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Was the War About Slavery?
The Abbeville Institute has partnered with the social media account “Jefferson Davis” to make short, informative, primary source driven videos about the War and secession. The first video in the partnership is published below. If you enjoy it, please share it.
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Texas’ Declaration of Independence
On March 2, 1836, Texas formally proclaimed its independence from Mexico with a declaration of independence at a convention at Washington-on-the Brazos. The event leading to that declaration was a revolution of Mexicans against the increasingly tyrannical governing of Antonio…
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A Principled Defense of Confederate Memorials
The recent decapitation of a World War II memorial in Virginia provoked widespread outrage. Even CNN, the notorious liberal rag, disapproved, reporting that, The Battle of Iwo Jima monument in Quantico, Virginia, has suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage after a…
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The South as a Christian Civilization
Let me begin by quoting from a book entitled, The Attitude of the Northern Clergy Toward the South, published in 1942. Its author, Chester F. Dunham, wrote: Southern Christianity, or the theological position of Southern Christian Churches, was thoroughly orthodox. Religion in…
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The Hand on the Throttle
Southern railroad songs are often treated as a musical celebration of trains: their speed, their whistles, and the power of a locomotive moving through the landscape. The cultural connection is in the songs and in the life the songs come from. The South had more single-track,…
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Good Southern Reading
Originally published at Reckonin.com Here are some good books published in fairly recent years that you may not have encountered. Perrin Lovett, The Substitute and Aurelius and Other Tom Ironsides Adventures. I am tempted to call Tom Ironsides a Southern James Bond, but he is a…
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Our Heritage is Our Haven
We hear it from the haters of our heritage all the time. Old times in Dixie must be forgotten and never remembered. We’re not in sync with modern America, or to a large extent with the modern American South. Yet we must ask why this modernity deserves our allegiance. It is…
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The Poles Who Quietly Helped Build the American South
Ask most Americans who built the South and the answer drifts toward the British Isles. English planters claimed the Tidewater, Scots-Irish settlers cleared the backcountry, and Irish laborers dug the canals. Tucked inside that familiar story runs a quieter thread spun by people…
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The Devil’s Box
Do you have a piano in your church? An organ? A guitar? A bass and drum set? A pedal steel? I’ve visited a lot of churches all over the South covering more denominations than I can count, but I have never once encountered a fiddle in any of them. The fiddle has probably acquired…
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The Border States in The War and Reconstruction
Research and Writing Needed for Southern History, Part 3. Mainstream history tells us that the Border Southern States were “Unionist” during the great conflict. It is not true in the sense that is meant. The main factor in the matter was coercion by the U.S. Army. After the…
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Timeless
A review of Time Will Tell: Collected Poems (The University Press of SHSU, 2025) by David Middleton The deaths of Fred Chappell in 2024 and of Wendell Berry this past summer have left a gaping hole not only in Southern letters but in American prosody as a whole. Their poems,…
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The Southern Tradition, Techno-Totalitarianism, and Our Temu-Faustian Bargain
“My wish is simply to live my life as fully as I can…And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.” —Wendell Berry, What Are People For? (1990) “It is easy for me to imagine that the…