbyterianism Presbyterianism has a rich legacy in American history. The Presbyterian church was founded in Scotland…Zachary GarrisMay 12, 2020
Blog No Comparison Between Grant and Lee Over a century and a half has passed since Confederate States General Robert E. Lee…James Ronald KennedyApril 27, 2020
Blog The All American Perspective An outlook is bleak when nothing worse can be said than the truth. To this…Gerald LefurgyApril 15, 2020
Review Posts Grant a Better General Than Lee? No. A review of Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian (Regnery History, 2012) by…Joe WolvertonApril 14, 2020
Blog The South in Arms…What Might Have Been Literature, be it works of fact or fiction, might well be described as a window…John MarquardtApril 8, 2020
Blog The Duty of the Hour The first thing I learned about Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest was that he had twenty-nine…Neil KumarMarch 25, 2020
Blog Violence Breeds Violence Estimates of the number of South Vietnamese civilian casualties during the U.S. war in Vietnam…Norman BlackMarch 20, 2020
Blog The Economy, Stupid Just as the Earth revolves on its axis each day and travels around the Sun…John MarquardtMarch 13, 2020
Review Posts The Myth of the Lost Cause A review of The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil…John C. WhatleyMarch 10, 2020
Blog Bernie Sanders and Simon Legree: Real and Imaginary Bernie Sanders wants to bring back slavery. This raises the question: can he have the…Paul H. YarbroughMarch 6, 2020
Blog To Guard the Precious Dust of the Martyred Dead Today there is a frenzied effort to tear down memorials to the Confederate dead. If…Shane AndersonFebruary 26, 2020
Blog Confederate Christmas It was Thursday, Christmas day of 1862, and the guns at Fredericksburg had fallen silent…John MarquardtFebruary 21, 2020
Review Posts The Craggy Hill of Slavery A review of It Wasn't About Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War…Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJanuary 28, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part VI 8. The War for Southern Independence (continued): Fantasy and Fraud Scorcese’s Gangs of New York…Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2020
Blog Charge! and Remember Jackson Lieutenant-General Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson was the greatest martyr of our Cause, the first icon…Neil KumarJanuary 22, 2020
Review Posts Two Lees A review of Robert E. Lee at War: Hope Arises from Despair (Legion of Honor…Brion McClanahanJanuary 21, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part V Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2020
Blog A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part IV Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…Clyde WilsonJanuary 9, 2020
Blog Lee’s Brilliance and Sherman’s Folly Bevin Alexander’s “How Great Generals Win” was an intellectual watershed in my life. By applying…Aaron GleasonDecember 6, 2019
Blog What Religious Statistics Can Tell Us About The War Between the States The role of religion, specifically evangelical protestant religion in the North, is frequently emphasized by…James (Jim) PedersonNovember 22, 2019
Blog Confederates Were Not Traitors Confederate statue critics increasingly argue that the monuments should be torn down because they honor…Philip LeighNovember 13, 2019
Blog The Real Reason for “Civil War” Monuments In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the “Whose Heritage?” report on the…Ernest BlevinsNovember 7, 2019
Review Posts The Real Thing A Review of The Everlasting Circle: Letters of the Haskell Family of Abbeville, South Carolina,…Clyde WilsonNovember 5, 2019
Blog How Yankees Fostered Southern Disease In August of 1862, two years before his infamous ‘March to the Sea’, General William…Vann BosemanOctober 31, 2019
Review Posts The Secession Movement in the Middle States A review of The Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic States (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,…Vito MussomeliOctober 29, 2019
Blog Behind Enemy Lines Just before Christmas of 1860, the chain of events that was to soon to lead…John MarquardtOctober 23, 2019
Blog “My Countrymen” Charles Francis Adams was the grandson and son of former-Presidents John and John Quincy Adams.…Gerald LefurgyOctober 18, 2019
Blog What the Newspapers Said: The Black Confederate “Myth” Examined Where did the belief in the "black Confederate soldier" originate? Did it begin in 1977,…Shane AndersonOctober 9, 2019
Blog How the Neocons are Helping Destroy Western Civilization Every now and then an acquaintance who reads what I write will ask me: “Boyd,…Boyd CatheyOctober 4, 2019
Review Posts “Deplorable” 19th-Century American Catholics and the 21st-Century Culture War A review of Faith and Fury: The Rise of Catholicism During the Civil War (Ewtn…Jerry SalyerOctober 1, 2019
Review Posts To Die in Chicago A review of To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas (Pelican, 1999) by…David WadeSeptember 10, 2019
Blog The War Between the Dreams Old slave and planter graves a flight apart For thrushes eating seeds of grass and…David MiddletonSeptember 4, 2019
Blog Rediscovering Heritage Lack of attachment to culture, heritage, and tradition is the death of a nation. As…Nicole WilliamsAugust 28, 2019
Blog Louisiana’s Warrior Governor Louisiana is a state accustomed to incredibly incompetent and corrupt public officials, especially in the…Samuel W. MitchamAugust 26, 2019
Blog Black Southern Support for Secession and War Sooner or later any student of the War for Southern Independence will run across discussion…Shane AndersonJuly 22, 2019
Blog The Neo-Confederate SCOTUS Justice On February 4, 2002, a current member of the United States Supreme Court gave the…Rev. Larry BeaneJuly 19, 2019
Blog Defending the South Against Fake News I had some correspondence with an editor of the Post and Courier this week when…Gene Kizer, Jr.July 18, 2019
Blog A History Lesson for Ted Cruz I am always annoyed when a conservative political leader attacks Southern heritage. I don’t know…Samuel W. MitchamJuly 15, 2019
Blog Secessionville Battle of Secessionville Commemoration Address by Gene Kizer, Jr. on the battle site at Fort…Gene Kizer, Jr.June 24, 2019
Blog Abraham Lincoln Crushes Civil Liberties in Maryland Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of the nation's greatest Presidents. He is the…Michael SchearerJune 6, 2019
Blog Dignity and Peace Catholic and non-Catholic Southerners alike have reason to mourn the loss of Father James Schall,…Jerry SalyerMay 30, 2019
Blog The Inescapable Anti-Americanism of the Left It’s telling indeed that while everyone, irrespectively of political partisanship, can’t refer to “racism” enough,…Jack KerwickMay 29, 2019
Review Posts Adventures in the Southwest A Review of Doniphan’s Expedition, Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico .…Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2019
Review Posts The Real Cause A review of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (Oxford,…W. Kirk WoodApril 30, 2019
Blog Ode to the Confederate Dead Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirrs…Allen TateApril 29, 2019
Blog Sins and Virtues of “Civil War” History History is remembered as a narrative, not facts and figures. If the story is told…Philip LeighApril 26, 2019
Blog A Copperhead Loves the South CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS 22 April 2019 American by birth -- Southern by the grace…John A. EidsmoeApril 25, 2019
Blog The South and the American Union Stretching from the Potomac River across the southeastern quarter of the United States in a…Richard M. WeaverApril 22, 2019
Review Posts Yankee Empire A review of Yankee Empire: Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home (Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by…Brett MoffattApril 9, 2019
Blog Teach Your Children Well Compatriots, how do y'all seek to maintain alive the Confederate heritage within your family &…Alphonse-Louis VinhApril 4, 2019
Blog The French Lady: A Most Agreeable Gentleman “Fatti Maschii Parole Femine”1 In July of 1861, Union troops aboard the Chesapeake Bay steamer…J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2019
Blog Lee, Virginia, and the Union The Hall of Fame recently dedicated at New York University was conceived from the Ruhmes…Fred H. CoxMarch 27, 2019
Blog Patrick Cleburne The sketch is necessarily imperfect, from the want of official records. Most of these were…William J. HardeeMarch 18, 2019
Blog Lord Acton: Confederate Sympathizer “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Among Catholic students of political thought, few…Jerry SalyerFebruary 20, 2019
Blog Pro-Confederate Television In this age of political correctness it may surprise people that there were three TV…Jeff WolvertonFebruary 15, 2019
Blog Did Ulysses Grant Own and Rent Slaves? Even among the most Grant-partial historians there’s no denying that Ulysses Grant and his wife…Philip LeighFebruary 8, 2019
Blog Kentucky’s Confederate Sons Suffering from a nasty bacterial infection, the insomnia induced by a lamp kept lit in…Jerry SalyerJanuary 30, 2019
Blog The South and Germany I hope that no one who reads this paper will suppose that I have any…Lyon G. TylerJanuary 25, 2019
Review Posts A Thousand Points of Truth A review of A Thousand Points of Truth: The History and Humanity of Col. John…Paul GottfriedJanuary 22, 2019
Blog Southern Conservatives The South is and always been conservative. But with the constant hammer of political correctness…Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 18, 2019
Blog Franklin Pierce, Political Protest, & the Dilemmas of Democracy On the stump in New Boston, New Hampshire in early January 1852, Franklin Pierce gave…Michael J. ConnollyJanuary 17, 2019
Review Posts Catholics’ Lost Cause A review of Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820-1861 (University…John DevannyJanuary 15, 2019
Blog The Southern Tradition Many years ago the historian Francis Parkman wrote a passage in one of his narratives…Richard M. WeaverJanuary 14, 2019
Blog The Cost of Southern Cultural Genocide The destruction of Confederate monuments and the slandering of all things Confederate is in vogue…James Ronald KennedyJanuary 9, 2019
Blog We the People of South Carolina…. William Plumer Jacobs (1842-1917), a native of Yorkville, South Carolina, was a Presbyterian minister and…Karen StokesDecember 20, 2018
Review Posts How Europeans Viewed the War A review of Slavery, Secession, & Civil War: Views from the United Kingdom and Europe,…Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 27, 2018
Blog Operation Desert Storm: Lee or Sherman As the brilliant American military victory in the Persian Gulf approaches its second anniversary, the…Jeffrey AddicottNovember 26, 2018
Blog How Jakob Emig Fought the Yankees From the front porch, Jakob Emig could look across fields where his winter wheat greened…James Everett KiblerNovember 19, 2018
Review Posts An Arch Rebel Like Myself A review of “An Arch Rebel Like Myself;” Dan Showalter and the Civil War in…Daniel PetersNovember 6, 2018
Blog An Act of Tyranny Constitutional Violation: Amendment One. Freedom of Speech Denied. Vallandigham Imprisoned in Ohio. “From the beginning to…John M. TaylorOctober 25, 2018
Blog Accuse-Convict-Remove In the past few weeks two major interrelated events took place in these once United…Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyOctober 18, 2018
Blog Justice Kavanaugh and the Triumph of Symbol over Reality “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Attributed to Mark Twain Americans at…John DevannyOctober 17, 2018
Blog Why Was General Earl Van Dorn Murdered? In some ways, historians are like anyone else: they hate to make mistakes. But if…Samuel W. MitchamOctober 4, 2018
Blog When the Yankees Shut Down the First Amendment Constitutional Violation: Amendment One: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or…John M. TaylorSeptember 12, 2018
Review Posts My Own Darling Wife A review of My Own Darling Wife: Letters from a Confederate Volunteer by Andrew P.…John C. WhatleySeptember 11, 2018
Review Posts Union At All Costs A Review of Union At All Costs: From Confederation to Consolidation by John M. Taylor…Samuel W. MitchamAugust 28, 2018
Blog Revisiting the “Cornerstone Speech” Most mainstream historians point to the “Cornerstone” speech by Alexander Stephens as the clearest piece…Michael MartinAugust 27, 2018
Blog Lincoln on Mars There is a 1909 “Lincoln penny” attached to the probe arm of Curiosity, a unit…Malcolm McNeillAugust 24, 2018
Blog Causes of the “Civil War” In a PBS interview seven years ago historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust identified slavery…Philip LeighAugust 9, 2018
Blog Lost Cause Myth or Yankee Propaganda Whether it's the Civil War, War Between the States, the War for Southern Independence or…Lewis LibermanAugust 1, 2018
Review Posts The Saints Are Marching On, and On, and On… A review of Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North by…H. A. Scott TraskJuly 31, 2018
Blog Colonel Baldwin Meets Mr. Lincoln This essay is Chapter 13 in Mr. Taylor's Union At All Costs: From Confederation to…John M. TaylorJuly 30, 2018
Blog The Late Unpleasantness: Memory, Meaning and Understanding The War Between the States is called by many names, the most genteel being “The…John DevannyJuly 27, 2018
Review Posts Confederates in Mexico A review of Maximilian and Carlota: Europe’s Last Empire in Mexico by Mary Margaret McAllen…Terry HulseyJuly 24, 2018
Blog Bushwacking the Bill of Rights Last November, when President Bush issued an executive order establishing a system of military commissions…Ludwell H. JohnsonJuly 19, 2018
Review Posts Wall Street Journal’s Confederate Animus A review of Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War by…Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJuly 17, 2018
Blog Nathan Bedford Forrest and Southern Folkways There are many examples of heroism that illustrate spiritedness in America’s history. Indeed, the American…Benjamin AlexanderJuly 16, 2018
Blog Sam Houston and Texas Secession "Lincoln, under no circumstances, would I vote for ... So, I say, stand by the…Vito MussomeliJuly 12, 2018
Review Posts America Aflame A review of America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, by David Goldfield…Stephen M. KlugewiczJuly 10, 2018
Blog The Spirit of ’61 The bloody conflict of 1861 to 1865 is often called the Civil War, but most…Karen StokesJuly 4, 2018
Review Posts The Confederate Cherokee A review of The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W. Craig…John C. WhatleyJuly 3, 2018
Blog Shrine of the South One of the foremost scholars of the Southern Cause lives in New Market, Virginia. He…Louis T. MarchJune 27, 2018
Blog Was Lee a Traitor? Were Robert E. Lee and the Confederates “traitors” who violated their oaths to the Constitution…Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2018
Blog All the News That’s Fit to Print Fort Sumter was the beginning not only of a bloody conflict, but it forged a…Norman E. RourkeJune 15, 2018
Blog Two Southern Presidents in History It was Wednesday, April 19, 1865. The Confederate States of America lay prostrate under the…David E. JohnsonJune 14, 2018
Blog The Cult of the Lost Cause History is the propaganda of the victorious. - Voltaire According to an explanation of “The…H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 7, 2018
Review Posts War Crimes Against Southern Civilians Originally published at amazon.com, 30 September 2009. A Review of War Crimes Against Southern Civilians by…Stephen HendrickJune 5, 2018
Review Posts Cracks in the Treasury of Virtue A review of Division and Reunion: America, 1848-1877, by Ludwell H. Johnson, New York: John…Clyde WilsonMay 29, 2018
Blog Yankee Sanctification “It was my first introduction to damn Yankees,” my oldest sister remarked of her first…Dissident MamaMay 16, 2018
Blog In Search of the Real Abe Lincoln No one interested in American history can escape Abraham Lincoln. Over the years the outpouring…Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 9, 2018
Blog Save the Souls of the Lords of Gray– in Eleven Stanzas Oh! Save the souls of the Lords of Gray. Donned their swords and scabbards. Rode…Paul H. YarbroughApril 26, 2018
Blog The Pickens Plot When the Pacific phase of World War Two began in December of 1941, Great Britain’s…John MarquardtApril 23, 2018
Blog A Bloodless Victory Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, is known as the place where the “Civil War”…Karen StokesApril 16, 2018
Review Posts The Unknown Confederate West A review of The Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy (Vintage,…Al BensonApril 10, 2018
Blog States’ Rights Most modern historians reject any suggestion that the South fought the Civil War over states’…Philip LeighMarch 22, 2018
Blog The Lost Tribes of the Irish in the South Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen: I am speaking but the plain truth when I…Irvin S. CobbMarch 19, 2018
Blog Parallel Lines Of Division The complex issues which have and continue to divide America’s North and South have a…John MarquardtMarch 16, 2018
Blog The Barbarians at the Gates Since the 1960s, the interpretation of Southern history and the War Between the States put…Gene Kizer, Jr.March 8, 2018
Blog Confederate History of the Maryland Flag It is near impossible to express any admiration of the antebellum South without incurring the…Reverdy JohnsonMarch 5, 2018
Review Posts Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States A review of Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States (Charleston…Al BensonFebruary 27, 2018
Blog Judas and Jeff Judas failed in his purpose because he failed to recognize the coming of Christ…Paul H. YarbroughFebruary 21, 2018
Blog Lies James Loewen Tells Us Propaganda. It’s a well-known word defined as “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature,…Ryan WaltersFebruary 16, 2018
Blog Northern Lies about the Burning of Columbia When you hear or read about the burning of Columbia, General Sherman’s principal target in…Karen StokesFebruary 15, 2018
Review Posts On the Brink of War A review of Shearer Davis Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the…Jonathan WhiteJanuary 30, 2018
Blog Christian Persecution in Missouri Modern American society seems to have little understanding of what really happened before, during and…Lewis LibermanJanuary 26, 2018
Blog The Lies and Hypocrisy of the Civil War More than 150 years after the Civil War, the nation is engulfed in controversy over…Jacob G. HornbergerJanuary 24, 2018
Blog They Took Their Stand in Dixie Advance the flag of Dixie For Dixie’s land we take our stand To live or…John MarquardtJanuary 10, 2018
Blog Thomas Benton Smith, The Boy General At the Battle of Nashville, on 16 December 1864, the Tennessean’s brigade, fought valiantly, but…Jeff WolvertonDecember 14, 2017
Blog Upon the Painting by Paul Davis of the Statue of a Young Confederate Soldier Upon the Painting by Paul Davis of the Statue of a Young Confederate Soldier —on…David MiddletonDecember 8, 2017
Blog Monuments and Reconciliation With the election of Rutherford B. Hayes by a one vote margin in the Electoral…Cliff PageDecember 6, 2017
Review Posts Gettysburg Rebels A review of Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home To Fight As Confederate…Bill PotterDecember 5, 2017
Blog Through a Lens Darkly There is an old saying in the theater that when one is acting the part…John MarquardtDecember 4, 2017
Blog Kansas University Honoring War Criminals? After the rousing success of Kansas University’s redesigned football uniforms in honor of Jennison’s Jay-hawkers…Lewis LibermanDecember 1, 2017
Review Posts Pickett’s Charge — The Last Attack at Gettysburg A review of Pickett’s Charge – The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess (UNC Press,…John C. WhatleyNovember 28, 2017
Blog Slavery and the War The recent apoplexy over White House Chief-of-Staff John Kelly’s comments about Robert E. Lee and…Michael ArmstrongNovember 27, 2017
Blog Lee, Kelly, and the Marxists You would think that David Duke had somehow been elected president. Or, maybe in this…Boyd CatheyNovember 15, 2017
Blog A Little Change in the Weather We hear endless accounts today concerning the dire effects of global climate change, as well…John MarquardtNovember 10, 2017
Blog Jewish Confederates The Jewish people have endured much throughout their long history, yet have always continued to…Jonathan HarrisNovember 9, 2017
Blog Citizen Lee At the time of his death, was Robert E. Lee a man without a country?…William FreehoffNovember 2, 2017
Review Posts “A Real Personage-And Not an Odd Name Merely…” A Review of States Rights Gist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War, by…Barry KayOctober 17, 2017
Blog Russia vs. the Confederacy Russian-American relations over the past two and a half centuries, like the weather in Alaska,…John MarquardtOctober 16, 2017
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