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Southern Culture

VMI Test Case for the Country

By Forrest L. Marion

In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) removed its statue of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson from its prominent position at the nation’s oldest state-supported four-year military… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Forrest Marion
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Stonewall Jackson

Meditations on a Couple of Old Postcards

By Cliff Page

I saw a pile of household goods on the side of the road a couple of days ago, as I was picking up a friend to take him to the store. It was a blighting… »

  • Cliff Page
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Art
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

The Blundering Generations and the Crisis of Legitimacy

By John Devanny

Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in the seventeenth century is generously populated with examples: The English Civil War, Le Fronde I and II, The Thirty Years… »

  • John Devanny
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Yankees

A Grandfather’s Love

By Travis Holt

Most all of us who were fortunate enough to know our Grandfather has experienced his love. It may be expressed in many ways, whether it be a spoken ‘Well done’ or an ‘I love you’,… »

  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Travis Holt

Identity Politics and the Southern Gentleman

By Casey Chalk

Earlier this year, shortly after the sad and unfortunate death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, I witnessed an especially peculiar example of one of the many thousands (perhaps millions?) of debates on social media regarding… »

  • Casey Chalk
  • Gone With The Wind
  • Margaret Mitchell
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Gentleman
  • Southern Tradition

Less Than Five Miles

By Travis Holt

The life of a man is something that runs deep in all history. Before the war on gender roles, man and woman had a clear, defined boundary that all recognized and respected. Man was the… »

  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Travis Holt

The Southern Remnant

By James Rutledge Roesch

‘There has always been this fallacious belief: “It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.” Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.’ – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn… »

  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

A [r]epublican in Exile

By Karen Stokes

In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met Ambrose Dudley Mann, a native of Virginia who was the Assistant Secretary of State (and the first man to hold… »

  • Ambrose Dudley Mann
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Karent Stokes
  • Southern Culture
  • War for Southern Independence

The Power of the Powerless

By James Rutledge Roesch

‘The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation… »

  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition

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

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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
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  • 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
  • 2011 Scholars Conference: The South and America’s Wars
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  • 2010 Scholars Conference: State Nullification Secession and the Human Scale of Political Order
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