# southern culture (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover southern culture. Page: Feed: --- ## [Whose Portrait on Your Wall?](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/whose-portrait-on-your-wall/) _2026-08-27 · Matthew Conard · Abbeville Institute_ I’m wearing a shirt with Francis Marion displayed proudly on the back. I have portraits of our region and nation’s folklore and heroes hanging on my walls. I have lapel pins of the same. Other shirts have their quotes on them. Without a concerted effort in doing so, I accumulated images and the words of our region’s mythos. I do... ## [Poplar Forest: Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Play-toy](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/poplar-forest-thomas-jeffersons-architectural-play-toy/) _2026-08-26 · M. Andrew Holowchak · Abbeville Institute_ Granddaughter Ellen Randolph Coolidge writes to early biographer Henry S. Randall in 1856, in the latter’s The Life of Thomas Jefferson, of Poplar Forest: The house at Poplar Forest was very pretty and pleasant. It was of brick, one story in front, and, owing to the falling of the ground, two in the rear. It was an exact octagon, with... ## [Jefferson Davis As Master of Brierfield](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/jefferson-davis-as-master-of-brierfield/) _2026-08-25 · Ryan Walters · Abbeville Institute_ Some months ago, I was busy defending Jefferson Davis on X, which we all know is filled with the most knowledgeable historians the country has to offer, when one extremist proceeded to tell me that Davis raped and lynched blacks. When asked for evidence of such rubbish, I was truly shocked and astounded that he could provide none. Sarcasm aside,... ## [Sacred Steel and Southern Rock](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/sacred-steel-and-southern-rock/) _2026-08-24 · Tom Daniel · Abbeville Institute_ I came to Sacred Steel late, and I came to it by accident. I’d been going back through my list of American musical traditions that are actually Southern, checking for anything I’d left out, and Sacred Steel was one of the names that turned up as a gap. I didn’t know the tradition at all going in, so I did... ## [They Myth of the Righteous Cause](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/they-myth-of-the-righteous-cause/) _2026-08-21 · H.V. Traywick, Jr. · Abbeville Institute_ History is the propaganda of the victorious. – Voltaire The ubiquitous claim that the so-called “Civil War” (which it was not), was “about” slavery (which it was not), and the “righteous” North went to war against the “traitorous” South to free the slaves (which it did not) is the most bald-faced lie of American history, and, as Thomas Carlyle stated... ## [Carpetbaggers Seeks to Help Mississippi Deal with the Past](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/carpetbaggers-seeks-to-help-mississippi-deal-with-the-past/) _2026-08-20 · Ryan Walters · Abbeville Institute_ “A meddling Yankee is God’s worst creation; he cannot run his own affairs correctly, but is constantly interfering in the affairs of others, and he is always ready to repent of everyone’s sins, but his own.”\[1\] So opined a North Carolina newspaper in 1854, a quote also attributed to Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill. And yet, 172 years later, Southerners... ## [Stop with the Drive By History](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/stop-with-the-drive-by-history/) _2026-08-19 · Mindy Esposito · Abbeville Institute_ Originally published at Ms. Esposito’s Substack. At best, you were not told the whole story. At worst, you were deliberately lied to. Either way, you have it wrong. Nashville, Tennessee For more than a century and a half, Americans have been trained to repeat one sentence. One slogan. One simplified conclusion. “The war was only about slavery.” Say it enough... ## [Dixie in Decay](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/dixie-in-decay/) _2026-08-18 · Elias Ryan · Abbeville Institute_ The following is an abridged summary of the first three chapters of Dixie in Decay (and How to Heal Her) by Elias John Ryan Dixie is in decay. Our tradition of self governance is being flattened by an overreaching federal government. A once vibrant culture is being overridden by technology and mass immigration. Our economy is being corrupted by crony... ## [B.F. White and the Sacred Harp](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/b-f-white-and-the-sacred-harp/) _2026-08-17 · Tom Daniel · Abbeville Institute_ History tends to remember songs, and is considerably less interested in the people who made sure there was somewhere to sing them. Benjamin Franklin White is one of those people. Born in Union County, South Carolina, in 1800, he spent the better part of his adult life in Hamilton, Georgia, where he taught singing schools, compiled tunebooks, presided over conventions,... ## [Yankee Way of War](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/yankee-way-of-war/) _2026-08-14 · Jason Morgan · Abbeville Institute_ About this time every year, cruise ship historians like to trot out articles justifying the mass slaughter of innocents in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America had no choice but to drop the atom bombs, the basic argument goes. Mainstream media coverage in Japan tends to leave the subject, “America,” out altogether. It was war in the abstract that is to blame,... ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/TaT3GerNlUZ2) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [If Jefferson’s Paternity of Sally’s Kids Is So Very Well Supported by Evidence, Why Won’t the Pro-Paternity People Debate the Issue?](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/if-jeffersons-paternity-of-sallys-kids-is-so-very-well-supported-by-evidence-why-wont-the-pro-paternity-people-debate-the-issue/) _2026-08-13 · M. Andrew Holowchak · Abbeville Institute_ Some two months ago, I asked historian Courtney Crowley, who has become a member of our team at “Thomas Jefferson Lives” (aka, The Real Thomas Jefferson), if she could email four persons in the “Onufian Family”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Andrew Burstein, Kevin Gutzman, and of course “dude” himself, Peter Onuf—and ask whether any would participate in a debate on Jefferson’s avowed paternity.... ## [Inheriting Gold](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/inheriting-gold/) _2026-08-12 · Harvey Lee Nix · Abbeville Institute_ Many years ago, I asked myself, “Who am I” then “what do I know about myself?” That turned into exploration about “who I am,” which in turn, evolved into “where do I come from” and finally “who did I come from?” I think today people are caught up so much on the first question, that the development of the idea... ## [Moses Waddel: The Teacher of the South](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/moses-waddel-the-teacher-of-the-south/) _2026-08-11 · Walt Garlington · Abbeville Institute_ If anyone in Dixie is worthy of the title ‘Teacher of the South’, it is Reverend Moses Waddel. A summary of the major Southern figures who attended the academy he established at Willington, South Carolina, as students would be convincing enough: ‘Among the names are William H. Crawford, a pupil in the Appling school and an assistant at Willington; John... ## [Jefferson Davis as President](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/jefferson-davis-as-president/) _2026-08-10 · Ryan Walters · Abbeville Institute_ If we could travel back to the summer of 1860, a time when the two political parties were busy lining up acceptable candidates, preparing for national conventions to nominate someone for President, and trying to hold their fragile components together, little did people know the political chaos that was about to unfold throughout the year, and little did they know... ## [What if South Carolina Really Seceded to Protect Slavery?](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/what-if-south-carolina-really-seceded-to-protect-slavery/) _2026-08-07 · Abbeville Institute · Abbeville Institute_ From the Jefferson Davis X Account. (Let’s Play Devil’s Advocate and Watch the Whole Argument Collapse Anyway) Look, I’ll bite. Let’s pretend—just for the sheer entertainment value—that South Carolina’s secession in December 1860 was nothing but a cold-blooded plot to safeguard the institution of slavery. No states’-rights talk. No tariff gripes. No constitutional compact theory. Just pure,…