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Nashville Agrarians

A Mass for the Resurrection

By Brion McClanahan

A review of Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (ISI Books, 1999) edited by Herbert Agar and Allen Tate In graduate school, I was assigned by the resident “New South” historian I’ll Take… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Book Review
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Featured
  • Nashville Agrarians
  • Southern Conservatism
  • Who Owns America

A Confederate Dialogue

By Tom Rash

A review of The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate (University of Mississippi Press, 1987), Thomas Daniel Young and Elizabeth Sarcone, eds. Considering Allen Tate’s well-documented contrariness, the four-decade-long friendship of… »

  • Allen Tate
  • Andrew N. Lytle
  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Nashville Agrarians
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Tradition
  • Tom Rash

Recovering Authentic (Politically Incorrect) Conservatism

By Paul Gottfried

A review of Writing on the Southern Front: Authentic Conservatism For Our Times (Routledge, 2017) by Joseph Scotchie Joe Scotchie’s recently published anthology Writing on the Southern Front: Authentic Conservatism For Our Times made me… »

  • Book Review
  • Douglas Southall Freeman
  • Featured
  • Joseph Scotchie
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Mark Royden Winchell
  • Nashville Agrarians
  • Paul Gottfried
  • Richard Weaver

I’ll Take My Stand

By Randall Ivey

A review of I’ll Take My Stand by Twelve Southerners (LSU, 2006). In this age where the homogenization of our culture is nearly complete, thanks largely to widespread media and rampant industrialism, I’ll Take My… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Nashville Agrarians
  • Randall Ivey

Choosing Southernness: Southern With an Italian Accent

By Mark G. Malvasi

Late in August 1965, a young boy not yet eight-years-old stood with his father on the field at Gettysburg near the spot where Pickett’s men formed in the woods. The boy’s father was not a… »

  • Mark Malvasi
  • Nashville Agrarians
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History

Pope Francis and the Southern Tradition

By Brion McClanahan

Recent attempts made by the left and the right to make Pope Francis one of “their” own has sparked considerable debate among the political class and their voices in the mainstream media.  Pope Francis’s speech before… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Fuller Callaway
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Nashville Agrarians
  • Pope Francis
  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Tradition
  • Wendell Berry
  • Yankees

Can the South Survive?

By Clyde Wilson

(I’ll Take My Stand 75th anniversary conference, Franklin, Tennessee) The Twelve Southerners have been justly praised for their powers of prophecy. In reading ITMS once more after several years, it struck me that their description… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • Nashville Agrarians

Fugitive Agrarians

By Thomas Landess

I’ll Take My Stand, the classic statement of Southern Agrarianism, was first published in 1930. Since that time, it has never been out of print. You have to ask yourself why people have continued to… »

  • Allen Tate
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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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