Abbeville Institute

Donald Davidson is remembered as a poet and a polemicist. He was a founding member of the Fugitive poets at Vanderbilt, a contributor to I’ll Take My Stand, and one of the most uncompromising voices of twentieth-century Southern Agrarianism. That reputation is accurate as far as it goes, but it leaves out something that ran through nearly the whole of...

The evening sun was flooding in through the two big windows that my feet were pointed towards as I lay on the couch for a nap. I must have fallen asleep around five o’ clock, shortly after getting home from work. I assume it was then since the sun was still high enough to not make closing the blinds necessary...

There were five wars for independence in the history of North America (i.e., Anglo America). The first was the American Revolutionary War, or War for American Independence (1775-1783). In that war, the United States of America won their independence from Great Britain. The second was the War of 1812 (1812-1815), also known as the Second War for Independence, because the...

A Review of Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse (LSU Press, 1998) edited by Richard Barksdale Harwell Kate Cumming was born in Scotland in 1835. She was very young when her family immigrated to Canada and then moved to the prosperous port of Mobile, Alabama, where she grew up. In April of 1862, she volunteered to join a group...

A review of From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition (Shotwell Publishing, 2026) by Clyde Wilson From Union to Empire, originally published in 2003 by The Foundation for American Education and more recently issued in a new edition by Shotwell Publishing is one of those rare books which does not disappoint the reader who is drawn by the...