fbpx
Abbeville Institute logo

Abbeville Institute

Skip to content
  • Publications
    • The Review of Books
    • Blog
    • Clyde Wilson Library
    • Abbeville Institute Press
    • Recommended Books, Music & More
  • Video & Audio
    • Podcast
    • Audio Lectures
    • YouTube Videos
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
    • Photo Gallery
  • Purpose
  • Contact
    • Question or Comment
    • Article Submissions
  • Support
    • Shop
    • Donate
    • Endowment Fund & Planned Giving
  • Donate

Confederate States of America

How Arizona Seceded From the Union

By Steve Lee

The United States acquired a vast area of the Southwest with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (May 30, 1848), which included all or part of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico,… »

  • Arizona
  • Confederate States of America
  • Secession
  • Steve Lee
  • War for Southern Independence

Confederate West Virginia

By Frank Ball

Confederate West Virginia has always been an enigma. A bright fellow riding through Monroe County was intrigued by the Confederate monument in a field near Union. This biker-hiker-writer Michael Abraham wondered why. For clues, he… »

  • Confederate States of America
  • Frank Ball
  • Southern History
  • West Virginia

Thomas Benton Smith, The Boy General

By Jeff Wolverton

At the Battle of Nashville, on 16 December 1864, the Tennessean’s brigade, fought valiantly, but Brigadier General Thomas Benton Smith soon found himself surrounded on three sides by Federal troops. A bullet had pierced the… »

  • Confederate States of America
  • Jeff Wolverton
  • Thomas Benton Smith
  • War for Southern Independence

Russia vs. the Confederacy

By John Marquardt

Russian-American relations over the past two and a half centuries, like the weather in Alaska, the land Russia sold to the United States in 1867 for ten dollars a square mile, have blown from very… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Confederate States of America
  • John Marquardt
  • Russia
  • War for Southern Independence

Defending the Confederacy

By Ryan Walters

The South has always had to defend itself, first in the halls of Congress, then militarily on the battlefield, but since 1865 in the annals of history. For surely today we are seen as the… »

  • Confederate Constitution
  • Confederate States of America
  • Ryan Walters
  • War for Southern Independence

They Came From the East

By John Marquardt

  It is generally thought that when the earliest Homo sapiens arrived on the scene in Africa and Asia less than a hundred-thousand years ago, all of North and South America was devoid of human habitation. … »

  • American Indians
  • Confederate States of America
  • John Marquardt
  • Southern History
  • Stand Waite
  • War for Southern Independence

Through European Eyes

By Paul Gottfried

This essay was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine, 1985. Historians have long misinterpreted the responses of Europeans to the events of the American War Between the States. One of the earli­est cases in point… »

  • Confederate States of America
  • Paul Gottfried
  • War for Southern Independence

Raphael Semmes and the Confederate Navy

By Mark Baxter

On October 17, 1862 William E. Gladstone, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered a speech at New Castle concerning the widening conflict in America. He said: “We may have our opinions about slavery; we may… »

  • C.S.S. Alabama
  • Confederate States of America
  • Mark Baxter
  • Raphael Semmes
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence

Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

By Confederate States of America

The real issue involved in the relations between the North and the South of the American States, is the great principle of self-government. Shall a dominant party of the North rule the South, or shall the people of the South rule themselves.

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Confederate States of America
  • Secession
  • Tariff
  • War for Southern Independence
  • 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

Lecture Series

Choose a lecture series below.

  • 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
eBook Exploring Southern Tradition

Get a free gift and Abbeville Institute articles delivered to your inbox.

Timely Abbeville Instritute articles and news delivered directly to your inbox. We’ll also send you an eBook by 20 Abbeville Institute scholars as a free gift.

We hate spam. We’ll never give your email to anyone.

Support Our Mission

Help support our mission to provide quality programs that explore
the Southern tradition

Donate Today

More Ways to Support

  • Home
  • How You Can Help
  • Purpose
  • Question or Comment
  • Article Submissions
© Copyright 2012 - 2021 Abbeville Institute

Choose Your Gift

Books
DVDs