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War for Southern Independence

The South Was Right! (Again)

By Clyde Wilson

The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. New Edition for the 21st century.  Shotwell Publishing, 2020. In 1991 the Kennedy brothers first published The South Was Right!, a classic that can be considered a… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • South Was Right
  • Southern Tradition
  • Walter Donald Kennedy
  • 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

John Brown’s Body

By Neil Kumar

A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993) by Otto Scott. The Leftist political violence that has engulfed the disintegrating American nation for much of the past year… »

  • Abolitionists
  • John Brown
  • Neil Kumar
  • Northern Studies
  • War for Southern Independence

The False Cause Narrative

By Philip Leigh

While watching a seventy-minute interview with Professor Adam Domby about his book, The False Cause, I was surprised at the number of errors, biased interpretations and even endorsement of “extralegal” conduct by anti-statue mobs. The False Cause focuses on Civil… »

  • Northern Studies
  • Philip Leigh
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Yankees

A [r]epublican in Exile

By Karen Stokes

In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met Ambrose Dudley Mann, a native of Virginia who was the Assistant Secretary of State (and the first man to hold… »

  • Ambrose Dudley Mann
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Karent Stokes
  • Southern Culture
  • War for Southern Independence

It Began With A Lie

By Valerie Protopapas

“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Valerie Protopapas
  • War for Southern Independence

How Arizona Seceded From the Union

By Steve Lee

The United States acquired a vast area of the Southwest with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (May 30, 1848), which included all or part of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico,… »

  • Arizona
  • Confederate States of America
  • Secession
  • Steve Lee
  • War for Southern Independence

A Simple Explanation

By Valerie Protopapas

What separated the Jeffersonian understanding of government embraced by the South from the philosophy of Lincoln and the people of the North? For if Lincoln had believed as Jefferson, the war would not have happened.… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Secession
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Valerie Protopapas
  • War for Southern Independence

The Real Reason for Confederate Monuments

By Philip Leigh
  • Confederate Flag
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Philip Leigh
  • War for Southern Independence

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
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  • War for Southern Independence

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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
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  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
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