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Eugene Genovese

The Defense of Southern History

By Boyd Cathey

From late 1983 until its fitful demise in the early 2000s, I served as a contributing editor, adviser, or just simply a contributor to the old Southern Partisan magazine. Although a last issue came out… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Eugene Genovese
  • Southern History
  • Southern Tradition

Real Conservatism

By Won Kim

A review of The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994) by Eugene Genovese The notion of a Southern polit­ical tradition can be understood as conservative, complete, and consistent with its… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Book Review
  • Eugene Genovese
  • Featured
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Southern Conservatism
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition

Terrorism, Chivalry, and “The Great Compromise”

By Jerry Salyer

It is unsurprising that one of the antifa groups that have been making the news lately identifies itself with John Brown, the revolutionary abolitionist who was hanged shortly after leading an attack upon Harper’s Ferry… »

  • Eugene Genovese
  • Jerry Salyer
  • John Brown
  • Political Correctness
  • Shelby Foote

New South Voices of the Southern Tradition

By Brion McClanahan

Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. As scholars dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition, we are most often drawn to the antebellum South and the early federal… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Eugene Genovese
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • New South
  • Richard M. Weaver
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern Lit
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition

James Henley Thornwell and Southern Religion

By Eugene Genovese

The God-fearing, Bible-reading, hymn-singing Confederate army grew out of a Southern soil well cultivated during the long struggle of countless, if largely unsung, preachers to civilize a harsh and violent frontier. Personal piety and Bible-centered… »

  • Eugene Genovese
  • James Henley Thornwell
  • Southern Conservatism
  • Southern History
  • Southern Religion
  • Southern Tradition

The Unemancipated Country: Eugene Genovese’s Discovery of the Old South

By Robert L. Paquette

This essay originally appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of Academic Questions (Volume 27, Number 2). On 26 September 2012, Eugene Dominic Genovese, one of the most influential and controversial historians of his generation, passed… »

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  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
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  • 2013 Scholars Conference: Music and the Southern Tradition
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  • 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
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  • 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
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