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Radical Republicans

The Radical Republicans: The Antifa of 1865

By Ilana Mercer

“Anybody who would trash Lee and laud Lincoln is either stupid as a post or just plain evil,” said a sage reader. This applies in spades to anyone who would laud the Radical Republicans of… »

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Sovereignty

By John Taylor of Caroline

The reader has perceived that the question concerning state powers, is condensed in the word sovereignty, and therefore any new ideas upon the subject, if to be found, would not be unedifying. A will to… »

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Thomas F. Bayard and the Defense of the South, 1866-1876

By Edward Spencer

This article is reprinted from Edward Spencer, An Outline Public Life and Services Of Thomas F. Bayard, Senator of the United States from the State Of Delaware,  1869-1880. With Extractions from His Speeches and the Debates Of Congress (1880) and is published… »

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The Republican Charade: Lincoln and His Party

By Clyde Wilson

“To parties of special interests, all political questions appear exclusively as problems of political tactics.” I want to take a look at this strange institution we know as the Republican party and the course of… »

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  • Clyde Wilson
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Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.

By Brion McClanahan

Yesterday (October 29) was Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.’s birthday, the next to last member of the great Bayard congressional dynasty from Delaware. His great-grandfather, Richard Bassett, signed the Constitution. His grandfather, James A. Bayard, the… »

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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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