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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
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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
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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

California Secession…in 1858?

By Justin Pederson

Antebellum California secession is a little known topic, but the Southern portion of the State nearly broke free from Northern California in the years just before the outbreak of war in 1861. California gained statehood… »

  • California
  • Justin Pederson
  • Northern Studies
  • Secession
  • Yankees

Sampson County and the Defense of Western Civilization

By Boyd Cathey

Sampson County is a large, mostly rural county in southeastern North Carolina. Like most non-metropolitan areas of the state, it tends to be conservative, in fact, a long-time bastion of the modern Republican Party in… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Political Correctness
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  • Yankees

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

Cancel Culture Comes South

By Boyd Cathey

These violent times in which we live are in some ways unparalleled. For Southerners we have seen monuments memorializing and honoring our past heroes and history—monuments and symbols which have stood for a century—torn down… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Cancel Culture
  • Communism
  • Jessica Krug
  • Northern Studies
  • Yankees

The Kwanzaafication of America

By Jason Morgan

Kwanzaa is an invented tradition. Billed as a kind of “black Christmas”—you can even buy Kwanzaa greeting cards at the store and mail them with Kwanzaa stamps—the odd holiday was created out of spite by… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Jason Morgan
  • Northern Studies
  • Political Correctness
  • Yankees

Cancel Culture Comes to Wake Forest, North Carolina

By Boyd Cathey

I have written previously about the very real dangers of what is called “cancel culture.” Indeed, what we have—what we see and experience today in the United States—is a massive attempt, increasingly successful, to not… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Cancel Culture
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Political Correctness
  • Yankees

Idiotic Idioms

By Philip Leigh

Identity Politics is changing our language in order to advance its agenda. One example is “people of color.” Hemingway would have convulsed at such a laborious construction. Does its nearly Global use today  suggest  that… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness
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