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Philip Leigh

The Postwar Lee at Washington College

By Philip Leigh

Robert E. Lee’s tenure as President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) should be regarded as one of the most important events in American educational history, and it was for decades. He saved… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Washington and Lee University

Robert E. Lee and (Woke General) Please Like Me

By Philip Leigh

Ty Seidule’s mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters: mainstream media outlets, leftist dominated history departments, and neoconservative “intellectuals.” This says more about Seidule than his book. He just… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ty Seidule
  • War for Southern Independence

A Good Reason to Honor Robert E. Lee

By Philip Leigh

Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated how he maintained dignity in defeat while convincing many resentful Southerners to reconcile with their former enemies. At the end… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction
  • Robert E. Lee
  • War for Southern Independence

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

The Postbellum South as an Exploited Colony

By Philip Leigh

From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on “Who Owns America?” October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.

  • New South
  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction
  • Southern Economics
  • Who Owns America

The Postbellum South as An Exploited Colony

By Philip Leigh
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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
  • Philip Leigh

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

The Real Reason for Confederate Monuments

By Philip Leigh
  • Confederate Flag
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Philip Leigh
  • War for Southern Independence

They Were Not Traitors

By Philip Leigh

A typical calumny directed at Confederate soldiers is that they don’t merit commemoration because they were traitors. It is a lie for two reasons. First, the Confederate states had no intent to overthrow the government… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Secession
  • Southern History
  • Treason
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

Idiotic Idioms

By Philip Leigh

Identity Politics is changing our language in order to advance its agenda. One example is “people of color.” Hemingway would have convulsed at such a laborious construction. Does its nearly Global use today  suggest  that… »

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  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness
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