Get a free gift and Abbeville Institute articles delivered to your inbox.
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
  • Support
    • Shop
    • Donor Options
    • Endowment Fund & Planned Giving
  • Contact
    • Question or Comment
    • Article Submissions

John Tyler

American Diplomacy Under Tyler and Polk

By St. George Sioussat

A review of American Diplomacy under Tyler and Polk (Johns Hopkins, 1907) by Jesse S. Reeves. Both as an interesting chapter in the history of the diplomacy of the United States, and as dealing with… »

  • Abel P. Upshur
  • Book Review
  • California
  • Featured
  • James K. Polk
  • John Tyler
  • Mexico
  • St. George Sioussat
  • Texas

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 Way We Are Now

By Clyde Wilson

I promised to keep you updated on our government’s radio ads. In the latest, the Department of Justice offers you its benevolent services for any problem you might be experiencing with school bullies. * *… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • John Tyler
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics
Abbeville Institute

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
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence

John Tyler Son of Virginia

By Abbeville Institute

From the Confederate Veteran Magazine, Volume 4, 1916, pages 4-5. John Tyler, distinguished Virginian and tenth President of the United States, has received fitting, though long-deferred, honor from the country he served. Fifty-three years after… »

  • John Tyler
  • Southern History
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • War for Southern Independence

True American Whiggery: John Tyler and Abel P. Upshur

By Brion McClanahan

This piece is taken from Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson Forgotten Conservatives in American History. Two dates changed the course of American political history. On 13 September 1841, the Whigs expelled President John Tyler from… »

  • Abel P. Upshur
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Brion McClanahan
  • John Tyler
  • Nullification
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics
  • United States Constitution
  • Whigs

“His Accidency:” The Indispensable John Tyler

By Dave Benner

In honor of John Tyler’s birthday (March 29), I thought it proper to include a excerpt from my new book, Compact of the Republic: The League of States and the Constitution, detailing the actions of… »

  • Dave Benner
  • John Tyler
  • Nullification
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics
  • United States Constitution
  • Whigs
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Book Review
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Featured
  • Podcast
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Literature
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

Lecture Series

Choose a lecture series below.

  • 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 Emancipation Hell

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 Kirkpatrick Sale 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

William Faulkner
$50
Newsletter
Invitation to Events
Book/DVD
M. E. Bradford
$100
Newsletter
Invitation to Events
Book/DVD
John Taylor of Caroline
$200
Newsletter
Invitation to Events
Book/DVD
St. George Tucker
$350
Newsletter
Invitation to Events
Book/DVD
View All Membership Plans
  • Home
  • How You Can Help
  • Purpose
  • Question or Comment
  • Article Submissions
© Copyright 2012 - 2019 Abbeville Institute

Choose Your Gift

Books
DVDs