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Northern Studies

The Yankee Quarantine of Southern Blacks

By Philip Leigh

Legendary financier J. P. Morgan once said: “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” His meaning is that our public explanation is a noble one whereas… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Northern Studies
  • Philip Leigh
  • Race
  • Slavery

Pretenses

By Robert Peters

You might call it propaganda, state lies, fraud, illusions or delusions. I prefer pretenses which afford the peddler thereof and the hapless fool who buys into them just the degree of deniability so that they… »

  • Northern Studies
  • Republican Party
  • Robert Peters
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition
  • United States Constitution

The New South

By Robert Lewis Dabney

Edited by Robert Hoyle. A Discourse delivered at the Annual Commencement of Hampden-Sydney College, June 15, 1882, before the Philanthropic and Union Literary Societies.[1] Young Gentlemen of the Philanthropic and Union Societies, and Ladies and… »

  • Agrarianism
  • New South
  • Northern Studies
  • Robert Hoyle
  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern History
  • Southern Tradition

John Brown’s Body

By Neil Kumar

A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993) by Otto Scott. The Leftist political violence that has engulfed the disintegrating American nation for much of the past year… »

  • Abolitionists
  • John Brown
  • Neil Kumar
  • Northern Studies
  • War for Southern Independence

The Grand Alliance, a.k.a. The Deep State

By Clyde Wilson

The pattern for modern American politics was set by Lincoln and his cronies in the 1850s—1870s, although it took an immense war against other Americans to make it stick.  The pattern involved making the federal… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Northern Studies
  • Republican Party

Slavery and Emancipation 101

By John Marquardt

The roots of the myth that slavery was primarily a white Southern institution were planted three decades prior to the War Between the States by the abolitionists in New York and New England.  This myth… »

  • Emancipation
  • John Marquardt
  • Northern Studies
  • Slavery
  • Southern History

The False Cause Narrative

By Philip Leigh

While watching a seventy-minute interview with Professor Adam Domby about his book, The False Cause, I was surprised at the number of errors, biased interpretations and even endorsement of “extralegal” conduct by anti-statue mobs. The False Cause focuses on Civil… »

  • Northern Studies
  • Philip Leigh
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Yankees

New England Slavers in Colonial America

By James (Jim) Pederson

Like any other economic exchange, the slave trade developed with a supplier, a consumer, and a trader or merchant that brought the two together. African kingdoms that had access to the western seaboard had a… »

  • James Pederson
  • Northern Studies
  • Slavery

California Secession…in 1858?

By Justin Pederson

Antebellum California secession is a little known topic, but the Southern portion of the State nearly broke free from Northern California in the years just before the outbreak of war in 1861. California gained statehood… »

  • California
  • Justin Pederson
  • Northern Studies
  • Secession
  • Yankees

Henry Miller’s Air-Conditioned Nightmare

By Mike Goodloe

Travel writing about the American South is a genre of its own.   One such observer was Henry Miller, who traveled through the South in 1941.  Miller was born in 1891 in New York City and… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Henry Miller
  • Mike Goodloe
  • Northern Studies
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

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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
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  • 2012 Scholars Conference: The War Between the States: Other Voices Other Views
  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
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  • 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
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  • 2004 Summer School: The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism: 1798-1861
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