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Robert E. Lee: Educator and Conciliator
Robert E. Lee considered reconciliation and education to be his highest duties after the War. While many other Confederate leaders left the United States, Lee remained in Virginia and worked to heal the wounds of the War. He turned down political positions and refused to capitalize on his name, and instead accepted a position as President of Washington College to revive the struggling school's fortunes. As Philip Leigh explains, Lee should be remembered as one of the greatest Americans in history.
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The Postwar Lee at Washington College
Robert E. Lee's tenure as President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) should be regarded as one of the most important events in American educational history, and it was for decades. He saved the struggling school, recruited young men from around the South, and instituted the honor code, a set of principles still used by students at the school today. But woke academics have worked to undermine Lee's reputation, and as a result the school is considering removing Lee's name from the University. This would not only be foolish, but ahistorical as Philip Leigh explains in this short video.
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John C. Calhoun: American
No American is more vilified than John C. Calhoun. A recent biography has labeled him the American "heretic," and it has become fashionable to blame every political problem in American on this long deceased statesman. Is this true or fair? Calhoun was well respected during his lifetime and served in almost every important position in the United States government. He also had much to say about American politics and the Constitution. Every American on both the left and right could learn from Calhoun. -
Robert E. Lee and (Woke General) Please Like Me
Ty Seidule's mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters: mainstream media outlets, leftist dominated history departments, and neoconservative "intellectuals." This says more about Seidule than his book. He just wants to be loved. On the other hand, his book is a collection of half-truths and cherry picked propaganda designed to meet his "opinion" of Robert E. Lee, a word he often uses when asked about his positions on Lee and the South. This is predictable coming from a man who wrote the West Point Guide to Gender and Warfare. West Point graduate, General of the Army, and United States President Dwight Eisenhower called Lee one of the four greatest Americans in United States History. General Seidule thinks otherwise. As Phil Leigh explains in this video, we should listen to General Eisenhower, not the woke historian from West Point.
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Abbeville Institute Lectures
We cover a wide variety of topics regarding Southern history and how we view it today alongside modern ideas.
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Who Owns America Now? by John Devanny
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The Postbellum South as An Exploited Colony by Philip Leigh
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Agrarianism, Republicanism, and Laissez Faire by Joseph Stromberg
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Who Owns America? Populism, Political Economy, and Corporate Personality by Jack Trotter
From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.