Authors

Benjamin Alexander, Ph.D, is a Professor of English and Political Science at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He studied under Andrew Nelson Lytle at the University of the South and Mel Bradford at the University of Dallas.

Bradley J. Birzer is the co-founder of The Imaginative Conservative and Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History at Hillsdale College. He is a Fellow of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Dr. Birzer is author of Russell Kirk: American Conservative (2015, University Press of Kentucky), American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll, Sanctifying the World: the Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, co-editor of The American Democrat and Other Political Writings by James Fenimore Cooper, and co-author of The American West.

Mrs. Becky Calcutt is an independent historian from Charleston, South Carolina.

Barry Clark is currently a field-grade officer in the United States Army. He attended The Citadel (history, class of 1990) and holds a M.A, in Military History from American Military University. He is a native of South Carolina is married and the father of a son and daughter.

I am a Southerner, a father, husband, and Christian and retired active duty Army field grade officer; I served for just over thirty years. I spent four years of my youth at The Citadel in Charleston. I am neither a theologian nor a professional historian. I do however ask many questions and endeavor to find answers and I believe, or at least hope, that I think critically and with the understanding that God provides.

Barton Cockey is an independent historian in Maryland.

Bradley G. Green is married to Dianne, and they have three children--Caleb, Daniel, and Victoria. He teaches theology at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He is the author of The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life, Covenant and Commandment: Works, Obedience, and Faithfulness in the Christian Life, and edited and contributed to Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians. He is currently writing a book on Augustine, and is working on a biblical commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians and Philemon for the Reformation Commentary on Scripture. Brad and Dianne are co-founders of Augustine School, a Christian liberal arts school in Jackson

Bradley Green is a Professor of Theological Studies and Union University.

Bradley Tyler Johnson (1829-1903) was a native of Maryland, a lawyer, and a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. His Maryland Line was famous for its valor and bravery during the War.

Ben "Cooter" Jones is an actor, author, playwright, comedian, musician, and former United States Congressman from Georgia.

Barry Kay is a graduate of North Greenville University where he obtained his B. A. in Elementary Education. He is also a member of Camp 36, Sons of Confederate Veterans in Greenville, South Carolina.

Bill Koon was a Professor of English for over 35 years at Clemson University.

Brian M. Koss grew up in the northern suburbs of Detroit. He and his family currently reside in Horizon West, Florida, an unincorporated area of Orange County. Brian enjoys being an active member of a growing community. He can also be found writing articles about baseball at LegendsonDeck.com.

Barbara Lawter is a Northerner who discovered Dixie and the Southern tradition while living in North Carolina.

Barbara Marthal is an author and storyteller who focuses on the relationship between white and black Southerners and her own Southern heritage.

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.

Brett Moffatt is an independent scholar in Tennessee.

Brad Pond is an independent historian in Georgia.

Bill Potter is an independent historian in Virginia. He has taught history at the high school or collegiate level for forty years and is the author of three books.

Ben Thompson is a graduate of Berry College in Mt. Berry, Georgia. He has worked in marketing and sales with Fortune 500 companies for most of his career. Ben has been a life-long history student of the Southern War for Independence and Conservatism. He is a member of the Etowah Valley Historical Society as well a Deacon and teacher at Rowland Springs Baptist Church. He lives with his wife and raises his four children in Cartersville, Georgia.

Bernhard Thuersam is the Chairman of the North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission.

Clinton Martin Bissell (1877-1934) wrote a popular column in Spartanburg, SC in the 1920s and 30s under the name Eph Goodloe. He was the secretary of the Saxon and Chesnee mills until his death in 1934.

Cole Branham is a native of southern Ohio by birth, but a Kentuckian and Virginian by ancestry. He is an independent researcher, author, historian, and genealogist. He received his bachelors from Xavier University’s Philosophy, Politics, and the Public Honors Program with degrees in political science and history. He also holds a Masters of Library & Information Science as well as a Graduate Certificate in Archival Studies from Louisiana State University. He is an active member of the National Genealogical Society, the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) was a leading Shakespearean and Faulkner scholar, a member of the Fugitive Agrarians, and a Southern literary critic.

Dr. Brosman taught literature at Tulane University and is the poetry editor for Chronicles Magazine.

Charles Raymond Brown received his Ph.D in American History from Princeton University in 1915.

Casey Chalk has degrees in history and education from the University of Virginia, and a masters in theology from Christendom College. He is a regular contributor for New Oxford Review, The Federalist, American Conservative, and Crisis Magazine. He is the author of The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands (Sophia Institute).

Cody Davis is the founder of the Vote Men PAC (VoteMenPAC.com); a political action committee to elect men, and an independent historian and theologian. He writes independently at his Substack, CodyDavis.Substack.com

Clifford Dowdey (1904–1979) was an American author of fiction and nonfiction dealing with the American South, Virginia and especially the War.

Clement Eaton (1898 -1980) was an American historian who specialized in the American South.

Charles Betts Galloway (1849-1909) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was from Mississippi.

Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. is an independent historian and Southerner who taught American and Southern history at the secondary and college levels. She is a national education policy analyst and legislative adviser. A classically trained pianist and organist, she loves the many genres of American music. She’s especially proud that nearly all American music is Southern in origin and identity.

Chris Jackson and his wife Jenny run a family centered sustainable farm in Pine Mountain, Georgia. They personify the agrarian life. Chis considers Wendell Berry to be one of his greatest intellectual influences.

Dr. Christina Jeffrey is a political scientist, wife, mother, and grand-mother. She lives in Spartanburg, S.C., is married to Dr. Robert Jeffrey who is Professor of Government at Wofford College.

Caryl Johnston is the author of Consecrated Venom: The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge and Stewards of History: A Study of the Nature of a Moral Deed as well as many stories, poems, and essays, which have appeared in The University Bookman, Modern Age, The St. Austin Review, and other publications.

Carl Jones is a native of Alabama, a former active duty US Marine and a small business owner. He is a member of the Alabama Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and The Society of Independent Southern Historians. He is proudly descended from two 5th Great Grandfathers, John Swords and Major William Skinner, who served the State of South Carolina in America’s War for Independence.

Charles W. Kent (1860-1917) was professor of literature at the University of Virginia. He co-edited the Library of Southern Literature and wrote several commentaries on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Christopher Kirk is a librarian and teacher in South Carolina.

Cary Lindsay is a native of Abbeville, Alabama and a former executive for a major textbook publisher. He serves as a reader for the Chautauqua Literary Prize for the Chautauqua Institution in New York.

Christopher McDonald is a contributing writer for The College Conservative.

Official documents from the Confederate States of America (1861-1865).

Cliff Page is a native of Charleston, South Carolina, with roots that run deep, and precede the Revolution, but spread from the red clay of the mountains to the sandy loam and swamps of the low country. He has lived, worked and traveled all over America and the world. As an artist, he was Sculptor in Residence at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, NH in 2015, during the 50th Anniversary of the site and the 150th Anniversary of the assassination and death of Abraham Lincoln. He studied at the National Institute for the Fine Arts in Mexico and was a Fulbright Fellow to Italy and was nominated as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Indo-American Scholar in the past. He holds degrees from Old Dominion and East Carolina Universities. Twice, he ran for Mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia, where he lives and maintains his studio and has served on numerous public architectural design, urban planning, and civic planning organizations. He put asside his own work as a sculptor for six years to take up the pin and direct his energies and efforts towards preserving and protecting Southern heritage, monuments and memorials honoring our Confederate Veterans and the brave heroes of Dixie.

Celia Jones Prehn is an independent historian in Virginia.

Charles W. Ramsdell (1877-1942) was a professor of history at the University of Texas, and served on the executive committee of the Texas State Historical Association, 1907–1942. His research centered on the history of the Old South from 1800 to the close of the Reconstruction Era.

Charley Reese (1937-2013) worked as a journalist for almost 50 years, mostly with the Orlando Sentinel.

Carey Roberts holds a Ph.D in American History from the University of South Carolina and is a Professor of History at Liberty University. He is a member of the Abbeville Institute Board of Directors.

Charles Stewart Roberts, MD, is Chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Vanderbilt (BA, 1981) and Emory (MD, 1986) and completed a residency in surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston (1993) and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996).

Charles Stewart Roberts, MD, is a cardiovascular surgeon at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and a Professor of Surgery (Affiliated) with Texas A&M School of Medicine. He is an author of several books.

C.W. Roden is a blogger and "simple small-town country writer" from South Carolina.

Charles Henry Smith (1826 – 1903) was an American writer and politician from the state of Georgia. He used the pen name Bill Arp for nearly 40 years.

Chase Steely is a Tennessean, Veteran, and Student of all things Southern.

Charles Steiner graduated in 1972 with a B.A. in English Literature from Rutgers University. After 30 years in the legal profession, he is now retired and living in San Francisco.

Charles S. Sydnor was professor of history at Duke University at the time of his death in 1954. He had previously served as professor of history at Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Mississippi and had also taught at Emory and Cornell Universities. A one-time president of the Southern Historical Association, he served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Southern History and the Southern Altantic Quarterly.

Clemmie Parker Wilcox (1858-1955) was a native of Alabama.

Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina where he was the editor of the multivolume The Papers of John C. Calhoun. He is the M.E. Bradford Distinguished Chair at the Abbeville Institute. He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews and is co-publisher of www.shotwellpublishing.com, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books.

David Aiken received a B.A. in History, Philosophy and English from Baylor University, a M.Div. in Biblical Studies and Christianity and Culture from Duke University, a M.A. in Southern Literature and Classics from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in American Literature and Modern British and American Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has written, edited or introduced more than fifty articles and books on William Faulkner, Flannery O'Conner, William Gilmore Simms and other Southern authors, and is a founding member of the Abbeville Institute and the William Gilmore Simms Society.

D.A. Anderson was a professor of history at Richmond College.

Diana Karter Appelbaum is an award winning author.

Dave Benner speaks regularly in Minnesota on topics related to the United States Constitution, founding principles, and the early republic. He is a frequent guest speaker on local television and radio shows, and contributes writings to several local publications. Dave is the author of Compact of the Republic: The League of States and the Constitution

David Bovenizer was the senior editor at Regnery publishing.

Demetrius Garland Bowman is an independent poet in North Carolina.

David Crum holds a Ph.D. in Historical Theology. He serves as an Assistant Professor of History at Truett-McConnell University. His research interests include the history of warfare and Christianity.

Donald Davidson (1893-1968) was a poet and literary critic who was considered to be the founder of the Fugitives in Nashville, TN and later the Southern Agrarians of I'll Take My Stand fame.

David Deavel is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative and Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas (Houston). He holds a PhD in theology from Fordham and is a winner of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award and a former Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute. With Jessica Hooten Wilson, he edited Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West (Notre Dame, 2020). Besides his academic publications, Dr. Deavel's writing has appeared in many journals, including Catholic World Report, City Journal, First Things, Law & Liberty, and the Wall Street Journal.

Darrell Dow writes from Crestwood, KY., and is the co-author of Who Is My Neighbor?: An Anthology in Natural Relations. His work has appeared in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Antiwar.com, and American Remnant. A version of this article appeared at American Remnant.

Dan Fisher is a pastor, a former member of the Oklahoma Legislature, and a former gubernatorial candidate for Oklahoma.

David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, and editor of The Mises Review.

Douglas Harper graduated from Dickinson College with majors in history and English, is a historian, author, and journalist who lives in in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Harper has been featured in a BBC production on Welsh settlements in North America and interviewed for historical articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, and other publications. He is the author of historical books on Civil War-era Chester County, Pennsylvania. He is the founder and maintainer of the Online Etymology Dictionary.

David Harris has taught English, history, government and economics for several years in private schools in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Prior to his teaching career he earned a BA in English and linguistics from SUNY New Paltz and worked in Southern Africa as a missionary, assisting with teaching, logistics and documentary film-making. He is currently in his final semester of graduate school, finishing up a degree in ESL education (English as a Second Language). Though currently and traditionally a northern dweller, David traces his family roots to rural eastern Mississippi. He is the son of a pastor and self-proclaimed, "missionary to the Yankees."

Daniel Harvey (D.H.) Hill (1821-1889) was a Confederate general and scholar. After the War, he was the first president of the University of Arkansas and later the current Georgia Military College.

David E. Johnson is an attorney in Virginia and the author of Douglas Southall Freeman

Duncan Killen is an attorney in North Carolina.

Donald Livingston is the founder of the Abbeville Institute and retired Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He has been a National Endowment Independent Studies fellow and a fellow for the Institute of Advanced Studies in the humanities at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Hume's Philosophy of Common Life and Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium, Hume's Pathology of Philosophy.

Truth warrior, Jesus follower, wife, and boy mom. Apologetics practitioner for Christianity, the Southern tradition, homeschooling, and freedom. Recovering feminist-socialist-atheist and retired mainstream journalist turned domesticated belle and rabble-rousing rhetorician. A mama who’s adept at triggering statists, so she’s going to bang as loudly as she can.

Dabney H. Maury (1822-1900) was a Confederate general and founder of the Southern Historical Society.

David McCallister, Esq. is a native of Miami and is a practicing attorney in Florida. He graduated St. Marks School in Southborough, MA. He studied abroad at Winchester College, Winchester, U.K. He earned his BA in History at Emory University and his J.D. at Stetson University. His practice includes First Amendment Constitutional Law and is the leading litigator in monument cases in Florida. He represented the Society for the Preservation of Jewish Civil War History and a combined plaintiff group in filing Amicus Briefs in the Arlington National Cemetery Reconciliation Memorial lawsuit against the Department of Defense.

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of The American Conservative. His writing has appeared in a wide variety of other publications, including The Spectator, Reason, Modern Age, and Orion. Outside of journalism, he has worked as internet communications coordinator of the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign and senior editor of ISI Books. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied classics.

David Middleton is Professor Emeritus of English and Poet in Residence Emeritus at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Middleton’s books of verse include The Burning Fields (LSU Press, 1991), As Far As Light Remains (The Cummington Press [Harry Duncan], 1993), Beyond the Chandeleurs (LSU Press, 1999), The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures by Jean-François Millet (LSU Press, 2005), The Fiddler of Driskill Hill (LSU Press 2013), and Outside the Gates of Eden (Measure Press, 2023). In the spring of 2025, Texas Review Press will publish "Time Will Tell: Collected Poems/ David Middleton." “Pickets” first appeared in the September 2023 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. “Porches” and Section iv of The Dwelling Place first appeared in the Alabama Literary Review. All three poems have been lightly edited for this posting and will be included in "Time Will Tell."

D. Ralph Midyette, Jr. (1886-1980) attended Randolph Macon College in North Carolina.

Daniel Peters is an independent scholar in California.

Dan E. Phillips, MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, GA. His work has appeared at such places as Lew Rockwell, Intellectual Conservative and Chronicles Magazine.

Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953) was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, radio commentator, and author. He is best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, for both of which he was awarded Pulitzer Prizes.

Donald J. Trump is the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

Ernest works was born and raised in Spartanburg South Carolina. He holds a BA in Studio Art, BS in Anthropology from the College of Charleston, MFA in Historic Preservation (Savannah College of Art & Design) and a Certificate in Public History (University of West Georgia). He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (former Georgia Historian, current camp commander in West Virginia) and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (past local Monuments and Graves Registrar, present national GAR Records committee). In 2009 he grew interested in Confederate and Union Monuments while participating in the 100th anniversary of the Carroll County Monument. In 2010, he researched and produced a video “Always Looking North” (shown at the Dixie Film Festival in Athens, Georgia and on YouTube), and a brochure. He works as a Structural Historian in Review & Compliance at the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office and occasionally consults outside of West Virginia under Blevins Historical Research. Before moving to West Virginia, he resided in Villa Rica, Georgia. He writes a regular history-oriented column for the Charleston (WV) Gazette-Mail. Ernest lives with his wife, Lisa, and their six children in Charleston, West Virginia.

Edward G. Bourne (1860-1908) was Professor of History at Yale and one of the founders of the study of Latin American History.

Edwin W. Bowen (1866-1953) was Professor of Latin at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia for 56 years.

Enoch Cade is an independent historian in Louisiana.

Ebenezer Cooke (1680s-1730s) of Maryland was a well-known colonial American poet.

Ellis Merton Coulter (1890–1981) was an American historian of the South, author, and a founding member of the Southern Historical Association. For four decades, he was a professor at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, where he was chair of the History Department for 18 years. He was editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly for 50 years, and published 26 books on the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

Evan Matthew Gelobter is a law instructor at Southern University Law School.

Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) was the premier historian on slavery in the United States and wrote extensively on the American South. His Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize, while he and his wife wrote substantial intellectual histories of the antebellum South, the last being The Mind of the Master Class. Genovese admired the Southern tradition and men like M.E. Bradford and Clyde Wilson.

Curator of African American History at the N.C. Museum of History and co-producer of the documentary video, “Colored Confederates.”

Edward McCrady, Jr. (1833-1903) was an attorney and historian who served South Carolina during the War for Southern Independence, reaching the rank of colonel. He helped Wade Hampton gain power after Reconstruction and was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. He was considered one of the leading conservatives of the State and wrote extensively on the War and South Carolina during the American War for Independence.

Edwin Mims (1872-1959) was Professor of English Literature, Trinity College (Duke University) and editor South Atlantic Quarterly. He taught many of the Fugitives and Southern Agrarians.

Eric Richardson is a graduate student at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University studying ethnic and racial minorities in the South and in America.

Edward Spencer (19th century) was an author from Maryland who contributed to magazines such as Harper's Monthly and Atlantic Monthly.

A native of East Tennessee, Earl Starbuck is an independent historian and a descendant of soldiers on both sides of The Late Unpleasantness and of Governor John Sevier. His father, who was a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, taught him to love history and the South. Starbuck holds a BA in History and Political Science from Carson-Newman University and an MA in History from Liberty University. He has no connection to the coffee company.

Elizabeth Stice is an Associate Professor of History at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

Felicity Allen is an independent scholar in Auburn, Alabama. She is the author of Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart (2000).

Frank Clark has written humor / satire for the John B. Gordon camp, Atlanta and for the Georgia Confederate. He is a stained and beveled glass artist and co-founder and curator of the Col. Hiram Parks Bell Research Center, http://www.bellresearchcenter.com/ Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted in the 1930s for two feature films directed by John Ford, with Will Rogers staring in the lead film, Judge Priest.

Fred Henry Cox was an attorney in New York City.

Franklin Debrot teaches philosophy at James Madison University.

Fred Irland was a reporter for the House of Representatives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fitzhugh Lee (1835-1905) was a Confederate general, governor of Virginia, diplomat, grandson of Light Horse Harry Lee, and nephew of Robert E. Lee.

Forrest L. Marion graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a BS degree in civil engineering. He earned an MA in military history from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in American history from the University of Tennessee. Since 1998, Dr. Marion has served as a staff historian and oral historian at the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Commissioned in 1980, he retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve in 2010. Forrest L. Marion graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a BS degree in civil engineering. He earned an MA in military history from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in American history from the University of Tennessee.

Forrest McDonald (1927-2016) was one of the leading experts on the founding period and the United States Constitution.

Fred Miller is a California writer. His short stories have appeared in over a hundred publications around the world in the past ten years. He is the author of a book of short stories, three books of poetry, and one children's illustrated story. He is a transplanted southerner living in Los Angeles.

Frank Owlsley (1890-1956) was an historian and author, a member of the "Nashville Agrarians," and a professor of history at Vanderbilt and the University of Alabama.

Fred, a keyboard mercenary with a disorganized past, has worked on staff for Army Times, The Washingtonian, Soldier of Fortune, Federal Computer Week, and The Washington Times. He has been published in Playboy, Soldier of Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harper's, National Review, Signal, Air&Space, and suchlike. He has worked as a police writer, technology editor, military specialist, and authority on mercenary soldiers. He is by all accounts as looney as a tune.

Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966) was a professor of history and President of the Southern Historical Association. He wrote several books on Southern history and culture.

Frederick William Thomas (1806-1866) was a writer, close friend of Edgar Allan Poe, professor at the University of Alabama and newspaperman in both Virginia and South Carolina.

Holmes Alexander (1906-1985) was historian, journalist, and author of over a dozen books.

Henry D. Boykin II is an award winning architect from Camden, SC and the author of two books.

Mr. Herbert Chambers has a South Carolina heritage that goes back 276 years. Retired and a Vietnam veteran, he lives in Columbia and has written three volumes: And Were the Glory of Their Times: Men Who Died for South Carolina in the War for Southern Independence.

H. Lee Cheek, Jr., is Professor of Political Science and the former Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at East Georgia State College. Dr. Cheek also directs the College's Correll Scholars Program. He received his bachelor's degree from Western Carolina University, his M.Div. from Duke University, his M.P.A. from Western Carolina University, and his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. As a senior minister in the United Methodist Church (Western North Carolina Conference) for thirty years, Cheek has served as a parish minister, visiting cleric, and U.S Army chaplain. Dr. Cheek's books include Political Philosophy and Cultural Renewal (Transaction/Rutgers, 2001; reprinted, Routledge, 2018 [with Kathy B. Cheek]); Calhoun and Popular Rule, published by the University of Missouri Press (2001; paper edition, 2004); Calhoun: Selected Speeches and Writings (Regnery, 2003); Order and Legitimacy (Transaction/Rutgers, 2004; reprinted, Routledge, 2017); an edition of Calhoun's A Disquisition on Government (St. Augustine's, 2007; reprinted, 2016); a critical edition of W. H. Mallock's The Limits of Pure Democracy (Transaction/Rutgers, 2007; reprinted, Routledge, 2017); Confronting Modernity: Towards a Theology of Ministry in the Wesleyan Tradition (Wesley Studies Society, 2010); an edition of the classic study, A Theory of Public Opinion (Transaction/Rutgers, 2013; reprinted, Routledge, 2017); Patrick-Henry Onslow Debate: Liberty and Republicanism in American Political Thought (Lexington, 2013); and, The Founding of the American Republic (Notre Dame University Press, 2022 [forthcoming]).

H.L. Dowless is an author and an international ESL instructor and speculator.

Henry T. Edmondson III is Carl Vinson Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Georgia College, Flannery O’Connor’s alma mater. He is the author of Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O’Connor’s Response to Nihilism (Lexington Books, 2002) and A Political Companion to Flannery O’Connor (University Press of Kentucky, 2018).

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a Harvard Professor and author.

Hilary Abner Herbert (1834-1919) was Secretary of the Navy in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.

H.W. Johnston was a former Confederate soldier and prominent citizen of Georgia.

Herrick Kimball is a farmer living the agrarian life, but he also has a company dedicated to agrarian books, Planet Wizbang.

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) was an historian and statesman from Massachusetts.

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a prominent American essayist and social critic.

Houston Middleton practices law in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he lives with his wife and three young children. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Houston received his bachelor’s degrees in 2006 from Louisiana State University and his law degree in 2009 from Emory University. Together with one of his heroes, the great early 20th century English Catholic critic of modernity G.K. Chesterton, Houston believes that in our time “America and the whole world is crying out for the spirit of the Old South.”

Henry Laurens Pinckney (1794-1863) was the son of Framer Charles Pinckney and a leading nullifier in South Carolina in 1832. He represented the State in the U.S. Congress from 1833-1837, was Mayor of Charleston and founder of the Charleston Mercury. His wife was the granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee.

Harry Lee Poe is the Charles Colson Chair of Faith and Culture at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, and author of a number of books on Theology and his kinfolk, Edgar Allan Poe.

Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) was the eldest son of St. George Tucker. He was a member of Congress, a law professor at both the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, and a jurist.

Harry Teasley is a retired Coca-Cola executive and friend of the Abbeville Institute.

Henry Timrod (1828-1867) was the Poet Laureate of the Confederacy.

H.A. Scott Trask holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of South Carolina and is an independent historian.

A native of Lynchburg, Virginia, the author graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1967 with a degree in Civil Engineering and a Regular Commission in the US Army. His service included qualification as an Airborne Ranger, and command of an Engineer company in Vietnam, where he received the Bronze Star. After his return, he resigned his Commission and ended by making a career as a tugboat captain. During this time he was able to earn a Master of Liberal Arts from the University of Richmond, with an international focus on war and cultural revolution. He is a member of the Jamestowne Society, the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Society of Independent Southern Historians. He currently lives in Richmond, where he writes, studies history, literature and cultural revolution, and occasionally commutes to Norfolk to serve as a tugboat pilot.

Henry St. George Tucker III (1853-1932) was a law professor, president of the American Bar Association and twice a member of Congress.

For the past 20 years Howard Ray White has studied American political history in great depth with a particular focus on understanding the political causes of the horrific War Between the States, the political passions that sustained the fighting in spite of the death of 360,000 Federals and 260,000 Confederates, and the political passions that forced the political reconstruction of the conquered states. White's study has resulted in his amazing book series of four volumes, titled: "Bloodstains, An Epic History of the Politics that Produced and Sustained the American Civil War and the Political Reconstruction that Followed." White hosts a weekly public access television show in Charlotte, North Carolina, titled "True American History, 1763 to 1885." These are shown locally at 8pm every Tuesday. Many of the 180 episodes of this TV series can also be viewed on-line at vimeo.com/trueamericanhistory.

Isaac Erwin Avery (1871-1904) was Foreign Service officer in the Grover Cleveland administration and newspaperman. He was the editor of the Charlotte Observer from 1900 until his death.

Irving Ashby Buck (1840-1912) was a Confederate Army Officer. Served as Assistant Adjutant General to Confederate Major General Patrick R. Cleburne. He had initially served as a Private in the 7th Virginia Infantry, then been assigned to the staff of General P.G.T. Beauregard. He served with General Cleburne until he was severely wounded in the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia on September 1st, 186, which caused him to miss the Battle of Franklin that claimed Cleburne's Life. After the War, Irving Buck went back to Front Royal and became a leading Citizen, Mason, and Confederate Veteran leader. He wrote "Cleburne and his Command", the first biography of General Cleburne.

Irvin S. Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.

Ilana Mercer is the author of The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed (June 2016) & Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011). She's been writing a weekly, paleolibertarian column, begun in Canadian newspapers, since 1999.

John Mills Allen (1846-1917), known as "Private John" Allen, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi. He gained the nickname "Private John" Allen campaigning for Congress. He was a private throughout the Civil War, and proud of it. In one campaign he ran against a former general. He said that everyone who served as a general in the civil war should vote for the general, " . . . and all of you who were privates and stood guard over the generals while they slept, vote for Private John Allen!" Allen won in a landslide and was thereafter known as "Private John" Allen

James David Altman is an independent historian in Charleston, SC. He’s the son of the late former S.C. Republican House of Representative of John Graham Altman III.

John Battell is a retired pastor and schoolteacher from Wisconsin.

James A. Bayard (1799-1880) was a United States Senator from Delaware. His father, James A. Bayard, cast the deciding vote in the 1800 presidential election, and his grandfather, Richard Bassett, signed the Constitution. His brother, son, and grandson also served in the United States Senate. Bayard was one of the lone voices of opposition to the Lincoln administration during the War.

J.L. Bennett is an independent historian living in Virginia and the author of Maryland, My Maryland: The Cultural Cleansing of a Small Southern State.

James Atticus Bowden holds advanced degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities and is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is an independent historian and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Virginia First Foundation.

Jane Brown is an English professor at North Carolina A&T University.

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) of South Carolina was the leading Southern statesman of his day.

Jo Ann Cavallo is professor and chair of the Department of Italian at Columbia University.

J.A.C. Chandler (1872 – 1934) held a doctorate in History from Johns Hopkins University and was the 18th President of the College of William and Mary (1919-1934). His also called the "Father of Colonial Williamsburg" for his role in transforming the sleepy little historic town into a grand tourist attraction.

Jonathan Chaves is professor of Chinese at The George Washington University.

Jonathan Chaves is professor of Chinese at The George Washington University.

John William Corrington (1932-1988) was a novelist, poet, critic, and filmwriter.

J.L.M Curry (1825 – 1903) was a Congressman, Diplomat and educational reformer from Alabama who served as an officer of the Confederate States Army.

John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a soldier, statesman, author, and President of the Confederate States of America from 1861-1865. Born in Kentucky, he served as a Representative and United States Senator from Mississippi and as Secretary of War in the Franklin Pierce administration.

Jeff Deist is the President of the Ludvig von Mises Institute.

John Devanny holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Devanny resides in Front Royal, Virginia, where he writes, tends garden, and occasionally escapes to bird hunt or fly fish..

Joshua Doggrell is a blessed Christian Southerner who raises three children with his wife on family land in Anniston, Alabama. He has been working in the criminal justice field for 23 years. He has been a contributing columnist for Chronicles magazine and The Fleming Foundation.

Joscelyn Dunlop is a Virginia native and a widely experienced journalist.

John Eidsmoe is a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, a retired Alabama State Defense Force Colonel, and a Colonel in the Mississippi State Guard. He is a Professor of Law at the Oak Brook College of Law and Government Policy, and in his various teaching assignments his students have giving him the Outstanding Professor Award or Prof of the Year Award five times. He has served as Senior Staff Attorney at the Alabama Supreme Court and is currently Senior Counsel & Resident Scholar for the Foundation for Moral Law.

John Avery Emison is a sixth generation Tennessean who holds a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and has worked for more than 15 years in environmental management in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Julia Deane Freeman was a Southern 19th century author and literary critic.

J. William Fulbright (1905–1995) was a Democratic senator from Arkansas and served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

J. Shaw Gillis is an independent scholar in North Carolina.

Dr. John Grove is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Lincoln Memorial University and is the author of John C. Calhoun's Theory of Republicanism. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University and his B.A. from Christopher Newport University. He writes on the American Founding and on Edmund Burke.

Joe Haines is a medical doctor in North Carolina.

Jonathan Harris is a student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

James Barron Hope (1829-1887) was a poet, lawyer, and journalist who served in the Confederate War Department. He was honored with providing the dedication poems for numerous monuments across the South, both before and after the War.

Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation

Joseph S. Johnston is the retired 13th Circuit Judge for the State of Alabama and a certified firearms instructor.

Ron and his twin brother Don are the authors of Punished by Poverty, The South Was Right!, Why Not Freedom!, Was Jefferson Davis Right?, and Nullify Tyranny; Ron is the author of Reclaiming Liberty, Nullification: Why and How, and Uncle Seth Fought the Yankees. Ron is past Commander of the Louisiana Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and is a life member of the Louisiana Division and the National Sons of Confederate Veterans. Ron is a frequent speaker at SCV, Southern Heritage and other pro-Liberty groups. Ron received a Masters in Health Administration (MHA) from Tulane University in New Orleans, a Master of Jurisprudence in Healthcare Law (MJ) from Loyola University Chicago, a Bachelor’s degree from Northeast Louisiana University, a certificate in Paralegal Studies from Louisiana State University and holds numerous professional designations in healthcare and insurance Risk Management.

Jack Kerwick has his doctorate degree in philosophy from Temple University; jackk610@verizon.net; his areas of specialization are ethics and political philosophy, with a particular interest in the classical conservative tradition. His work has appeared in both scholarly journals and popular publications. He is currently a lecturer in philosophy at Rowan College at Burlington County.

James Everett Kibler is a novelist, poet, and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he taught popular courses in Southern literature, examining such figures as William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Wendell Berry, and Larry Brown. Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. This home served as the subject of his first book, Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction in 1999 and the Southern Heritage Society’s Award for Literary Achievement.

James J. Kilpatrick (1920-2010) was a journalist and author famous for his "Point-Counterpoint" segment on 60 Minutes during the 1970s.

Jason Korbel is an independent historian in Florida.

Jay Langdale received his BA from Mercer University, his MA from the Southern Studies Program at the University of Mississippi and his PhD from the University of Florida where he studied under Bertram Wyatt-Brown. His dissertation titled Superfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism and the South was awarded the 2006 M.E. Bradford Prize by the St. George Tucker Society. The revised manuscript was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2012. He is presently working on a biography of the Southern intellectual Richard Malcolm Weaver. In addition to Andrew College, Dr. Langdale has taught at the University of Florida and Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk.

Joel Leggett is a Lt. Colonel in the United States Marine Corps and an independent historian.

John Marquardt is a native of Connecticut but a Southerner at heart. After attending the University of Georgia, Marquardt realized the truth and the value of the Southern tradition. He served in World War II and spent his career in international trade. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan. His Japanese wife loves Charleston and Savannah and admires Southern culture.

James McClellan (1937-2005) was a founding member of the Abbeville Institute, director of publications for Liberty Fund, author or editor of several important works on American political philosophy, friend to M.E. Bradford and Russell Kirk, and a staunch Southern partisan.

Jeff Minick lives in Front Royal, Virginia, and may be found online at jeffminick.com. He is the author of two novels, Amanda Bell and Dust on Their Wings, and two works of non-fiction, Learning as I Go and Movies Make the Man.

Jason Morgan is associate professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan.

Jacob R. Ogan is a graduate student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.

Julie Paine is an independent family educator living in Meridian, Idaho with her husband and four children. She is active in local politics and has taught United States and Idaho State Constitution classes to youth and adults in the community.

Jonathan Papanikolaou B.A., M.A.P.H. is a Southwest Florida educator who has been teaching World History: Ancient Civilizations and English Language Arts (ELA) courses in the public system for almost 10 years. He is also a writer, researcher, and historian with a concentration on historic architecture and preservation. He has given numerous speeches, presentations, and seminars on a number of topics, including: World War II, Degenerate Art, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Gilded Age, Fort Myers Architectural History, and Native American Slave Owners. He can be reached through his website: www.southernfortunes.com.

Justin Pederson is an independent historian.

James (Jim) Pederson is a systems engineer specializing in data analytics for a major a aerospace company who is a self taught independent historian and active member of Sons of Confederate Veterans. He currently resides in Texas.

Juliette Peers is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia.

Josh Phillips is an independent historian.

James Ryder Randall (1839-1908) was a Southern poet, essayist, and journalist.

John Shelton Reed is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

John Remington Graham is an attorney with decades of experience in the fields of constitutional, environmental, and criminal litigation. He served as a federal public defender; special counsel to Brainerd, Minnesota; and Crow Wing County attorney. He has a great many publishing credits in constitutional law and history, and also forensic medicine and science. He has lectured on constitutional law and legal history in the United States and Canada. Graham was also cofounding professor of law at Hamline University in Minnesota.Graham received both a bachelor of arts in philosophy and a law degree from the University of Minnesota. Graham, his wife, and children have lived in Minnesota and Quebec.

John Clark Ridpath (1840 – 1900) was an American educator, historian, and editor.

James I. Robertson, Jr. is Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Virginia Tech.

James Rutledge Roesch is a businessman and an amateur writer. He lives in Florida with his wife, daughter, and dog.

Jeff Rogers is a History Professor at Gordon State College and the author of A Southern Writer and the Civil War: The Confederate Imagination of William Gilmore Simms

Jerry Salyer lives in Kentucky and has written for a variety of outlets, including Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture and Imaginative Conservative.

John Scales is a retired US Army brigadier general. He has written three military history books and a novel; two of the books were on the American Civil War. He has a PhD and six patents.

Jack Schewel is a writer and filmmaker in Virginia.

Joseph Scotchie has spent the last thirty years working in journalism as well as teaching. Currently he is an editor for Anton Community Newspaper in Mineola, New York. His writings have appeared in numerous journals, including Chronicles, Modern Age, The American Conservative, and The Thomas Wolfe Review. In addition his books include Barbarians at the Saddle, Thomas Wolfe Revisited, and Street Corner Conservative: Patrick J. Buchanan and His Times.

Jacob Shatzer holds a Ph.D from Marquette University and is Assistant Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Sterling College.

John Slaughter is a native Alabamaian. He is a graduate of Troy University, a Marine Corps Veteran, and an aspiring novelist.

Jason Sorens (Ph.D) is a lecturer in the Government Department at Dartmouth College.

Jeffrey St. John (1930-1997) was an author and an Emmy Award winning nationally syndicated news commentator for The Washington Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, The Voice of America and Mutual Broadcasting.

Jason Stewart teaches history at Hinds Community College in Jackson, Mississippi. He holds an MA from the University of Southern Mississippi. His thesis was "Comforting the Vanquished: Beauvoir as a Soldiers Home." From 2008-2011 he worked as an oral historian at the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Joseph R. Stromberg is an independent historian born in southwest Florida and currently living in northeastern Georgia. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in History at Florida Atlantic University (1970, 1971) and did further graduate work in History at the University of Florida (1973-75). He was a Richard M. Weaver Fellow in 1970-1971. He has taught college level courses in World Civilizations, American History, and Florida History, as an adjunct instructor. His work has appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, Telos, Chronicles, the Freeman, Future of Freedom, Independent Review, and the American Conservative. He has contributed essays to various collections including Secession, State, and Liberty (1998) and Opposing the Crusader State (2007). On the web he has appeared at Antiwar.com (over a hundred short essays in “The Old Cause” column, 1999-2003), First Principles Journal, Arator, and Anamnesis Journal. His research interests include the Old Right non-interventionists, the American South, peasantries in history, English Enclosures, constitutional issues, secession, and the origins of states and empires.

Joseph Super is a Professor of History at Liberty University. He holds a Ph.D from West Virginia University and specializes in Appalachian Christianity, 19th Century and early 20th Century history, and British history.

J.O. Tate is an independent historian in New York.

John M. Taylor, from Alexander City, Alabama, worked for over thirty years at Russell Corporation (subsequently Fruit of the Loom), primarily in transportation and logistics. In his second career, Taylor is presently Assistant Director at Adelia M. Russell Library in Alexander City. He holds a B.S. Degree in Transportation from Auburn University and an MLIS from the University of Alabama. Taylor is married with two sons and two grandchildren. Inspired by his late Mother, who dearly loved the South and knew one of his Confederate ancestors, Taylor has been a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans since 1989, where he edited both local and State newsletters; this includes eleven years as Editor of Alabama Confederate. He is a member of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars (MOSB), the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), and has supported the Ludwig von Mises Institute since 1993. Taylor’s book, Union At All Costs: From Confederation to Consolidation (Booklocker Publishing), was first released in January 2017.

John Taylor of Caroline (1753-1824) was the leading political philosopher of Jeffersonian Republicanism.

James J. Thompson, Jr. was a former professor at William and Mary and a contributing editor at Chronicles Magazine.

Jack Trotter teaches literature at Trident Tech College, Charleston, South Carolina and frequently writes for Chronicles, A Magazine of American Culture.

John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) served as Attorney General for Virginia, was a member of the United States Congress, and was a legal scholar who authored a two volume work on the Constitution.

Jefferson Viridi is an independent scholar from Florida.

Jason Welch holds a Master's Degree in history from Lincoln University and is the Curator of the Tools of Yesteryear Museum.

John C. Whatley is a retired USArmy Field Artillery Officer and an adjunct professor of business law. He is the author of over 200 by-lined articles on the War Between the States in magazines, newsletters, and newspapers, and is the author of the Typical Confederate series [Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Alabama so far]. He also speaks on The War to historic groups in various States. When he has time, he also works as a business and tax consultant.

Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906) served as a both a general in the Confederate Army and in the United States Army after the War.

Jonathan White is a Virginian whose family has been in the Old Dominion since 1622. He retired from the Army in December after 25 years, including 22 in Special Forces. He holds four master's degrees and is completing his PhD at the University of Alabama. He teaches at the Virginia Military Institute and Liberty University.

James W. Whitehead V is an independent historian in Virginia.

Jeff Wolverton is a native of Indiana who graduated from Chattahoochee Technical College in Marietta, Georgia. Though he worked for 22 years as a software engineer, Jeff has always maintained a passion for the written word, and his work—on subjects ranging from Southern history to holistic medicine for dogs—has appeared in various publications. In addition, Jeff has written articles for his church bulletin and book reviews for Amazon.com. The historical fiction novel Love of Two Worlds is his first book. Jeff is now a resident of Temple Terrace, Florida, where he lives with his wife, Lorrie. When he's not writing, Jeff enjoys reading, studying history, and traveling.

Mr. Joe Wolverton is a native of Osceola, Arkansas, but as the son of a career soldier, he was raised both in Europe and America, graduating from high school in Frankfurt, Germany. Joe received his B.A. degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University in 1995 and his Juris Doctor in 2001 from the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Since 2004, Joe has been a featured contributor to The New American magazine. Most recently, he has written a cover story article on the rise of the surveillance state, as well as numerous articles exposing the tyranny of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and related legislation that he has dubbed the Dossier of Dictatorship. His articles on the NDAA, the Constitution, states rights, drones, and the surveillance state have appeared in national and international publications, including LewRockwell.com, the Ron Paul Forums, the Tenth Amendment Center, Infowars, the Guardian (U.K.), and Business Insider, among others. Joe is a featured speaker on the nationwide Nullify Now! tour and lectures frequently at Campaign for Liberty events. Apart from his work as a journalist and public speaker, Joe is a professor of American Government and was a practicing constitutional law attorney until 2009.

Kent Masterson Brown holds a J.D. from Washington and Lee University and is an accomplished attorney in Kentucky. He was the creator and first editor of the magazine, The Civil War. He is the author of several books, including, Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993 (a History Book Club selection and recipient of the Award of Merit from the Wisconsin Historical Society) and The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State, Mason City: Savas, 2000. He reissued and re-illustrated A.D. Kirwan’s Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade through the University Press of Kentucky in 2002; it was recipient of the Basil W. Duke Award for the best reprint of the year. Mr. Brown’s most recent book, Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign, was released in April of 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press and has received rave reviews. It is a selection of the History Book Club and Military Book Club and has been awarded the 2005 Bachelder-Coddington Award, the 2005 United States Army Historical Foundation Award for Distinguished Writing in History and the 2005 Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr. Literary Prize. He has written numerous articles for scholarly historical journals, and regularly leads Civil War battlefield tours. Mr. Brown is a highly-sought-after speaker, and he lectures on Civil War history all across the nation. Twice a year, Mr. Brown conducts walking tours of Civil War battlefields.

Kevin Flynn is a Retired US. Marine and Iraq and Afghanistan war Veteran. He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and writes articles biweekly for the Civil War Buff Facebook page.

Kevin R.C. Gutzman is the author of Thomas Jefferson--Revolutionary, James Madison and the Making of America, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, Virginia's American Revolution, and with Tom Woods Who Killed the Constitution?

Kevin Orlin Johnson holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the History of Architecture, a Master’s degree in Art History, and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History; he has also fulfilled the requirements for a Bachelor’s degree in History. His publications in his principal field, on topics as varied as Louis XIV’s first designs for Versailles or the design of the Chapel of the Most Holy Shroud in Turin, are considered definitive by many scholars here and abroad. He is the author of The Lincolns in the White House (Pangaeus Press, 2022)

Karol Mazur has an MA in political science and is in postgraduate studies in political science at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He lives in Silesia, Poland.

Keith Redmon is an independent writer, a master mason, and retired police sergeant from North Carolina.

Kirkpatrick Sale is an independent scholar and founder of the Middlebury Institute. He is the author of twelve books, most recently Human Scale Revisited (Chelsea Green).

Kyle Scott, PhD, teaches American politics and constitutional law at Duke University. He has published three books and dozens of articles on issues ranging from political parties to Plato. His commentary on contemporary politics has appeared in Forbes, Reuters.com, Christian Science Monitor, Foxnews.com, and dozens of local outlets including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun.

Karen Stokes, an archivist at the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston, is the author of nine non-fiction books including South Carolina Civilians in Sherman’s Path, The Immortal 600, A Confederate Englishman, Confederate South Carolina, Days of Destruction, and A Legion of Devils: Sherman in South Carolina. Her works of historical fiction include Honor in the Dust and The Immortals. Her latest non-fiction book, An Everlasting Circle: Letters of the Haskell Family of Abbeville, South Carolina, 1861-1865, includes the correspondence of seven brothers who served in the Confederate Army with great distinction.

Leslie Alexander is the descendent of a Confederate veteran and a Revolutionary War soldier. She brought a small bit of Louisiana earth with her to Dallas.

Letitia M. Burwell (1831-1905) was a Virginia author and the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson's personal secretary.

Lee Congleton is a retired Major in the United States Army and an independent scholar.

Lloyd Garnett is a retired “jack of several trades”, avid reader, observer and a Virginian.

Lewis Grizzard (1946-1991) was a Southern humorist and newspaper columnist who irritated Yankees every time he picked up his pen or opened his mouth.

Laurie Hibbett is an independent scholar in Tennessee.

Ludwell H. Johnson was Emeritus Professor of History at The College of William and Mary and the author of North Against South: An American Iliad.

Larry Koger holds an MA in history from Howard University and is the author of "Black Slaveowners."

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) was an American politician, diplomat, and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in both houses of Congress, served as the United States Secretary of the Interior, and was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He raised a Confederate regiment with his own money during the War, served in the army, and was later a Confederate diplomat to Russia, Great Britain, and France.

Lafayette Lee is a veteran and writer living in Virginia.

Lorene Leiter spent most of her working years in scientific research in the fields of nutrition, cancer, and neuroscience. Most recently, she taught Anatomy and Physiology at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in Nutrition from Rutgers University. She is the author of many scientific papers.

Lewis Liberman is a college graduate, professional graphic artist, writer, award winning illustrator, proud Southerner and totally awesome Generation Xer. When he’s not working as an educator, or poking a little fun at the lunacy of the left and the radicals in “Yankee-dom”, he enjoys reading, playing music, serving the Lord and spending time with family. Find him at libertopiacartoon.wordpress.com.

Louis T. March is an independent historian in Virginia.

Lunelle McCallister, a native Floridian, is a noted speaker on the history of the Confederacy and her people in multiple states for historical organizations, museums and genealogical societies including William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum in Atlanta.

Loxley Nichols taught English at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland

Lawrence Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Before joining FEE, Reed served as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland, Michigan based free-market think tank.

Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr. is the founder and President Emeritus of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Louis D. Rubin, Jr., (1923-2013) was a literary critic and scholar, founder of Algonquin Books, and professor of literature at the University of North Carolina.

Lola Sanchez is an independent historian in Florida.

Lowell Schreyer (1929-2007) was a renowned banjo player and newspaperman in Minnesota who performed up and down the Mississippi with various Dixieland musical outfits.

Lewis M. Stone was a delegate to the Alabama Secession Convention from Pickens County.

Lyon G. Tyler (1853-1935) was president of the College of William and Mary from 1888-1919 and the second youngest son of President John Tyler.

Michael Armstrong is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta where he obtained his B. S. in History and his B. A. in Anthropology. He obtained his M.A.T. in Adolescent Education at Binghamton University. He teaches Middle School Social Studies in upstate New York. Despite being a lifelong Northerner, he shares a common cultural heritage with all Appalachians, North and South, and insists that he would have been an ardent Copperhead had he been born a century and a half earlier.

Dr Michael Arnheim s a London Barrister, Sometime Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and author of 20 published books to date, most recently a new edition of his US Constitution for Dummies (Wiley). His Wikipedia bio is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Arnheim.

I have six wee bairns who are all seventh-generation Henry County, Tennessee, and all from the same doe. It is the people of Henry County that I most want to reach but I am writing to Southerners generally. I am without credentials but rather dare to speak by the same authority as the little boy who cried 'The king has no clothes!' My core belief and starting point is that like everything, we humans have a nature, it is not so hard to understand, and to pretend that it is other than it is, is to jump off a cliff. Which is what we Americans have in fact done.

Marco Bassani is professor of history of political theory at the University of Milan.

Mark Baxter is a Georgia attorney and a member of the Abbeville Institute Board of Directors.

Michael Boldin is the founder and director of the Tenth Amendment Center.

Melvin E. "Mel" Bradford (1934-1993) was a conservative political commentator and Professor of Literature at the University of Dallas.. He was the author of A Better Guide than Reason: Federalists and Anti-Federalists, Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the Constitution, Founding Fathers: Brief Life of the Framers of the Constitution, and The Reactionary Imperative: Essays Literary & Political.

Michael R. Bradley is professor emeritus of History at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tennessee where he taught for 36 years. He is a native of the Tennessee-Alabama state line region near Fayetteville, Tennessee. He attended Samford University for his B.A., took a Master of Divinity at New Orleans Seminary, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1970. He has been pastor of two Presbyterian churches in Middle Tennessee. He served as interim Pastor of two others. Dr. Bradley is the author of several books on the War Between the States including Tullahoma: The 1863 Campaign; With Blood and Fire: Life Behind Union Lines in Middle Tennessee; Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escort and Staff ; It Happened in the Civil War; Forrest's Fighting Preacher, David Campbell Kelley of Tennessee; The Raiding Winter; Civil War Myths and Legends; They Rode with Forrest, and others including a lifetime of articles and talks. In 1994 he was awarded the Jefferson Davis Medal in Southern History. In 2006 he was elected commander of the Tennessee Division SCV and is a Life Member. He served on Tennessee's Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.

Retired since 2014 from the 9-to-5 life, T. M. Brown, simply Mike to friends and family, embraces his Georgia heritage. He recalls his childhood when on many warm Sunday afternoons his father drove the family beyond Stone Mountain to his Great-Uncle’s farm on the then dust-filled, red clay back roads of Snellville, GA, Mike fondly recalls the bite of barb-wire pasture fences, sipping cool well-water from a ladle, and getting scrubbed in a washtub near the front stoop of Uncle Kerry’s and Aunt Monk’s old farmhouse. Today, Mike and his wife Connie live below Atlanta near Newnan, Georgia. He has published the three-book Shiloh Mystery Series: Sanctuary, A Legacy of Memories (Jan 2018); Testament, An Unexpected Return (March 2018); Purgatory, A Progeny's Quest (February 2022). His fourth book is a historical novel, The Last Laird of Sapelo, August 15, 2023 by Koehler Books. A common theme throughout all his stories stems from the truth his pop and poppa exemplified and taught him while growing up in Georgia and Florida. “The testament of a man lies not in the magnitude of possessions and property left to his heirs, but the reach of his legacy long after his death.” President, Hometown Novel Writers Association, Inc, Newnan, GA B. A. Theology/Church History, Baptist College of Florida

Mike Church is a New Orleans native and a radio host appearing daily on the SiriusXM Patriot Channel. He is an author and editor of “Patrick Henry-American Statesman” and is the writer and director of 7 Docudramas on American history including “The Spirit of ‘76” and the recently released “Times That try Men’s Souls-Washington’s Crossing”.

Dr. Michael J. Connolly is Professor of History at Purdue University Northwest in Indiana. Dr. Connolly received his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America and is the author of Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England, as well as many articles on nineteenth-century American History. He has been published in New England Quarterly, Modern Age, the Historical Journal of Massachusetts, and the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, among others.

Matt De Santi is a high school senior in California interested in the Southern tradition.

Marshall DeRosa received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Houston and his B. A. from West Virginia University, Magna Cum Laude. He has taught at Davis and Elkins College (1985-1988), Louisiana State University (1988-1990), and Florida Atlantic University (1990-Present). He is a Salvatori Fellow with the Heritage Foundation and full professor in the Department of Political Science. He has published articles and reviews in professional journals, book chapters, and three books. He resides in Wellington, FL, with his wife and four children.

Michael Drayton (1563-1631) was an English Renaissance poet.

Marcus Ruiz Evans is the founder of the CalExit movement in California.

Miles Foltermann holds degrees from Texas A&M University, McGovern Medical School, and Covenant Theological Seminary. A native Texan, he now lives and practices medicine in Middle Tennessee.

Michael Gaddy is a student and teacher of our founding era and the South for 30 plus years. He's self taught through the writings of the best the South has to offer, including Robert Lewis Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Shelby Foote, Clyde Wilson and John C, Calhoun, to name just a few.

Mike Goodloe was born in Virginia and raised in Alabama. He has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University with a dissertation titled "Money, Democracy, and The Southern Tradition." He is a life member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and lives in Costa Rica with his wife.

M. Andrew Holowchak, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and history, who taught at institutions such as University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, and Rutgers University, Camden. He is author/editor of over 70 books and over 325 published essays on topics such as ethics, ancient philosophy, science, psychoanalysis, and critical thinking. His current research is on Thomas Jefferson—he is acknowledged by many scholars to be the world’s foremost authority—and has published over 230 essays and 28 books on Jefferson. He also has numerous videos and two biweekly series with Donna Vitak, titled “One Work, Five Questions” and "The Real Thomas Jefferson," on Jefferson on YouTube. He can be reached at mholowchak@hotmail.com

Mary Anna Jackson (1831-1915) was the second wife and widow of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. After the War, she was called the "Widow of the Confederacy."

Michael Jordan is a Professor of English at Hilllsdale College.

Michele Kayal is co-founder of the website American Food Roots, http://www.americanfoodroots.com/ . Follow her at @AmerFoodRoots

Michael Kogan is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Philosophy at Montclair State University.

Mark Malvasi is Professor of History at Randolph-Macon College and one of the foremost authorities on The Vanderbilt Agrarians.

Mark Mantel is a lawyer and writer living in Richmond, Virginia. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and came to the South as a boy. He soon found the old Southern tradition a genuine continuation of that lost European culture, in the best sense, which had been based on loyalty and faith. His articles often appear in the Salisbury Review over in England. Besides poetry is he interested in Byzantine Christian thought.

Michael Martin is a teacher and independent historian currently residing in Eastern North Carolina. He's the author of Southern Grit: Sensing the Siege of Petersburg from Shotwell Publishing and you can find more of his work on his YouTube channel, Truth Decay.

Malcolm McNeill worked as a political artist for The New York Times, cover artist for Marvel Comics and collaborated with author William S. Burroughs for almost a decade. His images have been exhibited in London, New York and Los Angeles. As a Director, he won numerous awards including an Emmy, and was introduced at the Broadcast Design Awards in 1991 as “…the man probably responsible for the most imitated [television] design style of the 1980s”. He has written and published four books.

Martin O'Toole is an attorney in Georgia and serves as the Georgia Division spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans and director of litigation.

Michael Potts, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Michael Schearaer is an independent historian.

Mike Scruggs is an independent historian.

Mike Stephens is an independent writer in Georgia.

Mary Barbara Tate taught English literature at Georgia College. She was a friend and a member of Flannery O'Connor's reading circle.

M. C. Tuggle is a writer in Charlotte, North Carolina, whose short stories have appeared in several publications. The Novel Fox published his novella Aztec Midnight in 2014. His next book, The Genie Hunt, is a tribute to Manly Wade Wellman’s Southern tales, and will be published this summer. He blogs at mctuggle.com

Moses Coit Tyler (1835-1900) was professor of American History at Cornell University.

Mary Washington was a contributor to the Southern Planter magazine of the early 20th century.

Mark Royden Winchell (1948-2008) was a professor of English at Clemson University and a prolific writer on Southern culture, the arts, and history.

Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851) was the second son of St. George Tucker. He was a judge, legal scholar and author of several books.

Norman Black is a former Navy journalist, news-wire and newspaper reporter, whose news stories, feature articles, and commentaries have appeared in newspapers and magazines in many countries. He is also the author of 12 volumes of autobiographical stories of combat veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and U.S. wars since Vietnam. These volumes constitute his Combat Veterans’ Stories series. His first work is Ice, Fire, and Blood, a military history novel about a period in the Korean War.

Neil Kumar is a law student who lives in the Arkansas Ozarks. He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Sons of the American Revolution, with blood that has been Southern since the seventeenth century

Norman E. Rourke is an author and freelance writer.

Norman Stewart is an independent scholar and film critic in North Carolina.

Nicole Elizabeth Williams is a public policy professional and former political campaign staffer. She holds two postgraduate degrees from the University of Glasgow in the fields of public policy and political communication and is a 2010 graduate of Tulane University. She previously worked as a staffer for a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons in Great Britain prior to returning to the United States. Her primary area of focus is the intersection of Southern colonial history and its effect on contemporary culture with a particular focus on the Scots-Irish. Nicole is from north Georgia and currently resides in Virginia.

Nicole Williams is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Oran Milo Roberts (1815-1898) was born in South Carolina and was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1836. He worked as a lawyer and served in the Alabama legislature. He moved to Texas were he served as district attorney, law professor and eventually on the Texas Supreme Court. He supported secession and was elected president of the Texas Secession Convention. He served as a colonel in the Confederate army and was then appointed Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. After the war, he was appointed to the United States Senate but was refused a seat during Reconstruction. He then opened a law school and was later appointed to the Texas Supreme Court and then twice elected Governor of Texas. He helped found the University of Texas and later served as a professor of law at that institution.

Otto Scott (1918 – 2006) was a journalist and author of corporate histories who also wrote biographies on notable figures such as the abolitionist John Brown, James I of England and Robespierre.

Oscar Underwood (1862-1929) served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from the State of Alabama. He was born in Kentucky, studied law at the University of Virginia. After being defeated for re-election to the Senate in 1926 because he opposed the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, he retired to "Woodlawn Plantation" in Fairfax, Co., VA (at one time part of Washington's estate) where he died in 1929.

Prioleau Alexander is a writer for The Charleston Mercury, a broadsheet newspaper committed to Southern culture, history, leaders, and sports afield. Subscriptions are available at their website, CharlestonMercury.com

Duncan Killen is an attorney in North Carolina.

Philip Dickey is a native of North Carolina and Morehead Scholar graduate of the University of North Carolina. He is a Member of the Board, Italian American Defense League.

Paul Gottfried is the president of the H.L. Mencken Club, a prolific author and social critic, and emeritus professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College.

Paul C Graham he holds a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. He is past president of the SC Masonic Research Society and the current editor of The Palmetto Partisan, the official journal of the SC Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Mr. Graham is a member of several organizations including The Society of Independent Southern Historians and The William Gilmore Simms Society.

Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886) was a nineteenth-century Southern American poet, critic, and editor.

Philo Henderson (1823-1852) was a North Carolina poet.

Peter Jones is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. In 2006 he published the biography of Ove Arup, the pioneering engineer, philosopher, and humanist who founded the company that still bears his name.

Philip Leigh contributed twenty-four articles to The New York Times Disunion blog, which commemorated the Civil War Sesquicentennial. He is the author of U.S. Grant's Failed Presidency, Southern Reconstruction (2017), Lee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies (2015), and Trading With the Enemy (2014). Phil has lectured a various Civil War forums, including the 23rd Annual Sarasota Conference of the Civil War Education Association and various Civil War Roundtables. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northwestern University.

Patrick McSweeney was Head of the Office of Legislative Affairs of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Nixon Administration, directed the reorganization of Virginia state government in the 1970s, and served as chairman of he Republican Party of Virginia. He has given many addresses on behalf of the Southern tradition, including the annual address at Arlington Cemetery, the Lee-Jackson ceremony at the Capitol of Virginia, and the address dedicating the monument to the last Capitol of the Confederacy at Danville, Virginia.  He and his wife live on a farm a couple of miles from Lee's last bivouac at his brother's farm in Powhatan, Virginia.

Patrick Seay is an independent historian in Virginia.

Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD, is an author and historian of numerous acclaimed publications, including George Washington's Surprise Attack, Pickett's Charge, Death at the Little Bighorn, Miller Cornfield at Antietam and more. After earning his PhD in 1990, he took a position as civilian historian with the Department of Defense. The author resides in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

Patricia Woods is a writer of nonfiction who is now writing romance novels under a nom de plume. Her Southern roots run deep and wide for almost 400 years. Naturally, all her romance novels will be set in the South, as is only proper.

I was born and reared in Mississippi, lived in both Louisiana and Texas (past 40 years). My wonderful wife of 43 years who recently passed away was from Louisiana. I have spent most of my business career in the oil business. I took up writing as a hobby 7 or 8 years ago and love to write about the South. I have just finished a third novel. I also believe in the South and its true beliefs.

Rafael Alvarez was a city desk reporter on the Baltimore Sun for nearly a quarter of a century. A former staff writer for the HBO drama The Wire (he helped create the character of Ziggy Sobotka), Alvarez recently completed a feature script about the Nazi occupation of Greece. His new collection of stories is Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown, published in 2017 by CityLit Press.

Rev. Larry Beane serves as pastor at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gretna, LA and teaches high school Apologetics, Economics, and Government at Wittenberg Academy (online).

Roger Busbice is a resident of Morgan City, Louisiana. A magna cum laude graduate of Louisiana Tech in 1969, he holds a master's in Social Studies Education/History and has thirty hours above the master's. Busbice served as a teacher, principal, supervisor of instruction, and director of personnel for the St. Mary Parish public school system; and taught for Nicholls State University and for the Louisiana State University Lagniappe Program as an adjunct instructor of history. From 1992-1995, he was the archivist and historian for Louisiana's Old State Capitol. Later, as Director of Legal Services for Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana, a conservative teachers group he helped found, Busbice created the annual American Studies Conference in Baton Rouge to promote traditionalism in social studies. He has published numerous articles, essays, and book reviews. Now retired, Busbice currently serves as State Commander of the Louisiana Society of the Military Order of the Stars & Bars.

Rick Cartledge is in Communications with the Georgia State Patrol and is a freelance writer. He is descended from four of the Cavaliers.

Roger W. Cole was the Director of the Division of Language at the University of South Florida.

Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) was a Southern Presbyterian theologian and a biographer of Thomas J. Jackson.

Robert Y. Drake (1930-2001) was a writer and professor of Southern Literature.

Robert Burwell Fulton (1849-1919) was an American university administrator. He served as the seventh Chancellor of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi from 1892 to 1906.

Richard M. Gamble is Associate Professor of History and Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair in History and Political Science at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He also directs Hillsdale's honors program. His teaching has been recognized with the Emily Daugherty Award for Teaching Excellence and twice with the Curtis A. Seichter Endowed History Award. He is a contributing editor at The American Conservative and serves on the editorial board of Humanitas, a publication of the National Humanities Institute. His essays and reviews have appeared in The American Conservative, Humanitas, The Journal of Southern History, Historically Speaking, The Intercollegiate Review, Modern Age, The University Bookman, The Independent Review, and other publications.

Benjamin Glaser is a father of four and a conservative Presbyterian minister in rural north central South Carolina. He is a native West Virginian and a Marine Corps veteran.

Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815-1857) was a Northern literary critic and has been called Edgar Allen Poe's "character assassin." Regardless of this transgression, he allowed William Gilmore Simms to contribute to his study of American Revolutionary War generals and wrote this laudatory biography of George Washington.

R. Ashley Hall was born and raised in Tennessee and has Bachelor’s degrees in History and Political Science and an M.Div. In Historical Theology. He currently resides in Nebraska.

Robert Y. Hayne (1791-1839) was United States Senator from South Carolina, Governor of South Carolina, and Mayor of Charleston. He engaged Daniel Webster in the famous Webster-Hayne debate of 1832 over the nature of the Union.

“Rev. Tar Heel” is a young minister of a small town congregation in his native state of North Carolina.

Robert M. Hicklin Jr., Inc. is this nation’s leading dealer in fine art relating to the American South. In 1998, Hicklin moved to Charleston and opened The Charleston Renaissance Gallery®, a store-front venue offering discerning connoisseurs premier Southern masterworks, including nineteenth and twentieth century oils; works on paper and sculpture; and the art of the Charleston Renaissance. Restored to period perfection, the elegant nineteenth century gallery—located at 103 Church Street in the heart of downtown Charleston—was awarded the 1999 Carolopolis Award by the Preservation Society of Charleston in recognition of its outstanding rehabilitation.In 2019, Rob and Jane closed the Church Street location of the Charleston Renaissance Gallery and relocated paintings and persons to Yemassee, South Carolina. A native of Columbus, Georgia, Hicklin attended public schools there and in Bessemer City, North Carolina before moving to Spartanburg, South Carolina in the late 1950s. Mr. Hicklin graduated from Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina and began his career in the art business in 1972 following a tour of duty in the United States Army. He is the owner of Robert M. Hicklin, Jr., Inc; The Charleston Renaissance Gallery: Saraland Press; and principal of Harlean Limited Partnership.

Mrs. Holley was the third generation of a Southern family in California.

Robert Hoyle is a Southern Presbyterian who resides on the family farm in Dinwiddie Virginia. He and his wife Rachel currently have four sons.

Randall Ivey teaches English at the University of South Carolina, Union and is the author of two short story collections and a book for children. His work has appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies in the United States and England.

Born, March 17, 1942, Rock Killough grew up on a farm some 14 miles east of Greenville, Alabama and began playing guitar at eight years old. He graduated from Greenville High school in 1960 and joined the Army National Guard. He then attended college at Alabama and Auburn, but dropped out in 1973 and turned to music as a career and eventually becoming a studio musician, vocalist and song writer for some of the major Country Music Artists throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Rock currently lives outside of Guntersville, Alabama.

Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism.

Robin Spencer Lattimore, of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, is an award-winning historian and author of more than 30 books and scholarly monographs that celebrate the history, traditions, and people of the American South. He is the co-author of Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018, and author of Southern Plantations: The South’s Grandest Homes, published by Shire Books (now a part of Bloomsbury Publishing) of Oxford, England, in 2012. In addition to his printed works, Lattimore served as the chief historian and commentator for the Emmy-nominated, PBS documentary “Gold Fever and the Bechtler Mint,” produced by UNC-TV and released nationally in 2013. Lattimore was named the North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2009, by the North Carolina Society of Historians. He was bestowed with the legendary Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina’s highest civilian honor, in 2013. He is a high school teacher at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, in Rutherford County, NC.

Ross Lence was a professor of Political Science at the University of Houston from 1971-2006, where he was John and Rebecca Moores Scholar and held the Ross M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair.

Ronald F. Maxwell is a film director and writer. His directing credits include Gettysburg (1993), Gods and Generals (2003), and Copperhead (2013).

Robert McHugh was a journalist and friend of H.L. Mencken. He edited a collection of Mencken's essays titled, "The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts & Bravos," following Mencken's death. He was the only journalist invited to Mencken's funeral. McHugh worked in Iowa, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Baltimore. He spent his later years as the editor of the Biloxi Herald.

Robert McReynolds works as a defense contractor in Washington DC and is enrolled at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in Washington DC where he is scheduled to graduate in 2020. He is a writer at Ricochet.com. He spent five years in the United States Navy and is very familiar with the national security establishment of the United States. He hopes to practice antitrust law upon graduating law school. He lives just outside Washington DC on the Maryland side of the Potomac with his wife and their son.

Ray Merlock is a professor of mass media at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Robert E. Merry was the former managing editor of the Tacoma Washington News-Tribune.

Rachel S. Miller is a novice short story writer. She graduated from Samford University in Birmingham with a BA in English. She grew up in the Carolina Lowcountry, but has recently relocated to Colorado with her husband. She has found a new home in the Rocky Mountains, but her Southern spirit weaves its way into her writing.

Rod O’Barr is retired and lives in Tennessee with his wife of 45 years, Kathy. He has advanced degrees in Philosophy and Theology, and a lifelong interest in history. He is the webmaster of a WWII website and a member of both the Abbeville Institute and the SCV. When not enjoying time with his children he enjoys doing living history at local schools.

Robert L. Paquette is a prize-winning historian and co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. He has taught at Hamilton College for thirty-three years, where he held the Publius Virgilius Rogers Chair in American History for seventeen years until January 2011, when he resigned the title in protest of the educational direction of the college.

Robert Peters is an independent historian in Louisiana.

Attorney R.E. Salyer is the author of A Primer On The Right: The Challenge of the Modern Right and How It Relates to the Contemporary Left.

Robert Martin Schaefer was associate professor of political science at the University of Mobile. He is the author or editor of several books on American politics.

Raphael Semmes (1809 -1877) was a native of Maryland and an officer in the Confederate Navy. He was captain of the CSS Alabama. He served as a college professor and newspaper editor after the War.

Mr. Smith writes essays and commentary on politics, American history, environment, higher education and culture. He's been published in print media and at blog sites for about 20 years. Smith's formal education includes B.S. and M.S. degrees from the State University of New York and Syracuse University. He has earned a 21-credit hour Certificate in Professional Writing from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Training/work experience: NYS Ranger School; U. S. Army, Corp of Engineers; soil scientist and forester with USDA; Assoc. Professor at SUNY; real estate agent; small business owner.

R.M. Stangler is an advancement officer at Donnelly College.

Robert F. Turner is the Distinguished Fellow and Associate Director, Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia.

Ryan S. Walters is an independent historian who lives and writes in North Texas. He is the author of five books, including The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding. He can be reached at ryanswalters.net.

Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963) was a scholar, literary critic, political philosopher, historian, and champion of the Southern tradition.

Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847) was a poet, lawyer, professor, and statesman from Georgia.

Shane Anderson is a Civil War re-enactor and amateur historian from South Carolina

Samuel Ashwood is a minister and historian in Oklahoma.

Simon Baruch (1840-1921) was a physician, scholar, and leading public health advocate in both the South and the United States. He served as a physician in the Confederate military, spent time in Fort McHenry during the War, and later after working in the slums of New York became an advocate for public baths and better American hygiene.

Stephen Borthwick is a history teacher who was raised in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania with a deep love and admiration for Southern culture and sympathy for the Great Cause shared by his Irish-American predecessors who were Copperhead Democrats and mineworkers exploited by Republican industrialists. He is completing his PhD dissertation in European history at Catholic University in Washington, DC and is blessed to be living just outside of Gainesville, Georgia with his wife and (soon to be two) children. 

Sean Busick hold a Ph.D in American History from the University of South Carolina. He is Associate Professor of History at Athens State University and President of the William Gilmore Simms Society. He is the author of A Sober Desire for History: William Gilmore Simms as Historian (USC Press, 2005) and other books.

Stephen Davis, of Cumming GA, is a native Virginian who's been studying Robert E. Lee since the 4th Grade. He is the author of ten books on the War for Southern Independence. Just out is I Thank the Lord I Am Not a Yankee: Selections from Fanny Andrews's Wartime and Postwar Journals (Mercer University Press, 2023). Steve's at work now on a faux-autobiography of Lee, imagining what the General might have written about his life ca. 1867-68 during his presidency of the College.  Years ago, in a visit to St. Paul's in Richmond, his host asked if he would care to sit in the pew that General Lee customarily occupied. Steve declined, saying, "I am not worthy."

Samuel T. Francis (1947-2005) was a Southern columnist and writer.

Sam Houston "High Hat Sam" Jones (1897-1978) was the 46th Governor of Louisiana (1940-44).

Stewart O. Jones represents District 14 in the South Carolina State House of Representatives.

Stephen Klugewicz is editor of The Imaginative Conservative. He is the former executive director of the Collegiate Network at ISI and of the Robert and Marie Hansen Foundation and has long experience in education, having been president of Franklin’s Opus, director of education at the National Constitution Center, and headmaster of Regina Luminis Academy. He holds a Ph.D. in American History, with expertise in the eras of the Founding and Early Republic. Dr. Klugewicz is the co-editor of History, on Proper Principles: Essays in Honor of Forrest McDonald and Founders and the Constitution: In Their Own Words.

Steve Lee is an independent historian in Arizona.

Dr. Stephen Linton is a humanitarian and an expert on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). He has visited North Korea over 80 times since 1979 and twice met the country's late president, Kim Il-sung, as an advisor and translator to the Rev. Billy Graham. He is also the founder and chairman of the Eugene Bell Foundation, which provides medical humanitarian assistance to rural North Korea. Focusing on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the foundation currently sponsors 12 medical centers serving patients in half of the country.

Strom McCallum is a “ranting Southern centrist.” Read more of his work at The Carolus Blog.

Sean McGowan is a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and is pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, FL. He is the author of two books—Infant Baptism: An Introductory Sprinkling for Parishioners, and Psalms that Curse: A Brief Primer.

Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., is the author of Bust Hell Wide Open and Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals.

Sarah B. Guest Perry is an independent historian.

Spencer Roane (1762-1822) was one of the leading Jeffersonians in Virginia during the early federal period and was Jefferson' choice for Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court had Adams not nominated John Marshall instead. He was a staunch defender of the original Constitution and federalism, often defined as "State's Rights." Roane served on the Virginia Court of Appeals (Supreme Court of Virginia) for 27 years and was Patrick Henry's son-in-law.

Sara Sass is an attorney in Virginia.

Shaan Sandhu is an aspiring graduate student in electrical engineering who also happens to have a passion for history and learning about the truth. When he's not studying or out running he loves to work on refining his art hobby. Even though he lives in coastal California, he loves to learn more about the Southern tradition and its history beyond the War.

St. George Sioussat (1878-1960) was professor of history at Vanderbilt, The University of the South, Brown University, and the University of Pennsylvania, and Chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.

Stephen Page Smith is an attorney and independent scholar in Virginia.

Samuel C. Smith holds a Ph.D in American History from the University of South Carolina. He is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Graduate Program at Liberty University.

Scott Strzelczyk is a native Marylander and still calls Maryland his country. He is a husband and father of five children. He founded the Western Maryland Initative to form the 51st state out of the five western counties of Maryland. Along with Mark Kreslins and Joshua Lyons he co-hosted The Forgotten Men radio show which focused on viewing current and historical political events through the lens of the constitution. He has written numerous articles published by American Thinker and the Tenth Amendment Center.

Sheldon Vanauken (1914-1996) was an author and friend of C.S. Lewis. His popular work, A Severe Mercy, is being worked for a major motion picture.

Steven Yates earned his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1987 at the University of Georgia. He has held non-tenure-track positions, both full- and part-time, at Clemson University, Wofford College, Auburn University, the University of South Carolina, Southern Wesleyan University, Midlands Technical College, Limestone College, Greenville Technical College, and USC-Upstate (formerly University of South Carolina at Spartanburg). He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994), Four Cardinal Errors: Reasons for the Decline of the American Republic (Brush Fire Press International, 2011), and most recently, a Kindle ebook, Philosophy Is Not Dead: A Vision of the Discipline’s Future (Brush Fire Press International, 2014). He has written numerous philosophical articles and review essays for refereed journals, book reviews, and chapters in books, as well as over a hundred essays for commentary websites. He has also worked as a professional typist and word processor, obituary writer, and ghostwriter. In 2012, Dr. Yates “resigned” from his adjunct teaching position at USC-Upstate and moved to Santiago, Chile. While learning Spanish he has taught private classes in English, graduate-level philosophy of language and philosophy of science courses at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, and now teaches critical thinking (in English) at Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello. Recently married to a Chilean woman, he lives in Santiago with her and two spoiled cats. He has begun work on a long-term project tentatively entitled The Fifth Stage of Civilization which is intended to encourage and begin framing our long-term thinking about how to move past the prevailing intellectual ethos of postmodern skepticism, materialism (both economic and otherwise), and the present indifference to life and to the systems on which our lives all ultimately depend.

Travis Archie is an independent historian from Missouri.

Theodore Gaillard Barker (1832-1917) served as a major in Wade Hampton's cavalry during the War. He was a lawyer in Charleston both before and after the War, and took up rice planting in 1874. He was also a leader in South Carolina Democratic Party.

Thomas F. Bayard (1828-1898) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat from Wilmington, Delaware. A Democrat, he served three terms as United States Senator from Delaware and made three unsuccessful bids for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. In 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed him Secretary of State. After four years in private life, he returned to the diplomatic arena as Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Thomas Hart Benton (1782 – 1858), nicknamed "Old Bullion", was an American politician, attorney, soldier, and longtime United States Senator from Missouri. Benton served in the Senate from 1821 to 1851, becoming the first member of that body to serve five terms. He was born in North Carolina.

Thomas Bryant is an independent historian living in South Carolina.

Thomas U.P. Charlton (1779-1835) was a prominent citizen of Savannah, GA. He served as a circuit judge, a member of the Georgia legislature, state attorney general, and mayor of Savannah.

Dr. Thomas Cooper (1759-1839) was a physician, professor, scholar, and political pamphleteer. He was president of South Carolina College (now The University of South Carolina) from 1821-1834.

Thomas J. Crane has been representing individuals in employment actions for over twenty years. He graduated from Texas Christian University and Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. Licensed in Texas and Louisiana, he has appeared in federal and state court, before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the MSPB, and various administrative courts. He is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer. He served 12 months in the Iraq war.

Tom Daniel holds a Ph.D in Music Education from Auburn University. He is a husband, father of four cats and a dog, and a college band director who lives back in the woods of Alabama with a cotton field right outside his bedroom window. His grandfather once told him he was "Scotch-Irish," and Tom has been trying to live up to those lofty Southern standards ever since.

Thomas Cooper De Leon (1839-1914) was the Jewish "Blind Laureate of the Lost Cause" and a journalist, author, and playwright. One brother, Edwin De Leon, was the famous Confederate diplomat and writer, the other, David Camden De Leon, was Confederate Surgeon-General.

Thomas DiLorenzo is an economics professor at Loyola University in Maryland and is the author of The Problem with Socialism, The Real Lincoln, Lincoln Unmasked, and Hamilton's Curse.

Timothy A. Duskin is from Northern Virginia. He has a B.A. degree in history from American Christian College, Tulsa, Oklahoma and a M.A. degree in international relations from the University of Oklahoma. He worked for 22 years as an Archives Technician at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He has also worked as a Writer for the U.S. Taxpayers’ Alliance in Vienna, Virginia and as a Research Assistant for the Plymouth Rock Foundation in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He has a strong interest in and devotion to history and is active in a number of historical organizations.

Thomas R. Ellen is a writer in Charleston, South Carolina. You can find more of his work on his Substack, The Metic.

Dr. Thomas Fleming is the former editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture and president of The Rockford Institute. He is now the head of the Fleming Foundation and the author of several books including The Morality of Everyday Life.

Tom Hervey is a North Carolinian who now resides in the Upstate of South Carolina, where he works in the clinical engineering field. Though his education and professional experience are rather of a technical than an academic nature, he retains a strong personal interest in all things Southern, especially questions of history and economics.

Travis Holt is an independent farmer and historian in Arkansas.

Thomas H. Hubert, a native of Tennessee who grew up in Alabama, is a retired scholar, poet, and business person living near Raleigh, North Carolina. He received a Ph. D. in English from the University of Georgia in 1975 with a concentration in American literature; his dissertation was on Allen Tate’s poetry. During the academic phase of his career, he taught at universities in the south and midwest.

Terry Hulsey is a former computer programmer now retired in Guanajuato, Mexico. His two major achievements, his two daughters, enjoy successful careers in New York City. His study of sortition resulted in The Constitution of Non-State Government: Field Guide to Texas Secession, available through Shotwell Publishing and elsewhere.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the author of the Declaration of Independence, the founder of the University of Virginia, the Governor of Virginia, Minister to France, United States Secretary of State, Vice-President of the United States, and Third President of the United States.

Troy Kickler is the Founding Director of the North Carolina History Project and Editor of NorthCarolinahistory.org. He holds an M.S. in Social Studies Education from North Carolina A&T State University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee. His dissertation was “Black Children and Northern Missionaries, Southern Conservatives, Freedmen’s Bureau Agents, and Freedmen in Reconstruction Tennessee.” He has taught at the University of Tennessee, Barton College, and North Carolina State University.

Thomas H. Landess (1931-2012) was an author, essayist, and political commentator who taught literature and creative writing for 24 years.

Tobias J. Lanz teaches politics at the University of South Carolina. He is editor of Beyond Capitalism and Socialism (IHS Press)

Trevor Laurie holds graduate degrees from two Northern universities. A veteran of many years of military and government service, he is now working to reconnect with his Southern agrarian roots and to preserve that unique cultural heritage.

Thomas Naylor (1936-2012) was a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, the author of thirty books, and a founder of the Second Vermont Republic.

Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) was considered to be one of the greatest writers during his age. He was descended from two of the most prominent families in Virginia. He served as Ambassador to Italy during World War I.

Tom Rash is a writer and teacher in Ashville, NC and a board member of Thomas Wolfe Memorial Advisory Committee, Inc. He is working on a documentary of Wolfe's life and influence.

Tom Riley was born in Buffalo, but through study has become a Rebel from Yankeeland. He works as a freelance copywriter and is the author of Love Poems of a Hatemonger and The Ghost of Biden’s Brain.

Ted Roberts is an Alabama writer who calls himself a scribbler on the roof.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was the 26th President of the United States.

Thomas Sheeley is an internationally recognized classical guitarist and Professor of Music at Northern Arizona University.

Tom Watson (1856-1922) was a lawyer, newspaperman, and United States Senator from Georgia and a leading populist in the United States.

Tony Woodlief is an author living in North Carolina.

Ulrich B. Phillips (1877-1934) was a pioneering historian on Southern economics, politics, labor, and culture.

Vann Boseman is an independent historian in Florida.

Varina Davis (1826-1906) was the wife of Jefferson Davis.

Vito Mussomeli is a retired attorney living in Texas. He has spoken and written extensively on the Confederate Constitution and the Confederate legal system.

Valerie Protopapas is an independent historian and the former editor of The Southern Cavalry Review, the journal of The Stuart-Mosby Historical Society.

Vaughn Sullivan is an independent historian.

Ward S. Allen is the Hargis Professor of English (Emeritus) at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.

William Horatio Barnes (1832-1879) was an historian and author. He was called the "American Plutarch" by his contemporaries for his extensive work on American political biographies.

Bill Cawthon (1946-2016) was an independent historian in Eufaula, Alabama.

William E. Dodd (1869-1940) was a preeminent Southern historian and American diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933-1937, had a ship named after him during World War II, and was a critically acclaimed writer.

Wes Franklin is an independent historian born, raised, and still living in the Missouri Ozarks.

William Freehoff (1918-2003) was a newspaper editor and broadcast journalist.

Walt Garlington is a chemical engineer turned writer (and, when able, a planter). He makes his home in Louisiana and is editor of the 'Confiteri: A Southern Perspective' web site.

William Robertson Garrett (1839-1904) was a Southern historian and author.

William Gill is an author and political correspondent. His books include Why Reagan Won: The Conservative Movement 1964-1981.

William J. Hardee (1815-1873) was one of the leading Confederate general officers in the War. His writings on tactics and strategy were used by both sides in the conflict.

Wayne Hogan is a freelance writer from Tennessee.

William H. Hunter, MD (1924-2008) was a general practitioner in Clemson, SC.

Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy was born and reared in Mississippi. Donnie moved to Louisiana at the age of 19. He received his bachelor’s degree form the University of Louisiana, Monroe, La. and graduated Charlotte Memorial Medical Center School of Anesthesia, Charlotte, NC. Donnie and his twin brother, Ron, are best known for their bestselling book, The South Was Right! having sold more than 130,000 copies as of 2014. The Kennedy Twins have written eight other books since the release of The South Was Right! as well as editing, annotating and republishing an 1825 textbook on the Constitution by William Rawle. Donnie is the author of Myths of American Slavery and Rekilling Lincoln, (release date, Spring 2015). Both Donnie and his twin brother have served as commander of the Louisiana Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. They have received awards and special recognition from numerous conservative and Southern organizations. The Kennedy Twins have been interviewed by numerous media outlets such as British Broadcasting Corporation, French National T.V., Al Jazeera, and numerous American radio and T.V. hosts.

Won Kim was a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C.

Warren Leamon (1938-2017) held a Ph.D in English from University College in Dublin, Ireland. He taught English at the University of Georgia and was an author, poet, and literary critic.

William Lekcy (1838 – 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist. His major work was an eight-volume History of England during the Eighteenth Century.

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya is the Walter E. Williams Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. She is the author of Economic Freedom and Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Redressing Historical Injustice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, with David Gordon) and “A Critique of Equality Legislation in Liberal Market Economies” (Journal of Libertarian Studies, 2021).

William Obenchain was an engineer on the staff of Robert E. Lee. He was a great mathematician, a rare scholar, and a chivalric gentleman. He was for a quarter of a century the president of Ogden College, and through his tutelage and lofty character he made a profound impression upon the students and the community.

Wayne Pease Jr. lives in Joplin, MO with his lovely wife Jessica and is currently writing a book on black Confederate soldiers.

William was born in the last year of silver money. His ancestors go back to the beginning of time. He believes not in coincidences and small worlds but in miracles. He is the father of four and only regrets the children he didn't have. He knows in the end, "the truth will out" because his father told him so. Every story he has written is true, though truth may reside in the mind of a child being told a story by a great-grandparent who did not want the story to vanish. His favorite expression is, "Good does not need evil in order for good to survive, but evil must have good in order for evil to survive. Do not be the good enabling evil".

William J. Quirk was a law professor at the University of South Carolina.

William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was the leading man of letters in the antebellum South.

William Hayes Ward (1835-1916) was as Massachusetts born clergyman, editor, author, and director of the American Oriental Society.

William J. Watkins, Jr. is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the book Crossroads for Liberty: Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America's First Constitution. He received his B.A. in history and German summa cum laude from Clemson University and his J.D. cum laude from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Mr. Watkins is a former law clerk to Judge William B. Traxler, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and he is President of the Greenville, SC, Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society. He has served as a prosecutor and defense lawyer, and has practiced in various state and federal courts.

William Wilson is a distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

W. Kirk Wood holds a Ph.D in American History from the University of South Carolina. He taught history at Alabama State University from 1986-2010 and is the author of two books on nullification.

Yuri Maltsev is an Austrian school economist and economic historian. He is a Professor of Economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin and a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Zachary Garris holds a Master of Divinity from Reformed Theological Seminary (Jackson, Mississippi) and a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School. He is editor of Dabney on Fire: A Theology of Parenting, Education, Feminism, and Government and writes at KnowingScripture.com and TeachDiligently.com.