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George Washington

Driving Through Virginia’s Historic Triangle, Part II

By Brett Moffatt

George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson trod the roads of this area as the colony of Virginia grew. George Mason, James Madison and Richard Henry Lee sat in the public houses debating political events.… »

  • Brett Moffatt
  • George Washington
  • Southern History
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Virginia
  • Williamsburg

George Washington: A Biography

By Jeff Wolverton

A review of George Washington: A Biography in Seven Volumes (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948-54) by Douglas Southall Freeman This is the definitive George Washington biography and is for the serious reader. The life… »

  • American War for Independence
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  • George Washington
  • Jeff Wolverton

A Little Whiskey Rebellion

By Joe Wolverton

“I plainly perceive that the time will come when a shirt shall not be washed without an excise.”— Representative James Jackson of Georgia, speech against the Whiskey Tax delivered on January 5, 1791 in the… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • George Washington
  • Joe Wolverton
  • Whiskey Rebellion

Washington and Lee: Southerners

By William Wilson

Abbeville Institute scholar Dr. William Wilson presents a talk on the congruity between Washington and Lee at our 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School.

  • George Washington
  • Robert E. Lee
  • William Wilson

Heil to the Chief

By James McClellan

A Review of: The American Presidency: An Intellectual History by Forrest McDonald Kansas, 1994. Since the surrender at Appomattox, the South has been virtually excluded from two of the three branches of the national government.… »

  • Forrest McDonald
  • George Washington
  • James McClellan
  • John Tyler
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Presidents

The American President: From Cincinnatus to Caesar

By Clyde Wilson

The great body of the nation has no real interest in party. — James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat, 1838 The American presidency offers many fascinating questions for historical exploration. And by historical exploration I… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Clyde Wilson
  • George Washington
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • John C. Calhoun
  • United States Constitution

Washington vs. Lincoln

By Brion McClanahan

Abraham Lincoln and George Washington stare silently at one another across the reflecting pool on the National Mall in Washington D.C., their paths inextricably linked by the historians who consider both to be the greatest… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • American War for Independence
  • Brion McClanahan
  • George Washington
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence

Washington’s Rye

By Brion McClanahan

Every student of history knows at least a brief sketch of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, but most people don’t realize that Alexander Hamilton’s excise tax on distilled spirits hit George Washington in the wallet as well,… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Brion McClanahan
  • George Washington
  • Southern History
  • Whiksey
  • Whiskey Rebellion

Women of the Southern Confederacy

By Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Editor’s Note: A Mother’s Day special dedicated to all Southern wives and mothers, this piece was originally published in 1877 in Bledsoe’s The Southern Review. It is strange how we undervalue the historical interest of… »

  • Albert Taylor Bledsoe
  • George Washington
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Women
  • War for Southern Independence

George Washington

By Rufus Wilmot Griswold

From Washington and the Generals of the American Revolution by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and William Gilmore Simms, 1847. (Editor’s Note: Thank you to Simms scholar Jeff Rogers for correcting the auhtorship of this article.  Griswold,… »

  • George Washington
  • Rufus Wilmot Griswold

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