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Abolitionism

The Antebellum South in the Reformation Tradition

By Jonathan Harris

On October 31, while many parents whisk their little ones from house to house in the pursuit of temporal tasty treats, a large portion of Christendom will be observing the 500th anniversary of the Protestant… »

  • Abolitionism
  • James Henley Thornwell
  • Jonathan Harris
  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern Religion

The Cause of Jackson is the Cause of Us All

By James Rutledge Roesch

Old Hickory has been chopped off the front of the twenty-dollar bill. Andrew Jackson will still appear on the back of the bill, but Harriet Tubman (freed slave, conductor on the mostly mythical Underground Railroad,… »

  • Abolitionism
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Harriet Tubman
  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Political Correctness
  • Slavery
  • Southern Conservatism
  • Thomas Jefferson

The Prophetic Sage of Roanoke

By John Devanny

There is no more singular statesman or person in the history of American politics than John Randolph of Roanoke. Eccentric in the extreme, volatile, and often ill-tempered, this Saint Michael of the South, this scourge… »

  • Abolitionism
  • Agrariansim
  • John Devanny
  • John Randolph of Roanoke
  • Republicanism
  • Thomas Jefferson

Understanding “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”: How Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe Influenced the Northern Mind

By Howard Ray White

The most influential literary contribution to the politics of the northern States during the mid-to-late 1850’s — helping incite State Secession and a horrific four-year war that killed 360,000 Federals — was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s… »

  • Abolitionism
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Howard Ray White
  • War for Southern Independence

Steady Habits and Chivalry

By Clyde Wilson

The burden of our endeavour in this conference is to examine the great morality play of Northern Good versus Southern Evil that is the conventional history of anti-slavery in the United States. This convention dominates… »

  • Abolitionism
  • Abolitionists
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Jedidiah Morse
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Noah Webster
  • Slavery
  • Thomas Jefferson

Understanding “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

By Howard Ray White

In the mid-1800’s women were not to be leaders in politics and religion, but Harriet Beecher Stowe and Julia Ward Howe did just that. Of Harriet, daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister of Henry Ward… »

  • Abolitionism
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • Howard Ray White
  • John Brown
  • Slavery
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Book Review
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Featured
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  • Slavery
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
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  • Southern Tradition
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
  • 2019 Summer School: The New South
  • 2018 Scholars Conference: The Revival of Secession and State Nullification
  • 2018 Summer School: Southern Identity Through Southern Music
  • 2018 Scholars Conference: Attacking Confederate Monuments and its Meaning for America
  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
  • 2016 Scholars Conference: Nullification: A 21st Century Remedy
  • 2016 Summer School: The Southern Tradition and the Renewal of America
  • 2015 Summer School: The Southern Tradition
  • 2014 Summer School: The War for Southern Independence
  • 2013 Scholars Conference: Music and the Southern Tradition
  • 2013 Summer School: Understanding the South and the Southern Tradition
  • 2012 Scholars Conference: The War Between the States: Other Voices Other Views
  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
  • 2011 Scholars Conference: The South and America’s Wars
  • 2011 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature II
  • 2010 Scholars Conference: State Nullification Secession and the Human Scale of Political Order
  • 2010 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature
  • 2009 Summer School: The Meaning and Legacy of Reconstruction
  • 2008 Summer School: Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric
  • 2007 Summer School: The Origin of Southern Identity and the Culture of the Old South
  • 2006 Summer School: The Southern Agrarian Tradition
  • 2005 Summer School: Re-Thinking Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Symbol, The Legacy
  • 2004 Summer School: The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism: 1798-1861
  • 2003 Summer School: The American Decentralist Tradition
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