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Southern Tradition

Robert E. Lee: The Believer

By Earl Starbuck

In the Year of Our Lord 2021, it is fashionable for American Christians to despise the antebellum South. Many Christian leaders, Evangelical and otherwise, have defended or even applauded the destruction of Confederate statues by… »

  • Earl Starbuck
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern History
  • Southern Religion
  • Southern Tradition

Abundant Acreage Available

By Anne Wilson Smith

Like many traditional-minded people of this era, I have become disenchanted with products of the modern movie industry which are mostly either filth, silliness, or formulaic pablum. To my fortunate surprise, I recently stumbled upon… »

  • Abundant Acreage Available
  • Agrariansim
  • Anne Wilson Smith
  • Film Review
  • Southern Film
  • Southern Tradition

Remembering John C. Calhoun

By Brad Pond

The spring of 1850 is an ominous perpetrator. Notwithstanding the crisis our country faced during those trying years leading to the so-called compromise of 1850, March 31st marks the death of one of our most… »

  • Brad Pond
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Southern Tradition

Woke Capitalism Guns for the South

By Casey Chalk

Major League Baseball on 2 April announced that both the All Star Game and the draft would no longer be held in Atlanta as retribution for Georgia’s recent election laws. “I have decided that the… »

  • Capitalism
  • Casey Chalk
  • Major League Baseball
  • Southern Tradition

Gomer Pyle and the Music of Southern Poverty

By Tom Daniel

Sometimes, you need to go halfway around the world in order to make a point, especially if the point to be made is not a simple one.  This is one of those times.  Also, it’s… »

  • Andy Griffith
  • Jim Nabors
  • Southern Music
  • Southern Tradition
  • Tom Daniel

Beginning with History

By Clyde Wilson

Any fool can write history, and many do.  Please do not assume that I mean by this statement to vaunt the “expert” and slight the amateur.  In writing history the amateur is sometimes gifted, and… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Tradition

Southern Reflections on Being Neighborly

By Tom Hervey

A white house sits on the outskirts of a small town in upstate South Carolina. It is modest in both size and appearance, and rather old, and in front of it next to the highway… »

  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Tom Hervey

I Listen

By Averyell A. Kessler

I read this piece to the Jackson Writers Guild a year ago. Since then, we’ve not been able to meet. Here it is again. A southern writer can collect more stories from a back-porch conversation… »

  • Averyell A. Kessler
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Tradition

Honoring Calhoun

By Henry Cabot Lodge

Editor’s Note: This speech was delivered before the Senate on March 12, 1910, at the dedication of John C. Calhoun’s statue in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol. Address of Mr. (Henry Cabot) Lodge,… »

  • Henry Cabot Lodge
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Northern Studies
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

The Termite Infestation of American History

By James Rutledge Roesch

As part of its campaign to pander to the important and urgent needs of African-Americans with extremely divisive yet ultimately performative identity politics,[1] the Biden-Harris administration has announced that it will resume Barack Obama’s decision… »

  • 1619 Project
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Jackson
  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • John C. Calhoun
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