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Confederate Connections

By Clyde Wilson

A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth, was visiting professor at a very prestigious Northern university a few years ago. In idle conversation with some colleagues, he… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Daniel Boone
  • David Crockett
  • Francis Scott Key
  • George Washington
  • Jefferson Davis
  • John Tyler
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  • Robert E. Lee
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The South and the West, Part 2

By Clyde Wilson

It seems my mission here is to bring to your attention unfamiliar and unfashionable truths about American history. Let me give you another one. The American West, the frontier, was NOT conquered and settled by… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Daniel Boone
  • David Crockett
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Southern History
  • War of 1812
  • Western History

The South and the West, Part 1

By Clyde Wilson

When our ever-wise leader set up a program on the American West, he obviously had in mind the geographic west of North America—the Great Plains, mountains, and Pacific coast beyond the Colorado, Red, Arkansas, and… »

  • American Indians
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Daniel Boone
  • Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Southern History
  • The American Frontier
  • Western History

Sayings By or For Southerners

By Clyde Wilson

While I could never with safety repose confidence in a Yankee, I have never been deceived by an Indian. —Daniel Boone That cold-blooded demon called Science has taken the place of all the other demons.… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Daniel Boone
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • William Gilmore Simms
  • Yankees

We’re Them Ol’ Boys Raised on Shotguns

By Carl Jones

When the Celtic people of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern England began coming in large numbers to what would become the United States, the Puritans and Cavaliers were already here. These latter groups were astounded… »

  • Carl Jones
  • Daniel Boone
  • David Crockett
  • Southern Culture

On the Hunt

By Carl Jones

One of the greatest examples of the Southern tradition is a love of the great outdoors. When I was a kid in the 4th Grade, I loved reading about Confederate heroes, but I was also… »

  • Carl Jones
  • Daniel Boone
  • David Crockett
  • Hunting

Daniel Boone Was A Man

By Brion McClanahan

“Daniel Boone was a man, yes a big man.” So began the (now not so) famous Ballad of Daniel Boone by legendary Southern actor Fess Parker. Parker portrayed Boone from 1964-1970 on the television series… »

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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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