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I’ll Take My Stand

Agrarianism, Republicanism, and Laissez Faire

By Joseph R. Stromberg

From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on “Who Owns America?” October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.

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I’ll Take My Stand: Farming, Poetry, and Resistance

By William Wilson

From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on “Who Owns America?” October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.

  • Agrarianism
  • Bill Wilson
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We’ll Take Our Stand

By Joshua Doggrell

It is not often enough, but I do set aside blocks of time to express gratitude to God for all the many blessings He has bestowed on me in my lifetime. There are many things… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Clyde Wilson
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • Joshua Doggrell
  • Southern Tradition
  • Who Owns America

The Revolt Against Christian Civilization: The Southern View

By Boyd Cathey

Southerners, of all Americans, have been the most acute and the most persistent in their analyses of what has ailed and threatened our culture, certainly since the end of the War for Southern Independence. Only… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern Religion

How to Be a Conservative and the Southern Tradition

By Nicole Williams

A review of How To Be a Conservative (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015), by Sir Roger Scruton. It is highly unusual for any political leader to articulate any sort of learned political philosophy that underscores their beliefs… »

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  • I'll Take My Stand
  • Nicole Williams
  • Roger Scruton
  • Southern Conservatism

Nathan Bedford Forrest and Southern Folkways

By Benjamin Alexander

There are many examples of heroism that illustrate spiritedness in America’s history. Indeed, the American Revolution was won because of the indomitable spirit of the Patriots and a growing unwillingness of the British to put… »

  • Andrew N. Lytle
  • Benjamin Alexander
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Southern Culture
  • War for Southern Independence

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
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Reflections of a Ghost: An Agrarian View After Fifty Years

By Andrew Nelson Lytle

Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the symposium I’ll Take My Stand, only three are alive: Robert Penn Warren, the poet and novelist, Lyle Lanier, a psychologist and former executive vice-president of the University of… »

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  • Andrew N. Lytle
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Southern Culture
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Is Pluralism Enough?

By Walt Garlington

Fr John Strickland, reflecting on the Renaissance of Western Europe, wrote, . . . For Burckhardt, the Renaissance (for the first time a distinct period in history) became the moment of cultural liberation, the breakthrough… »

  • I'll Take My Stand
  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Religion
  • Walt Garlington
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Agrarianism and Cultural Renewal

By H. Lee Cheek, Jr.

This essay was originally printed at The Imaginative Conservative. Among the contributions to I’ll Take My Stand, Allen Tate’s “Remarks on the Southern Religion” is usually interpreted as the most acerbic, immoderate, and unusual essay… »

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