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Maryland

A (Maryland) Southern Hero

By Paul Callahan

Early in the civil war President Lincoln had Federal Troops occupy the State of Maryland.  Though the power vested only with the US Congress, Mr. Lincoln also took it upon himself to suspend the writ… »

  • Maryland
  • Paul Callahan
  • Ricahrd Bennett Carmichael
  • Secession
  • War for Southern Independence

Maryland’s Confederate Sisterhood

By J.L. Bennett

“If you, who represent the stronger portion, cannot agree to settle [the issues] on the broad principle of justice and duty, say so; and let the States we both represent agree to separate and part… »

  • Joyce Bennett
  • Maryland
  • Rose Greenhow
  • Southern Women
  • War for Southern Independence

The Last of the Romans

By Bradley J. Birzer

This essay was originally published at The Imaginative Conservative and is published here in honor of Carroll’s birthday, September 19. The last of the American signers of the Declaration of Independence to pass from this… »

  • Bradley Birzer
  • Charles Carroll of Carrollton
  • Maryland
  • Southern History

McWhirter Tries to Strike Back

By Brion McClanahan

My recent piece on James Ryder Randall, “At Arlington”, touched a nerve, at least with Christian McWhirter.  I spent some time in “At Arlington” discussing his March Time magazine piece, and thus he was compelled… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Christian McWhirter
  • Maryland
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • Tom Dilorenzo
  • Tom Woods

New From Southern Pens, Part 2

By Clyde Wilson

Maryland Redeemed Everybody knows that our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was written by Francis Scott Key as he watched the British attack on Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor during the War of 1812. Almost… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Maryland
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics

The Despot’s Heel Was On Thy Shore

By Scott Strzelczyk

Maryland is steeped in the history of the American Union. She fiercely defended her position amongst the thirteen original states as a free, independent, and sovereign state. She was the last to accede to The… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Featured
  • Maryland
  • Scott Strzelczyk
  • Secession
  • War for Southern Independence

Governor Hicks: Accidental Defender of Southern History

By J.L. Bennett

As 1861 drew to a close, Governor Thomas Hicks recorded for posterity the events of the Northern invasion and occupation of Maryland in a message he sent to members of the state’s first reconstruction era… »

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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
  • 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
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