Blog Lincoln or Lee? What Would Hitler Say? "Some crazy person just compared President Abraham Lincoln to Hitler. Yes, this just happened on…Ilana MercerSeptember 7, 2017
Review Posts The Brave Samaritan A Review of The Angel of Marye’s Heights, by Les Carroll, Columbia, SC: Palmetto…Barry KaySeptember 5, 2017
Blog A Monumental Spin It takes men of worth to recognize worth in men. – Thomas Carlyle Totalitarian movements…H.V. Traywick, Jr.August 16, 2017
Review Posts A Series of “What Ifs” Review of Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford.…Jason KorbelAugust 15, 2017
Review Posts William Lowndes Yancey A review of William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. by Eric…Jonathan WhiteAugust 8, 2017
Blog “The Unshaken Rock:” The Jeffersonian Tradition in America Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When historians discuss reasons for Southern secession,…Ryan WaltersJuly 31, 2017
Blog A Rebel Born Foreword for A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General, American Legend,…Clyde WilsonJuly 13, 2017
Review Posts Bust Hell Wide Open A review of Bust Hell Wide Open: the Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Samuel…James Rutledge RoeschJuly 11, 2017
Blog Carpetbagging Southern History A common technique of Liberal ideologues is to change the meanings of words to suit…Gail JarvisJuly 10, 2017
Blog “It is history that teaches us to hope” Malcolm X wrote that “History is a weapon.” He was right, and no topic encompasses this truth…Dissident MamaJuly 3, 2017
Blog Re-Humanizing Johnny Reb “…You said he's a Confederate general. They're the bad guys. And he's probably racist… We're…Travis ArchieJune 28, 2017
Blog The AP Gets It Wrong…Again In a recent column for the Associated Press, entitled “Old South monument backers embrace Confederate…Carl JonesJune 26, 2017
Blog Is the Confederacy Obsolete? This article was originally published in Southern Partisan magazine in 1994. The past—what we believe…Ludwell H. JohnsonJune 23, 2017
Blog The Ad Too Hot to Print—Progressive Censorship in Action The promise of “Freedom of the Press” becomes meaningless when large national “Progressive/Liberal” conglomerates maintain…James Ronald KennedyJune 21, 2017
Blog The Forgotten History of the Confederate Flag The Confederate battle flag is, as John Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy titled…James Rutledge RoeschJune 15, 2017
Blog The War Between the States: Who were the Nazis? Anyone who has been paying attention has heard many times the assertion that the flag…Clyde WilsonJune 14, 2017
Blog New Orleans Mayor Hypes His Cultural Cleansing Political correctness didn't succeed as well as the Left had hoped it would because PC…Gail JarvisJune 8, 2017
Blog The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act and the Political Market The political market, as the economic market, has the demand and supply dynamic. Interest groups…Marshall DeRosaJune 6, 2017
Blog Robert E. Lee, Revolution, and the Question of Historical Memory Two weeks ago New Orleans removed its Robert E. Lee Monument, one of four that…Boyd CatheyJune 5, 2017
Blog Blame Abraham Lincoln for Confederate Monuments George Orwell, in his dystopian novel 1984, wrote that “Ignorance is strength.” Big Brother thrives…H.V. Traywick, Jr.June 1, 2017
Blog “Contextualizing” History Statement about the “slavery the sole cause of the war” plaque affixed to the Confederate…Clyde WilsonMay 31, 2017
Blog Was the South Poor Before the War? This essay was written in 1982 under the direction of Emory Thomas at the University…William CawthonMay 26, 2017
Blog Sanctuary City Mayor Trashes An AMERICAN Hero, Robert E. Lee This piece was originally published at Townhall.com. Mayor Mike Signer—who had declared his intention to…Ilana MercerMay 25, 2017
Blog Virginia’s Lost Counties You can stand on the station platform at Harpers Ferry and see three States, two…Holmes AlexanderMay 19, 2017
Blog Trump on Jackson Historians and pundits came out in droves decrying President Trump’s recent claim that Andrew Jackson…Samuel C. SmithMay 11, 2017
Blog Reconsidering Trump’s “Faux Pas” Despite nearly universal scolding in the mainstream media, President Trump’s suggestion that a compromise similar…Philip LeighMay 9, 2017
Blog High Tech Hunley As the slow process of excavating the marvel continues, more and more revelations are coming…Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2017
Blog Where Will the Attacks End? Confederate Flag Day Address Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia March 4,2017 I had the honor of…Patrick McSweeneyMay 4, 2017
Blog Trump as Historian In a recent interview on Sirius XM, President Trump, now completely enthralled by Andrew Jackson,…Ryan WaltersMay 2, 2017
Blog The Hard Hand of War A Review of Joseph W. Danielson, War's Desolating Scourage: The Union's Occupation of North Alabama,…Brion McClanahanApril 14, 2017
Review Posts A Question of Sovereignty Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
Blog Why Lee? Why Acton? A prevailing notion throughout the grand land of America is that the constant brouhaha down…Paul H. YarbroughMarch 31, 2017
Blog A Disease of the Public Mind Historian and novelist Thomas Fleming is the author of more than fifty books, including two…Thomas DiLorenzoMarch 29, 2017
Review Posts Maryland’s Confederate Sisterhood “If you, who represent the stronger portion, cannot agree to settle on the broad principle…J.L. BennettMarch 28, 2017
Blog Bernard Baruch: Son of the South On the morning of July 5, 1880, Colonel E.B.C. Cash and Colonel William M. Shannon…Charles GoolsbyMarch 24, 2017
Blog Films from the South Like it or not, movies are the main art form of our time, the story-telling…Clyde WilsonMarch 6, 2017
Blog Washington vs. Lincoln Abraham Lincoln and George Washington stare silently at one another across the reflecting pool on…Brion McClanahanFebruary 22, 2017
Blog Union or Else In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer that the “false…Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2017
Blog Attack on Robert E. Lee is an Assault on American History Itself Early in February, the City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia voted 3-2 to remove a bronze…Allan BrownfieldFebruary 14, 2017
Review Posts In Search of the Real Abe Lincoln No one interested in American history can escape Abraham Lincoln. Over the years the outpouring…Ludwell H. JohnsonFebruary 13, 2017
Review Posts Forgotten Heroines of the Confederacy Millions know Scarlett O'Hara's fictional story. Yet few among even the staunchest Southerners know the…Anne FunderburgJanuary 24, 2017
Blog Robert E. Lee: American Hero Several years ago, leftist blowhard Richard Cohen at the Washington Post wrote that Robert E.…Brion McClanahanJanuary 19, 2017
Review Posts Stonewall: By Name and Nature Stonewall lay dying of his wounds at Chancellorsville — "the most successful movement of my…Holmes AlexanderJanuary 17, 2017
Blog This is Mosby V.P. Hughes, A Thousand Points of Truth: The History and Humanity of Colonel John Singleton…James Rutledge RoeschJanuary 16, 2017
Review Posts Old Western Man: C.S. Lewis and the Old South I write not as an expert to tell you of my thought but to explain…Sheldon VanaukenJanuary 10, 2017
Blog Tar Heel’s Revenge An article by a Canadian historian in a recent issue of the North Carolina…Clyde WilsonJanuary 4, 2017
Blog A Southern Saint William Porcher DuBose of South Carolina is not well known today, but in the early…Karen StokesDecember 15, 2016
Blog Harvard Confederates A review of Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men Who Fought for the South, By Helen P.…Clyde WilsonDecember 14, 2016
Blog They Came From the East It is generally thought that when the earliest Homo sapiens arrived on the scene in Africa…John MarquardtDecember 9, 2016
Review Posts A Miscarriage of Justice "Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” wrote Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway in 1775.…Ryan WaltersDecember 5, 2016
Blog Jacobin Yankees Martin Scorcese, in an interview, candidly described his new film, "Gangs of New York," as…Clyde WilsonNovember 2, 2016
Blog Jack Hinson’s One Man War 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
Review Posts Rethinking the War for the 21st Century (13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
Blog Secession Without Civil War Since most modern historians agree that the South seceded to protect slavery they often conclude…Philip LeighSeptember 2, 2016
Blog From Monument to Cenotaph In 1896 at the Reunion of United Confederate Veterans in New Orleans, Gen. Steven Dill…Lunelle McCallisterAugust 26, 2016
Blog Confederate Memorial Hall and Jack Daniels In 1935 the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) constructed Confederate Memorial Hall as a…Philip LeighAugust 22, 2016
Review Posts Truth in the Pit of Political Correctness Last week’s vote (June 2016) to repudiate the Battle Flag by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)…Ben ThompsonAugust 16, 2016
Blog David Duke Does Not Represent Conservative Louisiana The perennial champion of racial division and hatred has, unfortunately, returned to Louisiana politics. Duke’s…James Ronald KennedyAugust 15, 2016
Review Posts Debunking the Debunking: Gary Ross and His “Myths of the Civil War.” In a recent Huffington Post video, director-turned-historian Gary Ross, of the film “Free State of…Ryan WaltersAugust 8, 2016
Blog The Inside War Editor's Note: This article was originally published at The Southern Literary Review and is an…Allen MendenhallAugust 5, 2016
Blog The Unionist Davis vs. The Radical Lincoln Jefferson Davis was the conservative who tried vainly to save the Union in the face…Bernard ThuersamAugust 2, 2016
Review Posts The Tariff and Other Tales from Alabama My friends, there is one issue before you, and to all sensible men but one…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 1, 2016
Blog Nathan Bedford Forrest This essay was published as a new introduction for Lytle's Bedford Forrest and His Critter…Andrew Nelson LytleJuly 13, 2016
Review Posts The Free State of Jones: History or Hollywood? Hollywood has struck again with another “Civil War” movie that, unsurprisingly as it may seem,…Ryan WaltersJuly 12, 2016
Blog A Book for a Southerner’s Bookshelf Recently a commencement speaker exhorted graduating students to "be on the right side of history."…Gail JarvisJuly 7, 2016
Blog Through European Eyes This essay was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine, 1985. Historians have long misinterpreted the…Paul GottfriedJuly 6, 2016
Blog What Lincoln’s Election Meant to South Carolina This essay was originally published at TheImagninativeConservative.org and is republished here by permission. The finest…Bradley J. BirzerJune 16, 2016
Review Posts The Theology of Secession At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the…M.E. BradfordJune 14, 2016
Blog Silent Cal and the War Calvin Coolidge is one of the more maligned presidents in American history. I rank him…Brion McClanahanJune 13, 2016
Review Posts Jefferson Davis: A Judicial Estimate This piece is published in honor of Davis's birthday, June 3. With unaffected distrust of…Charles Betts GallowayJune 3, 2016
Blog Betrayed by Yankees Perverting the Constitution Originally published at Circa1865.com. The presidential messages of Jefferson Davis were filled with assertions of…Bernard ThuersamMay 20, 2016
Blog Hampton Roads: A Twist in the Lincoln Myth According to the standard narrative maintained by the North, Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation brought about…Dave BennerMay 16, 2016
Blog “Don’t Leave Me Here to Bleed to Death!” The most recent issue of Hallowed Ground, a publication of the Civil War Trust, features…Karen StokesMay 11, 2016
Review Posts Remember Us Delivered May 6, 2016 in Columbia, SC. Archibald MacLeish was a 20th century poet, author…Herbert ChambersMay 10, 2016
Review Posts Women of the Southern Confederacy Editor's Note: A Mother's Day special dedicated to all Southern wives and mothers, this piece…Albert Taylor BledsoeMay 8, 2016
Blog Secession Hypocrisy: The Case of West Virginia Many people know that the state of West Virginia came to be during the Civil…Dave BennerMarch 28, 2016
Review Posts The Destruction of Old Sheldon Church and Other Ravages of War From time to time an unsuspecting tourist visiting the ruins of the Old Sheldon Church…Gail JarvisMarch 22, 2016
Blog Death is Mercy to Secessionists William T. Sherman viewed Southerners as he later viewed American Indians, to be exterminated or…Bernard ThuersamMarch 21, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Why The War Was Not About Slavery Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about”…Clyde WilsonMarch 9, 2016
Review Posts The Abolitionist Secessionist? “To live honestly is to hurt no one, and give to every one his due.”-Lysander…Matt De SantiMarch 8, 2016
Blog Rethinkin’ Lincoln The most frequent question I have received during promotion of my new book, 9 Presidents…Brion McClanahanFebruary 26, 2016
Review Posts The Lincoln Legacy: A Long View This essay is a chapter in M.E. Bradford, Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a…M.E. BradfordFebruary 18, 2016
Review Posts Executive Usurpation Mr. President, during the special session of the Senate in March last, when seven States…James A. BayardFebruary 16, 2016
Review Posts The Principle of Secession Historically Traced This essay is taken from The South in the Building of the Nation Series, Vol.…George PetrieFebruary 11, 2016
Review Posts Stonewall Jackson This essay is excerpted from the Preface to Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier,…James I. Robertson, Jr.January 21, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Robert E. Lee and the American Union "And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice….."…Clyde WilsonJanuary 20, 2016
Blog Robert E. Lee: Gallant Soldier, Noble Patriot, True Christian January 19 will mark the 209th anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee in…Mike ScruggsJanuary 19, 2016
Blog American Hypocrisy I was watching the national news immediately after the San Bernardino terror. A sympathetic host…Herbert ChambersJanuary 18, 2016
Blog Southern Stars of David I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,…John MarquardtJanuary 14, 2016
Blog Black Soldiers, North and South, 1861-1865 This articles was originally published as Chapter 27 in Understanding the War Between the States,…Earl L. IjamesJanuary 8, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library Black Confederates? A review of Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan,…Clyde WilsonJanuary 6, 2016
Blog So Red the Rose You might not find Stark Young's So Red The Rose in current recommendations of novels…Gail JarvisDecember 31, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Introduction to James Pettigrew’s Notes on Spain Introduction This is James Johnston Pettigrew’s only book, privately printed in Charleston in the first…Clyde WilsonDecember 30, 2015
Review Posts The Immortals THE IMMORTALS: A STORY OF LOVE AND WAR In 1861, as a deadly conflict looms…Karen StokesDecember 29, 2015
Blog Rebels of the Golden State On July fourth 1861, Major J.P. Gillis made a public display of his support of…Matt De SantiDecember 28, 2015
Review Posts Christmas in Richmond, 1864 This piece is taken from Varina Davis's recollections of life in the South, published in…Varina DavisDecember 25, 2015
Blog South from Egypt Illinois has been known as the “Land of Lincoln” for the past sixty years .…John MarquardtDecember 18, 2015
Review Posts A Wisconsin Copperhead We have been taught that the North was united behind Lincoln in his war. This…John BattellDecember 17, 2015
Review Posts “We want not Gascons, but Southern gentlemen, honorable, high-toned men of strict integrity and straight hair.” Gentlemen of the Historical Society of Mecklenburg (1876): Our president has appropriately introduced the series…Daniel Harvey HillDecember 15, 2015
Review Posts The Dark Side of Abraham Lincoln By way of prologue, let me say that all of us like the Lincoln whose…Thomas LandessDecember 10, 2015
Review Posts No Lost Cause A speech delivered in Richmond, VA, February 22, 1896 at the opening of the Museum…Bradley Tyler JohnsonNovember 24, 2015
Blog Kentucky’s Baron Munchausen A century prior to the War Between the States, a German magazine writer, pseudo-scientist and…John MarquardtNovember 23, 2015
Review Posts A New Reconstruction: The Renewed Assault on Southern Heritage This article was originally printed in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran Magazine. In…Boyd CatheyNovember 19, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Scholars’ Statement in Support of the Confederate Flag (2000) Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
Blog When I Was Little: A tale of life in Mississippi during the War This story was originally published at Alabama Pioneers and comes from the book Alokoli :…Clemmie Parker WilcoxNovember 9, 2015
Review Posts Virginia First I. THE name First given to the territory occupied by the present United States was…Lyon G. TylerNovember 6, 2015
Review Posts Slavery in the Confederate Constitution ...... Although I have never Sought popularity by any animated Speeches or Inflammatory publications against…Vito MussomeliOctober 20, 2015
Blog The Cemetery Tour Revisited Well, another year has come and gone that the Auburn Heritage Association did not invite…Tom DanielOctober 16, 2015
Blog Believe It Or Not… Criss-crossing the South, from Virginia and Maryland to Texas, and from Missouri and Tennessee to…John MarquardtOctober 9, 2015
Blog Reconstruction Continues… I spent some time perusing my son's sixth grade history book. I didn't read it…Carl JonesOctober 8, 2015
Blog One Ruler to Enforce Obedience The peaceful political separation desired by the American South in early 1861 was best summarized…Bernard ThuersamOctober 5, 2015
Blog Discovering Jackson Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (2014) by S.C. Gwynne. A…Terry HulseySeptember 25, 2015
Blog Revisiting 25 Years of Revisionist Claptrap With its usual promotional hype, PBS re-broadcasted its 1990 program The Civil War. This 25-year-old…Gail JarvisSeptember 24, 2015
Review Posts Robert B. Rhett: Liberty Protected by Law “The one great principle, which produced our secession from the United States – was constitutional…James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 22, 2015
Blog Life In The Old Land Yet There is life in the old land of Dixie yet. There seems to be no…Clyde WilsonSeptember 16, 2015
Review Posts Destruction of the City of Columbia, South Carolina: A Poem by a Lady of Georgia. A True Statement of Facts. About the author: Elizabeth Otis Marshall Dannelly (1838-1896), a native of Madison, Georgia, was a…Karen StokesSeptember 15, 2015
Blog Judah P. Benjamin: Able Statesman, Forgotten Patriot If you showed the average American pictures of famous figures from Confederate States of America,…Dave BennerSeptember 4, 2015
Review Posts The War for Southern Independence: My Myth or Yours? In the antebellum era, Matthew Carey, Philadelphia publisher and journalist, was the most zealous and…Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2015
Blog The Cost of Total War in the South Chapter 29, on "Lives Lost," in the newly released booklet, "Understanding the War Between the…William CawthonAugust 28, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library A Sacrifice for His People: The Imprisonment of Jefferson Davis In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
Blog Digging For Southern Roots With all due apologies to Samuel Clemens, I like to think of myself as a…John MarquardtAugust 17, 2015
Blog Was the Civil War About Slavery? A new video entitled “Was the Civil War About Slavery?” from Prager University is currently…Dave BennerAugust 14, 2015
Blog Will Today’s Activists Be Able To Make Robert E. Lee A Villain? Persons interviewed on those amusing and disturbing videos by satirist Mark Dice, were unaware of…Gail JarvisAugust 13, 2015
Blog Civil War Arbitrage Wouldn’t it be great if an act of Congress enabled your federal government bonds to…Philip LeighJuly 31, 2015
Blog The War of Words The guns of the War Between the States fell silent a century and a half…John MarquardtJuly 30, 2015
Review Posts Raphael Semmes and the Confederate Navy On October 17, 1862 William E. Gladstone, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered a speech…Mark BaxterJuly 28, 2015
Blog Nothing is Sacred Any sensible, reasonable person is deeply saddened by the atrocious and tragic murder of nine…Carl JonesJuly 10, 2015
Blog Texas Reject “Texans! The troops of other states have their reputations to gain, but the sons of…James Rutledge RoeschJuly 3, 2015
Blog The Flag Controversy: We Did It To Ourselves Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain must think, and hide the…John DevannyJune 26, 2015
Review Posts Way Down in the (Southern State of) Missouri “Way down in Missouri…Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me…” – Lyrics from…Travis ArchieJune 23, 2015
Blog A Lady Champion of Free Trade In her famous diary, Mary Chesnut called Mrs. Louisa S. McCord “the very cleverest woman”…Karen StokesJune 19, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Goodbye to Gold and Glory “The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
Review Posts The Old and the New South Delivered as the commencement address for South Carolina College, 1887. What theme is most fitting…John Randolph TuckerJune 11, 2015
Blog Independence, Peace, and Prosperity Jefferson Davis delivered this message to the Confederate Congress on 18 February 1861. GENTLEMEN OF…Jefferson DavisJune 5, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Confederate Connections A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth,…Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2015
Review Posts The Truth About Jefferson Davis This piece originally appeared in Southern Partisan magazine in 1983. Rosemont Plantation, the childhood home…Robert McHughJune 3, 2015
Blog The Plundering Generation This piece was originally published in Southern Partisan magazine in 1987-88. A few years ago…Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 29, 2015
Blog Lincoln and Equal Rights: The Authenticity of the Wadsworth Letter This article was originally published in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 32, No. 1…Ludwell H. JohnsonMay 28, 2015
Review Posts Ludwell Johnson: Master Southern Historian Life and Work Why Read Ludwell Johnson? Both Ludwell Johnson’s style of work and…Joseph R. StrombergMay 26, 2015
Blog “Scientist of the Seas” Few Americans know of the great American scientist Matthew Fontaine Maury, and those that do…Brion McClanahanMay 22, 2015
Blog Why the South Fought This piece originally appeared in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1984. The Thirteen Colonies in their…Sheldon VanaukenMay 21, 2015
Review Posts The Sesquicentennial of the War for Southern Independence as Symbolic of the Fallen State of the South With the Sesquicentennial of the epic war of American history winding down, many may think…William CawthonMay 19, 2015
Blog Remembering the War Between the States and Its Aftermath This piece was originally printed at res33blog.com. The commentary by University of North Carolina-Wilmington history…R.E. Smith, Jr.May 18, 2015
Blog Lee in the Mountains, Part 2 Donald Davidson's (1893-1968) Lee in the Mountains was one of the first pieces we ran…Brion McClanahanMay 11, 2015
Blog Kent Brown and Sharpsburg After my last trip to Gettysburg with Kent Masterson Brown, I could hardly wait for…James Rutledge RoeschMay 4, 2015
Blog Yet Another Uneducated, Baseless Attack on the South A so-called "writer" for al.com, Charles J. Dean, in an article entitled Today Alabama officially…Carl JonesApril 30, 2015
Blog The Ides of March 2015 Abbeville scholar Clyde Wilson recently received this charming from Ms. Joscelyn Dunlop of Edenton, North…Clyde WilsonApril 24, 2015
Blog Post Appomattox Fallacies Justifying Federal Tyranny “We the people” of Dixie are in a unique position in today’s America. We are,…James Ronald KennedyApril 23, 2015
Blog On Abraham Lincoln and the Inversion of American History Originally published by the Unz Review on 15 April 2015. Back in 1990 in Richmond,…Boyd CatheyApril 17, 2015
Blog John Tyler Son of Virginia From the Confederate Veteran Magazine, Volume 4, 1916, pages 4-5. John Tyler, distinguished Virginian and…Abbeville InstituteApril 2, 2015
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Blog The Eternal ‘Rebel Yell’ Recently, a friend sent me a link on the Smithsonian web site to a 1930…Boyd CatheyMarch 26, 2015
Blog John Mitchel: Irish Confederate John Mitchel (1815-1875) was a fiery Irish nationalist who was convicted of treason by the…Karen StokesMarch 17, 2015
Blog “United States ‘History’ as the Yankee Makes and Takes It” John Cussons had enough. It was 1897, and for thirty-two years he had watched as…Brion McClanahanMarch 13, 2015
Blog Lincoln’s Words and Misdeeds Reprinted from res33blog.com with permission. On March 5, 2015 a Wilmington StarNews editorial opinion ran…R.E. Smith, Jr.March 9, 2015
Blog The Professor, the Prankster, and the President James M. McPherson recently appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his latest book, Embattled…James Rutledge RoeschMarch 5, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Treasury of Counterfeit Virtue “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!”…Clyde WilsonMarch 4, 2015
Review Posts Southern Core Values In American higher education of the past forty years, I have observed two American histories,…David AikenMarch 3, 2015
Blog Do Confederate Veterans Count? The following is excerpted from a letter which I sent to my State Senator At…James Rutledge RoeschFebruary 19, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Sherman’s March The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2015
Review Posts When the Yankees Come: Former South Carolina Slaves Remember the Invasion Introduction As we are now in the midst of the sesquicentennial of the Union Army’s…Paul C. GrahamFebruary 17, 2015
Blog February 1865: The Invasion Continues On February 5, 1865, the last of General Sherman’s troops crossed the Savannah River into…Karen StokesFebruary 16, 2015
Blog It Could Have Been Worse, Probably Review of the new film Field of Lost Shoes: I have written before here and…Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2015
Blog All Hail Abe! Today we celebrate the birthday of the log cabin born, rough-hewn, rail-splitting, bare-knuckled, “pock-faced, stoop-shouldered,…Brion McClanahanFebruary 12, 2015
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Blog Southern Discomfort Late in August 2001 my wife Barbara and I visited the classic Southern city of…R.E. Smith, Jr.February 5, 2015
Blog The Bonnie Blue Scholars who have seriously studied the question of what Northerners and Southerners were fighting for…James Rutledge RoeschFebruary 2, 2015
Blog The Invasion Begins By mid- January 1865, General Sherman’s campaign in South Carolina had begun in earnest. Some…Karen StokesJanuary 30, 2015
Review Posts Andersonville From the Southern Side This entry was originally published by The Society of Independent Southern Historians. The truth about…Becky CalcuttJanuary 28, 2015
Blog The Art of Remembering We gather here today to honor the memory of brave men who willingly faced the…James Ronald KennedyJanuary 27, 2015
Blog How The War Was About Slavery In my capacity as editor of the Palmetto Partisan, I keep a very close eye…Paul C. GrahamJanuary 26, 2015
Blog The Calamity of Appomattox No American historian, so far as I know, has ever tried to work out the…H.L. MenckenJanuary 22, 2015
Blog The Calamity of Appomattox No American historian, so far as I know, has ever tried to work out the…H.L. MenckenJanuary 22, 2015
Blog Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson This essay is part of the chapter "Southerners" in Brion McClanahan's The Politically Incorrect Guide…Brion McClanahanJanuary 21, 2015
Review Posts The Cause of Jackson and Lee Delivered at the Blount County Courthouse, January 19, 2015. Robert E. Lee said “Everyone…Carl JonesJanuary 21, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Confederate Flag Day I am honoured to be back in my native State (North Carolina) where the weak…Clyde WilsonJanuary 19, 2015
Blog The Cruel Winter of 1865 in South Carolina January 2015 ushers in the last year of the sesquicentennial of the War for Southern…Karen StokesJanuary 7, 2015
Review Posts The Despot’s Heel Was On Thy Shore Maryland is steeped in the history of the American Union. She fiercely defended her position…Scott StrzelczykJanuary 6, 2015
Blog The “Hard Hand of War” The kind of military onslaught that Union Gen. William Sherman unleashed on the South, beginning…Kirkpatrick SaleJanuary 5, 2015
Blog Faithless Government Robert Barnwell Rhett, born on December 21, 1800, is remembered as one of the foremost…Brion McClanahanDecember 22, 2014
Review Posts They Dared to Die Address of Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr. before Company a (Gregg's regiment), First S. C. Volunteers,…Edward McCrady, Jr.December 1, 2014
Blog Conduct of the Northern Army Lately, media outlets have been giving some attention to the 150th anniversary of General William…Karen StokesNovember 28, 2014
Blog Governor Hicks: Accidental Defender of Southern History As 1861 drew to a close, Governor Thomas Hicks recorded for posterity the events of…J.L. BennettNovember 19, 2014
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Blog Rehabbing Sherman “The amount of plundering, burning, and stealing done by our own army makes me ashamed…James Rutledge RoeschNovember 18, 2014
Blog A Lonely Opposition This piece was originally published on November 16, 2012 on LewRockwell.com and is reprinted here…Brion McClanahanNovember 17, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Nolan’s Myth of the “Lost Cause” "Your enemy is not a criminal just because he is your enemy." —Saying credited to…Clyde WilsonNovember 17, 2014
Blog The Despot’s Song! Southern history contains many fine examples of literary and artistic merit long ignored by contemporary…Brion McClanahanNovember 13, 2014
Blog All Slavery, All the Time* *Apologies to Jon White from whom I sole the title for this piece. Invariably, any…John DevannyNovember 12, 2014
Blog Our Danger and Our Duty Acclaimed in his time as the “Calhoun of the Church,” James Henley Thornwell was a…Karen StokesNovember 11, 2014
Blog Painting the Old South As with literature, nineteenth-century American art is dominated by the North and Northern subjects. The…Brion McClanahanNovember 7, 2014
Review Posts Understanding “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: How Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe Influenced the Northern Mind The most influential literary contribution to the politics of the northern States during the mid-to-late…Howard Ray WhiteOctober 29, 2014
Blog Siege of Spite By October 1864, the city of Charleston, South Carolina had been undergoing a bombardment for…Karen StokesOctober 23, 2014
Blog Kent Masterson Brown and Gettysburg I just returned from Kent Masterson Brown’s three-day tour of the Battle of Gettysburg. Brown,…James Rutledge RoeschOctober 21, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners Part V I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
Blog Secession: Remedy for Federal Empires Endless No-Win Wars As the first American bombs begin to rain down on mud and adobe structures in…James Ronald KennedyOctober 13, 2014
Blog We Need No Declaration of Independence Many current Americans, indeed perhaps most, regard the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861…Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2014
Blog The Crime of William Dougherty During the War Between the States, thousands of Americans were incarcerated for political reasons in…Karen StokesOctober 7, 2014
Blog The One Word Answer: Slavery “What caused the Civil War?” Ever since the close of the conflict, historians have been…James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 22, 2014
Blog Hell At Pea Patch Island After the War Between the States began, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas…Karen StokesSeptember 19, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library The Lincoln War Crimes Trial: A History Lesson This essay originally appeared in Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In the…Clyde WilsonSeptember 17, 2014
Review Posts The Original Steel Magnolia “No wonder men were willing to fight for such a country as ours—and such women.…James Rutledge RoeschSeptember 10, 2014
Review Posts Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred so much of the President's Message…Confederate States of AmericaSeptember 4, 2014
Blog State’s Rights Did Not Cause the War “The Civil War was fought over slavery.” If you want verification of this “known” fact,…James Ronald KennedySeptember 2, 2014
Blog The Immortal 600 Because of the 1989 movie Glory, many Americans know of the battle on Morris Island…Karen StokesAugust 29, 2014
Blog Righteous Cause Mythology From April to July of 1863 British Lieutenant Colonel Arthur J. L. Fremantle visited all…Philip LeighAugust 26, 2014
Blog America One of the oldest and most prestigious sporting events in modern Western Civilization, “The America’s…Brion McClanahanAugust 25, 2014
Blog The Letter “Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late.…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 21, 2014
Blog A People Without A Heritage For centuries the Scottish Highlanders, existing under a clan system, were apt to “revolt” against…Carl JonesAugust 20, 2014
Blog Why the South Seceded Writing in 1913, historian Nathaniel Wright Stephenson explained the political situation in America thus: “It…Karen StokesAugust 5, 2014
Blog What It All Was About In Ten Words On August 24th, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln wrote to politician and editor Henry J. Raymond…Valerie ProtopapasJuly 31, 2014
Review Posts Is Davis A Traitor? The introduction to Mike Church's edited volume of Albert Taylor Bledsoe's masterful work, Is Davis…Brion McClanahanJuly 23, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Lies My Teacher Told Me: The True History of the War for Southern Independence We Sons of Confederate Veterans are charged with preserving the good name of the Confederate…Clyde WilsonJuly 22, 2014
Blog A Confederate Tree It seems like every family is thankfully blessed with that one, highly motivated individual who…Tom DanielJuly 21, 2014
Review Posts Understanding “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” In the mid-1800’s women were not to be leaders in politics and religion, but Harriet…Howard Ray WhiteJuly 18, 2014
Blog “The Penmen of the Secession” About ten years ago, I was invited to participate in a cemetery tour in Auburn,…Tom DanielJuly 16, 2014
Blog The Fighting Gamecock The University of South Carolina mascot is somewhat of a joke among SEC football fans.…Brion McClanahanJuly 16, 2014
Blog The Wizard of the Saddle One of the greatest men in American history was born on this date (July 13)…Clyde WilsonJuly 14, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library The Other Side of Union The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed…Clyde WilsonJuly 9, 2014
Blog Confederate Coca-Cola Today (July 8) is Lt. Col. John Stith Pemberton's birthday. While not as important to…Brion McClanahanJuly 8, 2014
Blog Why Vicksburg Canceled the Fourth of July – For a Generation From May through early July 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi, a strategically important city on the Mississippi…Karen StokesJuly 2, 2014
Blog Rebel Yell Notwithstanding Ole Miss fans, those opening few bars of “Dixie” sends chills down the back…Tom DanielJune 30, 2014
Review Posts Slavery and State’s Rights Speech of Hon. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama. From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, July 31, 1894…Joseph WheelerJune 27, 2014
Review Posts Ft. Sumter: The First Act of Aggression Too often a narrative is passed from one person to the next until it becomes…Carl JonesJune 23, 2014
Blog You Should Have Seen It In Color For any historian, seeing or hearing the past, holding it in your hand, is almost…Brion McClanahanJune 17, 2014
Review Posts Ode: Sung on the occasion of decorating the graves of the Confederate dead, at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C., 1866 Sung on the occasion of decorating the graves of the Confederate dead, at Magnolia Cemetery,…Henry TimrodJune 16, 2014
Blog “I cannot speak of my dead so soon.” After his release from imprisonment in 1867, President Jefferson Davis journeyed to Canada where he…Bernard ThuersamJune 11, 2014
Media Posts Lincoln’s Second American Revolution Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo on Lincoln's Second American Revolution from the 2005 Abbeville Institute Summer School.…Thomas DiLorenzoJune 10, 2014
Blog “I cannot fight against the Constitution while pretending to fight for it.” During the time of the secession of South Carolina and other Southern states, and after…Karen StokesJune 9, 2014
Review Posts The Doctrine of State’s Rights This piece originally appeared in the North American Review, February 1890. To DO justice to…Jefferson DavisJune 6, 2014
Blog Farewell Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Blog Farewell Delivered by Jefferson Davis on 21 January 1861 before leaving the United States Senate. I…Jefferson DavisJune 4, 2014
Blog Conservatives for War Criminals? I regularly get bulk e-mails from a website called Clash Daily, which is run by…Dan E. PhillipsJune 2, 2014
Blog Ron Maxwell’s Civil War Classics Dear Civil War enthusiasts, students, re-enactors, historians, friends, Over a lifetime of reading and research,…Ronald F. MaxwellMay 27, 2014
Blog Ron Maxwell’s Civil War Classics Dear Civil War enthusiasts, students, re-enactors, historians, friends, Over a lifetime of reading and research,…Ronald F. MaxwellMay 27, 2014
Blog Centennial Wars Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Blog Centennial Wars Fifty years ago the master narrative of the Civil War Centennial failed to synchronize with…Philip LeighMay 20, 2014
Review Posts A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part IV Part IV (Final) from a section of Dr. Scott Trask’s work in progress, Copperheads and…H. A. Scott TraskMay 19, 2014
Blog Truth At the annual reunion of the Alabama Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans I sat at…Carl JonesMay 19, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Rethinking the War for Southern Independence (13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) We human beings are…Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2014
Review Posts A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part III Part III from a section of Dr. Scott Trask's work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives.…H. A. Scott TraskMay 13, 2014
Blog Honouring Our Fathers Presented at the SC Sons of Confederate Veterans’ Confederate Memorial Day Commemoration South Carolina Statehouse,…Paul C. GrahamMay 12, 2014
Review Posts “Monsters of Virtuous Pretension” When I was a child growing up in Kirkwood Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, I…David AikenMay 8, 2014
Blog The Real Cornerstone Speech From Bernard Thuersam's website: Senator Robert Toombs and the Cornerstone of the Confederacy “GENTLEMEN OF…Bernard ThuersamMay 7, 2014
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