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Virginia

The Big Monochrome Picture

By John Marquardt

The principal character in Joyce Maynard’s 1992 novel “To Die For” said that if you look too closely at a black and white photograph, all you see are a series of black dots on a… »

  • 1619 Project
  • Johm Marquardt
  • Slavery
  • Thaddeus Wilber Tate
  • Virginia

Standing Like a Stone Wall

By Paul H. Yarbrough

The City Council of Lexington, Virginia has renamed the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. The new name is Oak Grove Cemetery. The reasons stated were the usual ones. Jackson was a racist who fought for slavery. I… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Chuck Smith
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Political Correctness
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Virginia
  • Yankees

Southern Poets and Poems, Part II

By Clyde Wilson

JOHN COTTON (fl. 1660s – 1720s) was an early settler of Virginia, never to be confused with the awful Cotton family of Massachusetts. In 1814 an anonymous poem about Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia (1676) was… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • John Cotton
  • Nathaniel Bacon
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Poetry
  • Virginia

Reconsidering William Henry Harrison

By Brion McClanahan

Who was the greatest president in American history? Ask this question to a group of people who are cynical of the imperial presidency and at least one person will answer William Henry Harrison, the man… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution
  • Virginia
  • William Henry Harrison

Secession and Its Discontents

By John Devanny

The American story is a story of secession, or better still secessions.  The first permanent settlements of Europeans in North America were the result of a series of secessions from primarily the British Isles.  Religious… »

  • John Devanny
  • Ralph Northam
  • Secession
  • Virginia
  • West Virginia

Battle for the Old Dominion

By Brion McClanahan

With the recent triumph of the Democrat Party in the 2019 statewide elections in Virginia, it will only be a matter of time before an effort is made to rewrite Virginia law concerning “memorials for… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Kent Masterson Brown
  • Political Correctness
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Virginia

Driving Through Virginia, Part III

By Brett Moffatt

The Colonial Parkway connects Jamestowne and WIlliamsburg with the third leg of Virginia’s HIstoric Triangle-Yorktown.  The colonial period of history had its beginning at Jamestown, its maturity at Williamsburg, and approached its end at Yorktown.… »

  • American War for Independence
  • Brett Moffatt
  • Colonial America
  • Southern History
  • Virginia

Driving Through Virginia’s Historic Triangle, Part II

By Brett Moffatt

George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson trod the roads of this area as the colony of Virginia grew. George Mason, James Madison and Richard Henry Lee sat in the public houses debating political events.… »

  • Brett Moffatt
  • George Washington
  • Southern History
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Virginia
  • Williamsburg

Driving Through Virginia’s Historic Triangle

By Brett Moffatt

Virginia’s  Historic Triangle: Jamestowne, Williamsburg and Yorktowne encompasses the first permanent English settlement in America, the most important colonial capital, and the last major military engagement of the American War for Independence.  John Smith, Pocahontas,… »

  • Brett Moffatt
  • Jamestown
  • Southern History
  • Virginia
  • Williamsburg

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

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