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Cancel Culture

Standing Like a Stone Wall

By Paul H. Yarbrough

The City Council of Lexington, Virginia has renamed the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. The new name is Oak Grove Cemetery. The reasons stated were the usual ones. Jackson was a racist who fought for slavery. I… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Chuck Smith
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Political Correctness
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Virginia
  • Yankees

Cancel Culture Comes South

By Boyd Cathey

These violent times in which we live are in some ways unparalleled. For Southerners we have seen monuments memorializing and honoring our past heroes and history—monuments and symbols which have stood for a century—torn down… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Cancel Culture
  • Communism
  • Jessica Krug
  • Northern Studies
  • Yankees

“You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me”

By Joshua Doggrell

A review of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (University of California Press, 2014) by Nadine Hubbs If I had been told a short while ago that I would soon read a book by the Professor… »

  • Book Review
  • Cancel Culture
  • Country Music
  • David Allen Coe
  • Featured
  • Joshua Doggrell
  • Nadine Hubbs
  • Southern Tradition

The Kwanzaafication of America

By Jason Morgan

Kwanzaa is an invented tradition. Billed as a kind of “black Christmas”—you can even buy Kwanzaa greeting cards at the store and mail them with Kwanzaa stamps—the odd holiday was created out of spite by… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Jason Morgan
  • Northern Studies
  • Political Correctness
  • Yankees

What Lee Said About Monuments in 1869

By Ernest Blevins

A frequent argument against Confederate monuments is a “sound bite” of a quote from General Robert E. Lee in 1869 in some variation to “I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Ernest Blevins
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee

Of Apostates and Scapegoats

By H.V. Traywick, Jr.

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Cancel Culture
  • H.V. Traywick
  • Jim Crow
  • Racism
  • Slavery
  • Treason

Cancel Culture Comes to Wake Forest, North Carolina

By Boyd Cathey

I have written previously about the very real dangers of what is called “cancel culture.” Indeed, what we have—what we see and experience today in the United States—is a massive attempt, increasingly successful, to not… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Cancel Culture
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Political Correctness
  • Yankees

Idiotic Idioms

By Philip Leigh

Identity Politics is changing our language in order to advance its agenda. One example is “people of color.” Hemingway would have convulsed at such a laborious construction. Does its nearly Global use today  suggest  that… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness
  • Yankees
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Book Review
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Featured
  • Podcast
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Tradition
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
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  • 2018 Scholars Conference: The Revival of Secession and State Nullification
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  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
  • 2016 Scholars Conference: Nullification: A 21st Century Remedy
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  • 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
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  • 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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