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M.E. Bradford

The Idea of Equality in America

By Boyd Cathey

Given what is occurring in our society and culture, the ever increasing frenzy and hysteria associated with what is called “the women’s movement” and the ever-changing, always-increasing “racism test,” a review of the basics, a… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Declaration of Independence
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Political Correctness
  • United States Constitution

Steady Hand at the Wheel

By M.E. Bradford

Thomas Johnson was born in Calvert County, Maryland, on his father’s lands near the mouth of St. Leonard’s Creek. He was the son of Thomas and Dorcas Sedgwick Johnson and the grandson of Thomas Johnson,… »

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  • Southern Founders
  • Thomas Johnson
  • United States Constitution

The Americanization of James Iredell

By M.E. Bradford

James Iredell was born at Lewes, Sussex County, England. He was the eldest of the five sons of Francis Iredell, a Bristol merchant, and Margaret McCulloh Iredell, originally of Dublin. Young James came to the… »

  • James Iredell
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Southern Founders

Founding Intentions

By W. Kirk Wood

A review of Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution by M.E. Bradford (Georgia, 1993). Since the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, numberless books re-examining the document and the convention… »

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  • W. Kirk Wood

The Fighting Gamecock: Thomas Sumter

By M.E. Bradford

Thomas Sumter in his encounters with the Indian na­tions enters the pages of recorded history. He had prob­ably been present at the fall of Fort Duquesne and in the campaign across the Ohio River and… »

  • American War for Independence
  • John C. Calhoun
  • John Randolph of Roanoke
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Nullification
  • Southern Founders
  • Thomas Sumter

A Better Guide Than Reason

By Clyde Wilson

A Review of M.E. Bradford, A Better Guide Than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution. 1979. The world’s largest, most ancient, and most exemplary republic observed its bicentennial not long ago. One would expect such… »

  • Book Review
  • Clyde Wilson
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Southern Founding
  • Southern Tradition

The Nabob as Antifederalist: Benjamin Harrison of Virginia

By M.E. Bradford

Benjamin Harrison the Signer was born at Berkely (later called Harrison’s Landing) in Charles City County, Virginia. He was the son of Benjamin Harrison and Anne Carter Harrison, daughter of Robert ‘King’ Carter of Corotoman.… »

  • M.E. Bradford
  • Southern Founders

The Window on the West

By M.E. Bradford

Editor’s note: This piece was published less than ten years (1983) before the end of communist control of Romania. Bradford’s assessment of the Romanian people well applies to the South, a region that had been… »

  • Communism
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Southern People
Patrick Henry

Rats and Republicans

By Paul H. Yarbrough

Never knew for sure where the expression came from that my grandmother voiced to my brother and me from time to time, “You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas,” but whether or… »

  • Donald Trump
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Patrick Henry
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Republican Party
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Southern Politics
  • Ted Cruz

The Theology of Secession

By M.E. Bradford

At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the States which is now, even by the best of Southerners, almost never mentioned, although their forefathers had once spoken of… »

  • M.E. Bradford
  • Richard Weaver
  • Secession
  • Southern Religion
  • War for Southern Independence

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