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South Carolina

The Knight of Melrose

By H.V. Traywick, Jr.

Ah! My Lord Arthur, whither shall I go?Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes?For now I see the true old times are dead…        Tennyson, from Idylls of the King My grandfather loved Tennessee Walking… »

  • H.V. Traywick
  • South Carolina
  • Southern History
  • Southern Literature
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  • Virginia

The Calhoun Monument Deserved Legal and Historical Protection

By Stewart O. Jones

As some business owners and residents on King Street described it, “Charleston was raped” on the night of May 30, 2020, as mobs looted and burned the Holy City, turning so-called “peaceful protests” violent. Following… »

  • John C. Calhoun
  • South Carolina
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Stewart Jones

The Real Thing

By Clyde Wilson

A Review of The Everlasting Circle: Letters of the Haskell Family of Abbeville, South Carolina, 1861—1865. (Mercer University Press, 2019) Edited by Karen Stokes. Participants in the Old South and the Confederacy were conscientious in… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Haskell
  • Karen Stokes
  • South Carolina
  • War for Southern Independence

The South Carolina Federalists

By Ulrich B. Phillips

Original material for Southern history has been so scarce at the centres where American historiographers have worked, that the general writers have had to substitute conjecture for understanding in many cases when attempting to interpret… »

  • South Carolina
  • Southern Federalism
  • Southern Politics
  • Ulrich B. Phillips
  • United States Constitution

The South Carolina Doctrine

By Robert Y. Hayne

Sir, South Carolina has not gone one step further than Mr. Jefferson himself was disposed to go in relation to the present subject of our present complaints; not a step further than the statesmen from… »

  • Daniel Webster
  • Nullification
  • Robert Y. Hayne
  • South Carolina
  • Southern History
  • United States Constitution

Robert B. Rhett: Liberty Protected by Law

By James Rutledge Roesch

“The one great principle, which produced our secession from the United States – was constitutional liberty – liberty protected by law. For this, we have fought; for this, our people have died. To preserve and… »

  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • Nullification
  • Robert Barnwell Rhett
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • South Carolina
  • Southern History
  • Tariff
  • War for Southern Independence

Promoting Christian Sabbath or Lord’s Day Observance in South Carolina, 1827-1837

By Forrest L. Marion

In the eighteenth century, each of the British North American colonies that later formed the United States of America had statutes that regulated the observance of the Christian Sabbath, or the Lord’s day. The two… »

  • Forrest Marion
  • Nullification
  • Slavery
  • South Carolina
  • Southern Religion

South Carolina’s “Long Train of Abuses”

By Becky Calcutt

Just as we have always been told that America was founded by Pilgrims in search of religious freedom, we have also been told that Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence was based on… »

  • American War for Independence
  • Becky Calcutt
  • Declaration of Independence
  • South Carolina
  • Southern History
  • Thomas Jefferson

February 1865: The Invasion Continues

By Karen Stokes

On February 5, 1865, the last of General Sherman’s troops crossed the Savannah River into South Carolina. That same day, soldiers of the 14th Corps burned the village of Robertville. Determined to punish the “original… »

  • Karen Stokes
  • South Carolina
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

The “Hard Hand of War”

By Kirkpatrick Sale

The kind of military onslaught that Union Gen. William Sherman unleashed on the South, beginning with his infamous conquest of Atlanta and subsequent “March to the Sea,” followed by his capture of Savannah 150 years… »

  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • South Carolina
  • Total War
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William T. Sherman

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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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