Defeated political figures often hope that history will redeem their cause. The Confederacy’s motto, Deo vindici, means “God will vindicate.� For a while, it seemed, He did. The conquered South honored men such as Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall� Jackson. Perhaps the man who did the most to enshrine their memory was Douglas Southall... Read More

In 2019, the New York Times Magazine published a series of articles with the theme that the true date of America’s birth was 1619. The anchor piece of this 1619 Project series, called “The Idea of America,� asserts that the arrival of African slaves to the Virginia Bay Colony was the start of everything that... Read More

Lest we forget, it has been nineteen years since the film “Gods and Generals� was released to screens across the United States—to be exact, on February 21, 2003—almost ten years after the release of the blockbuster film, “Gettysburg.� “Gods and Generals� was based on the historical novel by Jeff Shaara, while “Gettysburg� was based on... Read More

Some eminent notables have claimed that the American Civil War had substantial roots in literature. Mark Twain, for example, said of Sir Walter Scott that he was “in great measure responsible for the war.� That proposition is debatable, of course. This argument hinges on how much the widespread influence of his romanticized chivalric prose bolstered... Read More

Bruce Levine, Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice, Simon and Schuster,2021, 309 pp., $28.00. Countless men who were American heroes are now villains because of their racial views: Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Taney, Wilson, Roosevelt, even Lincoln. I can think of no white man who was once reviled for racial views but is... Read More

No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed broadly the “American conservative movement� would be complete without an examination of events that have transpired over the past fifty or so years and the pivotal role of the powerful intellectual current known as neoconservatism. From the 1950s into the 1980s... Read More

German governments have used two strategies to crush dissent in the last century. The Third Reich used Gleichschaltung, or “coordination,� with the state pushing public and private organizations into line with National Socialism. Communist East Germany used Zersetzung, “decomposition,� with its Stasi secret police wrecking the personal lives, careers, and reputations of dissidents. White advocates... Read More

Defense attorney and constitutional scholar John Remington Graham maintains that despite being two separate countries with different cultures and legislative interests, North and South had been held together by statesmen effecting compromises. Before differing interests could break them apart, hatred had to be fomented between North and South. He states his position clearly: “The American... Read More

The current wrath directed against anything or anyone having had anything to do with slavery or even racial discrimination includes destroying historical memorials and monuments as well as changing names that have stood for more than a century. Much of it has been focused on white nominally Christian males, mostly of Anglo-Saxon stock, understandable as... Read More