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

Donnie Kennedy

Expertitis

By Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy

Watching events unfold as the non-pandemic/pandemic worked its way across the fruited plain has been an eye-opening experience.  For those of us who have been warning Americans that the Constitution is nothing but a paper… »

  • Donnie Kennedy
  • Federalism
  • United States Constitution

The Craggy Hill of Slavery

By Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy

A review of It Wasn’t About Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War (Regnery History, 2020) by Samuel Mitcham On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and he that will Reach… »

  • Book Review
  • Donnie Kennedy
  • Featured
  • Samuel W. Mitcham
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

Punished with Poverty

By Clyde Wilson

A review of Punished with Poverty: The Suffering South-Prosperity to Poverty & the Continuing Struggle (Shotwell, 2016) by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy This is one of the most important works of American history… »

  • Book Review
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Donnie Kennedy
  • Featured
  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • New South
  • Reconstruction
  • The War for Southern Independence

Accuse-Convict-Remove

By Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy

In the past few weeks two major interrelated events took place in these once United States of America that should serve as a warning for all Americans.  First, after the most contentious confirmation process for… »

  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Cultural Marxism
  • Donnie Kennedy
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

Wall Street Journal’s Confederate Animus

By Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy

A review of Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. (Regnery History, 2018). On the eve of the War for Southern Independence an article was published… »

  • Book Review
  • Donnie Kennedy
  • Featured
  • Samuel W. Mitcham
  • Vicksburg
  • War for Southern Independence

The South’s Stockholm Syndrome

By Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy

The Stockholm Syndrome is a condition where captives or hostages develop a psychological attachment and loyalty to their captors.  Psychologists often describe this syndrome as a “survival strategy.”    This strategy is employed by captives when… »

  • Donnie Kennedy
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture

Yankee Narrative vs. Southern Truth

By Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy

To the chagrin and mortification of many liberals, Rolling Stone magazine had to apologize for its “lack of accuracy,” otherwise known as a lie, in a highly publicized article. In ‘A Rape on Campus: A… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Donnie Kennedy
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • Southern Politics

Forty-eight Years as a Southern Nationalist

By Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy

“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war!” Occasionally a scene or event will cross one’s path that will set the machinery of memory running at full speed. Recently while watching Bill O’Reilly and… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Donnie Kennedy
  • Secession
  • Southern Nationalism
  • 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