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War Crimes

Crimes Against Humanity

By Valerie Protopapas

It is time to consider the crimes committed against Southern prisoners of war by their federal captors. In 1903, Adj. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth estimated that more than 30,000 Union and 26,000 Confederates died in… »

  • Andersonville
  • Camp Douglas
  • Elmira Prison
  • Fort Delaware
  • Northern Studies
  • Valerie Protopapas
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

Total War in Georgia

By Karen Stokes

In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the war in America, paid a visit to Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of the Confederacy. There he met with some… »

  • Karen Stokes
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

Don’t Watch This Film

By Clyde Wilson

“The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes.  2020. I have written a great deal on the Abbeville Institute site in the past  on the portrayal of the South in films. I… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Film
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

A Night to Remember

By Karen Stokes

The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack and destruction of Columbia, South Carolina. On February 17, 1865, the city surrendered to the besieging army of General William… »

  • Karen Stokes
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William T. Sherman

The Last “Insurrection” According to the Political Establishment

By Thomas DiLorenzo

The Washington establishment, led by a senile 78-year-old man who can barely speak in complete sentences and seems permanently fighting mad, is hell- bent on labeling virtually all Americans who voted for President Trump –Republicans,… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Karen Stokes
  • Tom Dilorenzo
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

The Great Lie and the Real Controversy

By James Everett Kibler

The following address was delivered as part of a symposium at the 150th anniversary of the burning of Winnsboro, S.C., in February 2015, sponsored by the Winnsboro Historical Society. It is published here for the… »

  • Columbia South Carolina
  • James Kibler
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William T. Sherman
  • Yankees

The Real Legends and Lies of the “Civil War”

By Clyde Wilson

I caught a snatch of news the other day that, even with all that is happening in our time, stunned me. It seems that Hollywood is gearing up its machinery to produce entertainment about “Confederate… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Political Correctness
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

Violence Breeds Violence

By Norman Black

Estimates of the number of South Vietnamese civilian casualties during the U.S. war in Vietnam vary. A U.S. Dept. of Defense estimate put the numbers at 1.2 million, including 195,000 killed.  In 1975, a U.S.… »

  • Missouri
  • Norman Black
  • Secession
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

Lincoln v. Trump

By J.L. Bennett

Not that long ago, it seems, Congressional Democrats were calling the Constitution an outdated impediment to “smart,” progressive government, but lately they are professing their high regard for the founding document and its framers.  “Solemn”… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Donald Trump
  • Impeachment
  • Joyce Bennett
  • Secession
  • United States Constitution
  • War Crimes

How Yankees Fostered Southern Disease

By Vann Boseman

In August of 1862, two years before his infamous ‘March to the Sea’, General William T. Sherman declared, “Salt is eminently contraband.” The Southern leaders’ positioning of the South’s economy as dependent on cash crops… »

  • Reconstruction
  • Vann Boseman
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William T. Sherman

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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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