"Some crazy person just compared President Abraham Lincoln to Hitler. Yes, this just happened on…
Ilana MercerSeptember 7, 2017
It takes men of worth to recognize worth in men. – Thomas Carlyle Totalitarian movements…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.August 16, 2017
Review of Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford.…
Jason KorbelAugust 15, 2017
A review of William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. by Eric…
Jonathan WhiteAugust 8, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When historians discuss reasons for Southern secession,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 31, 2017
Foreword for A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General, American Legend,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 13, 2017
A review of Bust Hell Wide Open: the Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Samuel…
James Rutledge RoeschJuly 11, 2017
A common technique of Liberal ideologues is to change the meanings of words to suit…
Gail JarvisJuly 10, 2017
Malcolm X wrote that “History is a weapon.” He was right, and no topic encompasses this truth…
Dissident MamaJuly 3, 2017
“…You said he's a Confederate general. They're the bad guys. And he's probably racist… We're…
Travis ArchieJune 28, 2017
In a recent column for the Associated Press, entitled “Old South monument backers embrace Confederate…
Carl JonesJune 26, 2017
This article was originally published in Southern Partisan magazine in 1994. The past—what we believe…
Ludwell H. JohnsonJune 23, 2017
The promise of “Freedom of the Press” becomes meaningless when large national “Progressive/Liberal” conglomerates maintain…
James Ronald KennedyJune 21, 2017
The Confederate battle flag is, as John Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy titled…
James Rutledge RoeschJune 15, 2017
Anyone who has been paying attention has heard many times the assertion that the flag…
Clyde WilsonJune 14, 2017
Political correctness didn't succeed as well as the Left had hoped it would because PC…
Gail JarvisJune 8, 2017
The political market, as the economic market, has the demand and supply dynamic. Interest groups…
Marshall DeRosaJune 6, 2017
Two weeks ago New Orleans removed its Robert E. Lee Monument, one of four that…
Boyd CatheyJune 5, 2017
George Orwell, in his dystopian novel 1984, wrote that “Ignorance is strength.” Big Brother thrives…
H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 1, 2017
Statement about the “slavery the sole cause of the war” plaque affixed to the Confederate…
Clyde WilsonMay 31, 2017
This essay was written in 1982 under the direction of Emory Thomas at the University…
William CawthonMay 26, 2017
This piece was originally published at Townhall.com. Mayor Mike Signer—who had declared his intention to…
Ilana MercerMay 25, 2017
You can stand on the station platform at Harpers Ferry and see three States, two…
Holmes AlexanderMay 19, 2017
Historians and pundits came out in droves decrying President Trump’s recent claim that Andrew Jackson…
Samuel C. SmithMay 11, 2017
Despite nearly universal scolding in the mainstream media, President Trump’s suggestion that a compromise similar…
Philip LeighMay 9, 2017
As the slow process of excavating the marvel continues, more and more revelations are coming…
Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2017
Confederate Flag Day Address Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia March 4,2017 I had the honor of…
Patrick McSweeneyMay 4, 2017
In a recent interview on Sirius XM, President Trump, now completely enthralled by Andrew Jackson,…
Ryan WaltersMay 2, 2017
A Review of Joseph W. Danielson, War's Desolating Scourage: The Union's Occupation of North Alabama,…
Brion McClanahanApril 14, 2017
Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…
Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
A prevailing notion throughout the grand land of America is that the constant brouhaha down…
Paul H. YarbroughMarch 31, 2017
Historian and novelist Thomas Fleming is the author of more than fifty books, including two…
Thomas DiLorenzoMarch 29, 2017
“If you, who represent the stronger portion, cannot agree to settle on the broad principle…
J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2017
On the morning of July 5, 1880, Colonel E.B.C. Cash and Colonel William M. Shannon…
Charles GoolsbyMarch 24, 2017
Like it or not, movies are the main art form of our time, the story-telling…
Clyde WilsonMarch 6, 2017
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington stare silently at one another across the reflecting pool on…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 22, 2017
In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer that the “false…
Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2017
Early in February, the City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia voted 3-2 to remove a bronze…
Allan BrownfieldFebruary 14, 2017
No one interested in American history can escape Abraham Lincoln. Over the years the outpouring…
Ludwell H. JohnsonFebruary 13, 2017
Millions know Scarlett O'Hara's fictional story. Yet few among even the staunchest Southerners know the…
Anne FunderburgJanuary 24, 2017
Several years ago, leftist blowhard Richard Cohen at the Washington Post wrote that Robert E.…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 19, 2017
Stonewall lay dying of his wounds at Chancellorsville — "the most successful movement of my…
Holmes AlexanderJanuary 17, 2017
V.P. Hughes, A Thousand Points of Truth: The History and Humanity of Colonel John Singleton…
James Rutledge RoeschJanuary 16, 2017
An article by a Canadian historian in a recent issue of the North Carolina…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 4, 2017
William Porcher DuBose of South Carolina is not well known today, but in the early…
Karen StokesDecember 15, 2016
A review of Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men Who Fought for the South, By Helen P.…
Clyde WilsonDecember 14, 2016
It is generally thought that when the earliest Homo sapiens arrived on the scene in Africa…
John MarquardtDecember 9, 2016
"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” wrote Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway in 1775.…
Ryan WaltersDecember 5, 2016
Martin Scorcese, in an interview, candidly described his new film, "Gangs of New York," as…
Clyde WilsonNovember 2, 2016
Jack Hinson’s One-Man War by Tom C. McKenney; ISBN: 978-1-58980-640-5, Pelican, January 27, 2009, 400…
Terry HulseyOctober 24, 2016
(13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
Since most modern historians agree that the South seceded to protect slavery they often conclude…
Philip LeighSeptember 2, 2016
In 1896 at the Reunion of United Confederate Veterans in New Orleans, Gen. Steven Dill…
Lunelle McCallisterAugust 26, 2016
In 1935 the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) constructed Confederate Memorial Hall as a…
Philip LeighAugust 22, 2016
Last week’s vote (June 2016) to repudiate the Battle Flag by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)…
Ben ThompsonAugust 16, 2016
The perennial champion of racial division and hatred has, unfortunately, returned to Louisiana politics. Duke’s…
James Ronald KennedyAugust 15, 2016
In a recent Huffington Post video, director-turned-historian Gary Ross, of the film “Free State of…
Ryan WaltersAugust 8, 2016
Editor's Note: This article was originally published at The Southern Literary Review and is an…
Allen MendenhallAugust 5, 2016
Jefferson Davis was the conservative who tried vainly to save the Union in the face…
Bernard ThuersamAugust 2, 2016
My friends, there is one issue before you, and to all sensible men but one…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 1, 2016
This essay was published as a new introduction for Lytle's Bedford Forrest and His Critter…
Andrew Nelson LytleJuly 13, 2016
Hollywood has struck again with another “Civil War” movie that, unsurprisingly as it may seem,…
Ryan WaltersJuly 12, 2016
Recently a commencement speaker exhorted graduating students to "be on the right side of history."…
Gail JarvisJuly 7, 2016
This essay was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine, 1985. Historians have long misinterpreted the…
Paul GottfriedJuly 6, 2016
This essay was originally published at TheImagninativeConservative.org and is republished here by permission. The finest…
Bradley J. BirzerJune 16, 2016
At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the…
M.E. BradfordJune 14, 2016
Calvin Coolidge is one of the more maligned presidents in American history. I rank him…
Brion McClanahanJune 13, 2016
This piece is published in honor of Davis's birthday, June 3. With unaffected distrust of…
Charles Betts GallowayJune 3, 2016
Originally published at Circa1865.com. The presidential messages of Jefferson Davis were filled with assertions of…
Bernard ThuersamMay 20, 2016
According to the standard narrative maintained by the North, Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation brought about…
Dave BennerMay 16, 2016
The most recent issue of Hallowed Ground, a publication of the Civil War Trust, features…
Karen StokesMay 11, 2016
Delivered May 6, 2016 in Columbia, SC. Archibald MacLeish was a 20th century poet, author…
Herbert ChambersMay 10, 2016
Editor's Note: A Mother's Day special dedicated to all Southern wives and mothers, this piece…
Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 8, 2016
Many people know that the state of West Virginia came to be during the Civil…
Dave BennerMarch 28, 2016
From time to time an unsuspecting tourist visiting the ruins of the Old Sheldon Church…
Gail JarvisMarch 22, 2016
William T. Sherman viewed Southerners as he later viewed American Indians, to be exterminated or…
Bernard ThuersamMarch 21, 2016
Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about”…
Clyde WilsonMarch 9, 2016
“To live honestly is to hurt no one, and give to every one his due.”-Lysander…
Matt De SantiMarch 8, 2016
The most frequent question I have received during promotion of my new book, 9 Presidents…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 26, 2016
This essay is a chapter in M.E. Bradford, Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a…
M.E. BradfordFebruary 18, 2016
Mr. President, during the special session of the Senate in March last, when seven States…
James A. BayardFebruary 16, 2016
This essay is taken from The South in the Building of the Nation Series, Vol.…
George PetrieFebruary 11, 2016
This essay is excerpted from the Preface to Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier,…
James I. Robertson, Jr.January 21, 2016
"And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice….."…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 20, 2016
January 19 will mark the 209th anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee in…
Mike ScruggsJanuary 19, 2016
I was watching the national news immediately after the San Bernardino terror. A sympathetic host…
Herbert ChambersJanuary 18, 2016
This articles was originally published as Chapter 27 in Understanding the War Between the States,…
Earl L. IjamesJanuary 8, 2016
A review of Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan,…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 6, 2016
You might not find Stark Young's So Red The Rose in current recommendations of novels…
Gail JarvisDecember 31, 2015
Introduction This is James Johnston Pettigrew’s only book, privately printed in Charleston in the first…
Clyde WilsonDecember 30, 2015
THE IMMORTALS: A STORY OF LOVE AND WAR In 1861, as a deadly conflict looms…
Karen StokesDecember 29, 2015
On July fourth 1861, Major J.P. Gillis made a public display of his support of…
Matt De SantiDecember 28, 2015
This piece is taken from Varina Davis's recollections of life in the South, published in…
Varina DavisDecember 25, 2015
Illinois has been known as the “Land of Lincoln” for the past sixty years .…
John MarquardtDecember 18, 2015
We have been taught that the North was united behind Lincoln in his war. This…
John BattellDecember 17, 2015
Gentlemen of the Historical Society of Mecklenburg (1876): Our president has appropriately introduced the series…
Daniel Harvey HillDecember 15, 2015
By way of prologue, let me say that all of us like the Lincoln whose…
Thomas LandessDecember 10, 2015
A speech delivered in Richmond, VA, February 22, 1896 at the opening of the Museum…
Bradley Tyler JohnsonNovember 24, 2015
A century prior to the War Between the States, a German magazine writer, pseudo-scientist and…
John MarquardtNovember 23, 2015
This article was originally printed in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran Magazine. In…
Boyd CatheyNovember 19, 2015
Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
This story was originally published at Alabama Pioneers and comes from the book Alokoli :…
Clemmie Parker WilcoxNovember 9, 2015
I. THE name First given to the territory occupied by the present United States was…
Lyon G. TylerNovember 6, 2015
...... Although I have never Sought popularity by any animated Speeches or Inflammatory publications against…
Vito MussomeliOctober 20, 2015
Well, another year has come and gone that the Auburn Heritage Association did not invite…
Tom DanielOctober 16, 2015
Criss-crossing the South, from Virginia and Maryland to Texas, and from Missouri and Tennessee to…
John MarquardtOctober 9, 2015
I spent some time perusing my son's sixth grade history book. I didn't read it…
Carl JonesOctober 8, 2015
The peaceful political separation desired by the American South in early 1861 was best summarized…
Bernard ThuersamOctober 5, 2015
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (2014) by S.C. Gwynne. A…
Terry HulseySeptember 25, 2015
With its usual promotional hype, PBS re-broadcasted its 1990 program The Civil War. This 25-year-old…
Gail JarvisSeptember 24, 2015
“The one great principle, which produced our secession from the United States – was constitutional…
James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 22, 2015
About the author: Elizabeth Otis Marshall Dannelly (1838-1896), a native of Madison, Georgia, was a…
Karen StokesSeptember 15, 2015
If you showed the average American pictures of famous figures from Confederate States of America,…
Dave BennerSeptember 4, 2015
In the antebellum era, Matthew Carey, Philadelphia publisher and journalist, was the most zealous and…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2015
Chapter 29, on "Lives Lost," in the newly released booklet, "Understanding the War Between the…
William CawthonAugust 28, 2015
In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…
Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
With all due apologies to Samuel Clemens, I like to think of myself as a…
John MarquardtAugust 17, 2015
A new video entitled “Was the Civil War About Slavery?” from Prager University is currently…
Dave BennerAugust 14, 2015
Persons interviewed on those amusing and disturbing videos by satirist Mark Dice, were unaware of…
Gail JarvisAugust 13, 2015
Wouldn’t it be great if an act of Congress enabled your federal government bonds to…
Philip LeighJuly 31, 2015
On October 17, 1862 William E. Gladstone, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered a speech…
Mark BaxterJuly 28, 2015
Any sensible, reasonable person is deeply saddened by the atrocious and tragic murder of nine…
Carl JonesJuly 10, 2015
“Texans! The troops of other states have their reputations to gain, but the sons of…
James Rutledge RoeschJuly 3, 2015
Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain must think, and hide the…
John DevannyJune 26, 2015
“Way down in Missouri…Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me…” – Lyrics from…
Travis ArchieJune 23, 2015
In her famous diary, Mary Chesnut called Mrs. Louisa S. McCord “the very cleverest woman”…
Karen StokesJune 19, 2015
“The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
Delivered as the commencement address for South Carolina College, 1887. What theme is most fitting…
John Randolph TuckerJune 11, 2015
Jefferson Davis delivered this message to the Confederate Congress on 18 February 1861. GENTLEMEN OF…
Jefferson DavisJune 5, 2015
A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth,…
Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2015
This piece originally appeared in Southern Partisan magazine in 1983. Rosemont Plantation, the childhood home…
Robert McHughJune 3, 2015
This piece was originally published in Southern Partisan magazine in 1987-88. A few years ago…
Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 29, 2015
This article was originally published in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 32, No. 1…
Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 28, 2015
Life and Work Why Read Ludwell Johnson? Both Ludwell Johnson’s style of work and…
Joseph R. StrombergMay 26, 2015
Few Americans know of the great American scientist Matthew Fontaine Maury, and those that do…
Brion McClanahanMay 22, 2015
This piece originally appeared in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1984. The Thirteen Colonies in their…
Sheldon VanaukenMay 21, 2015
With the Sesquicentennial of the epic war of American history winding down, many may think…
William CawthonMay 19, 2015
This piece was originally printed at res33blog.com. The commentary by University of North Carolina-Wilmington history…
R.E. Smith, Jr.May 18, 2015
Donald Davidson's (1893-1968) Lee in the Mountains was one of the first pieces we ran…
Brion McClanahanMay 11, 2015
After my last trip to Gettysburg with Kent Masterson Brown, I could hardly wait for…
James Rutledge RoeschMay 4, 2015
A so-called "writer" for al.com, Charles J. Dean, in an article entitled Today Alabama officially…
Carl JonesApril 30, 2015
Abbeville scholar Clyde Wilson recently received this charming from Ms. Joscelyn Dunlop of Edenton, North…
Clyde WilsonApril 24, 2015
“We the people” of Dixie are in a unique position in today’s America. We are,…
James Ronald KennedyApril 23, 2015
Originally published by the Unz Review on 15 April 2015. Back in 1990 in Richmond,…
Boyd CatheyApril 17, 2015
From the Confederate Veteran Magazine, Volume 4, 1916, pages 4-5. John Tyler, distinguished Virginian and…
Abbeville InstituteApril 2, 2015
In talking about the Southern political tradition, it is most appropriate to point to the…
Clyde WilsonApril 1, 2015
John Mitchel (1815-1875) was a fiery Irish nationalist who was convicted of treason by the…
Karen StokesMarch 17, 2015
John Cussons had enough. It was 1897, and for thirty-two years he had watched as…
Brion McClanahanMarch 13, 2015
Reprinted from res33blog.com with permission. On March 5, 2015 a Wilmington StarNews editorial opinion ran…
R.E. Smith, Jr.March 9, 2015
James M. McPherson recently appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his latest book, Embattled…
James Rutledge RoeschMarch 5, 2015
In American higher education of the past forty years, I have observed two American histories,…
David AikenMarch 3, 2015
The following is excerpted from a letter which I sent to my State Senator At…
James Rutledge RoeschFebruary 19, 2015
The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2015
Introduction As we are now in the midst of the sesquicentennial of the Union Army’s…
Paul C. GrahamFebruary 17, 2015
On February 5, 1865, the last of General Sherman’s troops crossed the Savannah River into…
Karen StokesFebruary 16, 2015
Review of the new film Field of Lost Shoes: I have written before here and…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2015
Today we celebrate the birthday of the log cabin born, rough-hewn, rail-splitting, bare-knuckled, “pock-faced, stoop-shouldered,…
Brion McClanahanFebruary 12, 2015
The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 11, 2015
Late in August 2001 my wife Barbara and I visited the classic Southern city of…
R.E. Smith, Jr.February 5, 2015
Scholars who have seriously studied the question of what Northerners and Southerners were fighting for…
James Rutledge RoeschFebruary 2, 2015
By mid- January 1865, General Sherman’s campaign in South Carolina had begun in earnest. Some…
Karen StokesJanuary 30, 2015
This entry was originally published by The Society of Independent Southern Historians. The truth about…
Becky CalcuttJanuary 28, 2015
We gather here today to honor the memory of brave men who willingly faced the…
James Ronald KennedyJanuary 27, 2015
In my capacity as editor of the Palmetto Partisan, I keep a very close eye…
Paul C. GrahamJanuary 26, 2015
No American historian, so far as I know, has ever tried to work out the…
H.L. MenckenJanuary 22, 2015
No American historian, so far as I know, has ever tried to work out the…
H.L. MenckenJanuary 22, 2015
This essay is part of the chapter "Southerners" in Brion McClanahan's The Politically Incorrect Guide…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 21, 2015
Delivered at the Blount County Courthouse, January 19, 2015. Robert E. Lee said “Everyone…
Carl JonesJanuary 21, 2015
I am honoured to be back in my native State (North Carolina) where the weak…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 19, 2015
January 2015 ushers in the last year of the sesquicentennial of the War for Southern…
Karen StokesJanuary 7, 2015
Maryland is steeped in the history of the American Union. She fiercely defended her position…
Scott StrzelczykJanuary 6, 2015
The kind of military onslaught that Union Gen. William Sherman unleashed on the South, beginning…
Kirkpatrick SaleJanuary 5, 2015
Robert Barnwell Rhett, born on December 21, 1800, is remembered as one of the foremost…
Brion McClanahanDecember 22, 2014
Address of Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr. before Company a (Gregg's regiment), First S. C. Volunteers,…
Edward McCrady, Jr.December 1, 2014
Lately, media outlets have been giving some attention to the 150th anniversary of General William…
Karen StokesNovember 28, 2014
As 1861 drew to a close, Governor Thomas Hicks recorded for posterity the events of…
J.L. BennettNovember 19, 2014
"To parties of special interests, all political questions appear exclusively as problems of political tactics."…
Clyde WilsonNovember 19, 2014
“The amount of plundering, burning, and stealing done by our own army makes me ashamed…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 18, 2014
This piece was originally published on November 16, 2012 on LewRockwell.com and is reprinted here…
Brion McClanahanNovember 17, 2014
"Your enemy is not a criminal just because he is your enemy." —Saying credited to…
Clyde WilsonNovember 17, 2014
Southern history contains many fine examples of literary and artistic merit long ignored by contemporary…
Brion McClanahanNovember 13, 2014
*Apologies to Jon White from whom I sole the title for this piece. Invariably, any…
John DevannyNovember 12, 2014
Acclaimed in his time as the “Calhoun of the Church,” James Henley Thornwell was a…
Karen StokesNovember 11, 2014
As with literature, nineteenth-century American art is dominated by the North and Northern subjects. The…
Brion McClanahanNovember 7, 2014
The most influential literary contribution to the politics of the northern States during the mid-to-late…
Howard Ray WhiteOctober 29, 2014
By October 1864, the city of Charleston, South Carolina had been undergoing a bombardment for…
Karen StokesOctober 23, 2014
I just returned from Kent Masterson Brown’s three-day tour of the Battle of Gettysburg. Brown,…
James Rutledge RoeschOctober 21, 2014
I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…
Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
As the first American bombs begin to rain down on mud and adobe structures in…
James Ronald KennedyOctober 13, 2014
Many current Americans, indeed perhaps most, regard the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861…
Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2014
During the War Between the States, thousands of Americans were incarcerated for political reasons in…
Karen StokesOctober 7, 2014
“What caused the Civil War?” Ever since the close of the conflict, historians have been…
James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 22, 2014
After the War Between the States began, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas…
Karen StokesSeptember 19, 2014
This essay originally appeared in Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 17, 2014
“No wonder men were willing to fight for such a country as ours—and such women.…
James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 10, 2014
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred so much of the President's Message…
Confederate States of AmericaSeptember 4, 2014
“The Civil War was fought over slavery.” If you want verification of this “known” fact,…
James Ronald KennedySeptember 2, 2014
Because of the 1989 movie Glory, many Americans know of the battle on Morris Island…
Karen StokesAugust 29, 2014
From April to July of 1863 British Lieutenant Colonel Arthur J. L. Fremantle visited all…
Philip LeighAugust 26, 2014
One of the oldest and most prestigious sporting events in modern Western Civilization, “The America’s…
Brion McClanahanAugust 25, 2014
“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late.…
James Rutledge RoeschAugust 21, 2014
For centuries the Scottish Highlanders, existing under a clan system, were apt to “revolt” against…
Carl JonesAugust 20, 2014
Writing in 1913, historian Nathaniel Wright Stephenson explained the political situation in America thus: “It…
Karen StokesAugust 5, 2014
On August 24th, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln wrote to politician and editor Henry J. Raymond…
Valerie ProtopapasJuly 31, 2014
The introduction to Mike Church's edited volume of Albert Taylor Bledsoe's masterful work, Is Davis…
Brion McClanahanJuly 23, 2014
We Sons of Confederate Veterans are charged with preserving the good name of the Confederate…
Clyde WilsonJuly 22, 2014
It seems like every family is thankfully blessed with that one, highly motivated individual who…
Tom DanielJuly 21, 2014
In the mid-1800’s women were not to be leaders in politics and religion, but Harriet…
Howard Ray WhiteJuly 18, 2014
About ten years ago, I was invited to participate in a cemetery tour in Auburn,…
Tom DanielJuly 16, 2014
The University of South Carolina mascot is somewhat of a joke among SEC football fans.…
Brion McClanahanJuly 16, 2014
One of the greatest men in American history was born on this date (July 13)…
Clyde WilsonJuly 14, 2014
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed…
Clyde WilsonJuly 9, 2014
Today (July 8) is Lt. Col. John Stith Pemberton's birthday. While not as important to…
Brion McClanahanJuly 8, 2014
From May through early July 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi, a strategically important city on the Mississippi…
Karen StokesJuly 2, 2014
Notwithstanding Ole Miss fans, those opening few bars of “Dixie” sends chills down the back…
Tom DanielJune 30, 2014
Speech of Hon. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama. From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, July 31, 1894…
Joseph WheelerJune 27, 2014
Too often a narrative is passed from one person to the next until it becomes…
Carl JonesJune 23, 2014
For any historian, seeing or hearing the past, holding it in your hand, is almost…
Brion McClanahanJune 17, 2014
Sung on the occasion of decorating the graves of the Confederate dead, at Magnolia Cemetery,…
Henry TimrodJune 16, 2014
After his release from imprisonment in 1867, President Jefferson Davis journeyed to Canada where he…
Bernard ThuersamJune 11, 2014
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo on Lincoln's Second American Revolution from the 2005 Abbeville Institute Summer School.…
Thomas DiLorenzoJune 10, 2014
During the time of the secession of South Carolina and other Southern states, and after…
Karen StokesJune 9, 2014
This piece originally appeared in the North American Review, February 1890. To DO justice to…
Jefferson DavisJune 6, 2014
Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…
Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…
Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
I regularly get bulk e-mails from a website called Clash Daily, which is run by…
Dan E. PhillipsJune 2, 2014
Dear Civil War enthusiasts, students, re-enactors, historians, friends, Over a lifetime of reading and research,…
Ronald F. MaxwellMay 27, 2014
Dear Civil War enthusiasts, students, re-enactors, historians, friends, Over a lifetime of reading and research,…
Ronald F. MaxwellMay 27, 2014
Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…
Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…
Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Part IV (Final) from a section of Dr. Scott Trask’s work in progress, Copperheads and…
H. A. Scott TraskMay 19, 2014
At the annual reunion of the Alabama Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans I sat at…
Carl JonesMay 19, 2014
(13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) We human beings are…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
Part III from a section of Dr. Scott Trask's work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives.…
H. A. Scott TraskMay 13, 2014
Presented at the SC Sons of Confederate Veterans’ Confederate Memorial Day Commemoration South Carolina Statehouse,…
Paul C. GrahamMay 12, 2014
When I was a child growing up in Kirkwood Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, I…
David AikenMay 8, 2014
From Bernard Thuersam's website: Senator Robert Toombs and the Cornerstone of the Confederacy “GENTLEMEN OF…
Bernard ThuersamMay 7, 2014
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