Clyde Wilson on Lincoln's Project

Inventing a New Nation at Gettysburg (essay by Clyde Wilson) https://t.co/p9hcFEmgaC

— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) November 19, 2020

That retread will be better than this:

🎙️: On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

Allen C. Guelzo, Director of our Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, joins #MadisonsNotes to discuss the legacy of the Gettysburg Address and what Lincoln might say today.https://t.co/8VLb1IcH87

— James Madison Program (@MadisonProgram) November 19, 2020

Part 1 of an Interview with Dr. Clyde Wilson

An Interview with Clyde Wilson, Part I By Dissident Mama

Yes, Sir

The American Federation of Republics Oligarchy

Clyde Wilson, The Way We Are Now:

Want to understand who the real rulers are in our “American democracy”? It has little to do with elections or with the politicians on television. The real rulers may be identified as those who get the most benefit from the government and almost always get their way. (Or, to put it another way, the real rulers are those with enough money to buy Congresspersons.) Take the recent epidemic relief bill, passed unanimously by Congress and both parties: $2 billion to be dispersed for temporary relief to the people, most of whom will never recover from months of lost work. $8 billion for the Banksters, who allegedly are necessary for our prosperity and are Too Big to Jail. The 1% will get ever richer and have even more control over the wealth of American society. This has been “American democracy” since Lincoln. But there are no longer enough real citizens around to notice and most don’t care as long as they are reasonably prosperous. In hard times they turn to their real rulers for relief.

Happy Independence Day

American Liberty Reconsidered by Lee Cheek

Recovering the Declaration of Independence by Lee Cheek and Sean Busick

Patriotism: A Necessary Sentiment by Clyde Wilson

Boyd Cathey on Jefferson Davis

Reckonin': Remembering Jefferson Davis, His Faith, and His Defense of the Secession by Boyd Cathey

Reckonin' is the new blog of Clyde Wilson.

American Culture: Virginia or Massachusetts? by Clyde Wilson

Clyde Wilson on M.E. Bradford

M. E. Bradford, Agrarian Aquinas

Celtic? Or American?

Is the South Celtic? by Clyde Wilson

Hamilton Fans Will Be Triggered

The Abbeville Institute: How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Clyde Wilson

A review of How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan, Regnery History, 2017. A thinking American must choose between Hamilton and Jefferson, whose contrary visions of the future were contested in the first… »

Guns of Honor

The New Guns of Honor? by Clyde Wilson - same complaints at Amazon

Old Voices and New

New...

New South Voices of the Southern Tradition by Brion McClanahan

Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. As scholars dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition, we are most often drawn to the antebellum South and the early federal… »


And old...
Robert Lewis Dabney: A Prophet for Our Own Times by Boyd Cathey

A number of years ago I became interested in the writings of the great Southern author and philosopher Robert Lewis Dabney (d. 1898). Dabney, if he is much known at all these days, is famous… »


You Are Deplorable by Clyde Wilson

Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. You are deplorable. It is worse than that. If you are Southern or interested in the South you are the most deplorable of all the deplorables. There… »

Related:
Go Figure: Progressive Academics Misinterpret Southern Identity by Michael Potts

A Review of The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of its People, by Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press,… »

Two Books on Nathan Bedford Forrest

Bust Hell Wide Open by James Rutledge Roesch

A review of Bust Hell Wide Open: the Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Regnery History, 2016. Writing a biography about Nathan Bedford Forrest – a man recognized by no less… »


A Rebel Born by Clyde Wilson

Foreword for A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General, American Legend, by Lochlainn Seabrook, Sea Raven Press, 2010. There is a story that a year or two after the great American… »

Two on John C. Calhoun

A Deep Devotion to the Constitution by Brion McClanahan
According to the modern historical establishment, John C. Calhoun is the ultimate American villain. These esteemed historians think lofty assessments from previous decades failed to account for his glaring inconsistencies in regard to federal power,… »


Coit’s Calhoun by Clyde Wilson
Want to learn about one of the greatest statesmen that the United States has ever produced? Then get hold of John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Coit. When this beautifully-written book received the Pulitzer… »


Related:
Heil to the Chief by James McClellan
A Review of: The American Presidency: An Intellectual History by Forrest McDonald Kansas, 1994. Since the surrender at Appomattox, the South has been virtually excluded from two of the three branches of the national government.… »

The Home of the Yankees

New England Against America by Clyde Wilson

Related:

A Pilgrim’s Progress: Nathaniel Hawthorne Reconsidered by Michael Jordan

The Sense of “Southernizing” by John Shelton Reed

Not Many Would Be Sorry to See California Leave

Let the Bear Flag Go by Brion McClanahan

And...
The American President: From Cincinnatus to Caesar by Clyde Wilson

Abbeville Institute: The Continuing Relevance of Calhoun’s Wisdom by Clyde Wilson

I am always glad to talk about my favourite subject–-John C. Calhoun. I think it will become apparent that what he has to say has some relevance to our topic “Building Communities of Resistance”—and perhaps… »

Dr. Wilson on Calexit

Calexit: California, Adios!

Southron Pride

The Abbeville Institute: Podcast #55


Robert E. Lee: American Hero by Brion McClanahan
Recovering Southern History by Clyde Wilson
Stonewall: By Name and Nature by Holmes Alexander

From the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School

When the South Was America 1607-1861 by Donald Livingston

American Culture: Virginia or Massachusetts? by Clyde Wilson

The South and the Renewal of America by Carey Roberts

Waving the Secede Flag–How to Regain State’s Rights by Jeffrey Addicott

Related:
The Compact Theory of the Constitution by Kent Masterson Brown

From the Abbeville Institute

Richard Taylor by Dabney H. Maury
Harvard Confederates by Clyde Wilson
Death of Kin by Randall Ivey