February Top Ten

Thank you for making February the best month in the history of the Abbeville Institute! Here are the top ten:

1. Do Confederate Veterans Count? by James Rutledge Roesch

2. All Hail Abe! by Brion McClanahan

3. What Every Southern Boy Should Know by Carl Jones

4. When the Yankees Come: Former South Carolina Slaves Remember the Invasion by Paul C. Graham

5. It Could Have Been Worse, Probably by Clyde Wilson

6. The Bonnie Blue by James Rutledge Roesch

7. Sherman’s March by Clyde Wilson

8. How ’bout a Little Bourbon with Your Philosophy by John Devanny

9. Gentleman Bob and the Decline of the South by John Devanny

10. Is Disparaging the South Becoming Passe? by Gail Jarvis

Brion McClanahan

Brion McClanahan is the author or co-author of six books, How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America (Regnery History, 2017), 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her (Regnery History, 2016), The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, (Regnery, 2009), The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution (Regnery History, 2012), Forgotten Conservatives in American History (Pelican, 2012), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes, (Regnery, 2012). He received a B.A. in History from Salisbury University in 1997 and an M.A. in History from the University of South Carolina in 1999. He finished his Ph.D. in History at the University of South Carolina in 2006, and had the privilege of being Clyde Wilson’s last doctoral student. He lives in Alabama with his wife and three daughters.