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Southern Founders

Was Secession Treason?

By Earl Starbuck

Recently an acquaintance of mine remarked that the Confederate statue in her hometown should be removed from its present place of honour and relocated to the Confederate cemetery which is presently (and sadly) in a… »

  • Earl Starbuck
  • Secession
  • Southern Founders
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Treason
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

The Myth of Tom and Sally

By H.L. Dowless

In 1993 the Washington Post published an article on research being conducted by an accomplished Richmond lawyer named Robert Cooley. According to this article, among many additional details in regard to the subject, Cooley had… »

  • H.L. Dowless
  • Political Correctness
  • Sally Hemings
  • Southern Founders
  • Thomas Jefferson

Make America States Again

By Joe Wolverton

I am honored to speak at the graduation from high school of these young men and women who were once my students and who are now my friends. We’ve grown so close, in fact, I’ve… »

  • Federalism
  • James Madison
  • Joe Wolverton
  • Patrick Henry
  • Southern Founders

A Jeffersonian Leader: William Branch Giles

By D.A. Anderson

But Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge is a worshipper of Hamilton, whom Giles hated, and an exponent of broad con­struction, which Giles bitterly fought.

  • D.A. Anderson
  • James Madison
  • Southern Founders
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Virginia
  • William Branch Giles

The Inescapable Anti-Americanism of the Left

By Jack Kerwick

It’s telling indeed that while everyone, irrespectively of political partisanship, can’t refer to “racism” enough, few people, if any, want to spend any time at all talking about “anti-Americanism.” The remotely curious should want to… »

  • Jack Kerwick
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Founders
  • War for Southern Independence

The True Heirs of the Founding Fathers’ Vision

By Michael Potts

A Review of Beyond Slavery: The Northern Romantic Nationalist Origins of America’s Civil War (Shotwell Publishing, 2019) by Walter Kirk Wood In the post-War between the States mythology supported by the victors, the Antebellum South… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Michael Potts
  • Southern Founders
  • W. Kirk Wood

Steady Hand at the Wheel

By M.E. Bradford

Thomas Johnson was born in Calvert County, Maryland, on his father’s lands near the mouth of St. Leonard’s Creek. He was the son of Thomas and Dorcas Sedgwick Johnson and the grandson of Thomas Johnson,… »

  • M.E. Bradford
  • Southern Founders
  • Thomas Johnson
  • United States Constitution

What if We Listened to the Southern Founders?

By Brion McClanahan

Mel Bradford’s outstanding tome A Better Guide Than Reason lifted that phrase from a speech John Dickinson made during the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. Dickinson worried that the delegates to what we now call the… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Confederate States Constitution
  • Federalism
  • Southern Founders
  • United States Constitution

The Legacy of Anti-Federalism

By James McClellan

A review of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 by Saul Cornell (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). The Anti-Federalists who opposed ratification of the Constitution have not fared well among… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • James McClellan
  • Southern Founders
  • United States Constitution

The Americanization of James Iredell

By M.E. Bradford

James Iredell was born at Lewes, Sussex County, England. He was the eldest of the five sons of Francis Iredell, a Bristol merchant, and Margaret McCulloh Iredell, originally of Dublin. Young James came to the… »

  • James Iredell
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Southern Founders

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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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