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Southern Politics

Pretenses

By Robert Peters

You might call it propaganda, state lies, fraud, illusions or delusions. I prefer pretenses which afford the peddler thereof and the hapless fool who buys into them just the degree of deniability so that they… »

  • Northern Studies
  • Republican Party
  • Robert Peters
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition
  • United States Constitution

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

The South in Retreat

By Carey Roberts

Editor’s Note: This lecture was delivered at our 2019 Summer School on the New South. Carey Roberts explores the relationship between the Old Whig faction in the South–e.g. Alexander H. Stephens–and the New Democrats who… »

  • Alexander H. Stephens
  • Carey Roberts
  • New South
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Whigs

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

A Fool and His Money are Soon Elected

By Brion McClanahan

Will Rogers had a quip for just about any situation, but he loved to talk politics. Rogers was born on a Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma. His father was a Confederate veteran and political leader in… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Southern Politics
  • Will Rogers

The Polls, Donald Trump, and Secession

By Boyd Cathey

Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each day some on-air talking head or online spinmeister reveals breathlessly increasingly bad results for President Trump and anyone who dares… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Donald Trump
  • Secession
  • Southern Politics

Blackstone’s Influence on American Political Philosophy

By Barry Clark

The question before us, ‘how did the writings of Blackstone influence American political philosophy, and what evidence for this influence is seen in Tocqueville’s observations of American political life?’ is perhaps best quantified with qualifiers… »

  • Barry Clark
  • Federalism
  • Southern Politics
  • United States Constitution
  • William Blackstone

Every Southerner Needs This Magazine

By Boyd Cathey

On various occasions I’ve made references to Chronicles Magazine and cited articles printed in it. Remarkably, Chronicles is the only print magazine of stature (it is also online) in America which has represented and aired traditionalist conservative viewpoints, in depth and… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Chronicles Magazine
  • Paul Gottfried
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Politics

Real Conservatism

By Won Kim

A review of The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994) by Eugene Genovese The notion of a Southern polit­ical tradition can be understood as conservative, complete, and consistent with its… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Book Review
  • Eugene Genovese
  • Featured
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Southern Conservatism
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition

The Place of Nathaniel Macon in Southern History

By William E. Dodd

Many who are well acquainted with Southern history are almost entirely unfamiliar with the historical character of Nathaniel Macon. He is often mentioned by the best of authors as a North Carolinian, as a Georgian,… »

  • John Randolph of Roanoke
  • Nathaniel Macon
  • Slavery
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  • William E. Dodd

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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
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  • 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
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  • 2013 Scholars Conference: Music and the Southern Tradition
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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
  • 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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