The Essential Southern Podcast

Jan 17 2025 368 ep. 34 mins 215
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The Abbeville Institutes is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition.

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Ep. 18: The Bard of the South Carolina Low Country

Jan 17 2025 31 mins  
Archibald Rutledge has been forgotten. This is a travesty that needs correction. Support the Institute: https://abbevilleinstitute.salsalabs.org/DonorForm1/index.html

Ep. 17: The Danger Still Not Over

Jan 10 2025 31 mins  
Ep. 17: Edmund Pendleton wrote "The Danger Not Over" following the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1801. William Watkins brings that essay into 2025. Support the Institute: https://abbevilleinstitute.salsalabs.org/DonorForm1/index.html

Ep. 16: The First (Virginia) Thanksgiving

Nov 29 2024 31 mins  
American Thanksgiving wasn't born in Massachusetts. We can thank Virginia for this important holiday.

Ep. 15: Secession and Reconciliation

Oct 31 2024 50 mins  
Modern activist historians think "reconciliation" is a pejorative, but for most Americans in the early 20th century, it was a necessary part of healing. This included histories written by Southerners. We discuss one of those books on this episode of The Essential Southern Podcast.

Ep. 14: Why Southern History?

Aug 10 2024 37 mins  
Why did Southerners in the early twentieth century think they needed to write their own history? Support the Institute: https://abbevilleinstitute.salsalabs.org/DonorForm1/index.html

Ep. 13: Arlington Reconciliation

Jun 28 2024 39 mins  
How did Americans think about the Arlington Confederate or Reconciliation monument in 1914? They clearly told you, and it isn't what the woke cancel culture folks want you to believe.

Ep. 12: St. Elmo and Southern Women

May 31 2024 33 mins  
Augusta Jane Evans's St. Elmo was one of the best selling novels of the 19th Century. You would not know that today, but for generations, women read it and handed it down to their daughters and female family members. Why is it blacklisted? You'll hear. Donate to the Abbeville Institute: https://abbevilleinstitute.salsalabs.org/DonorForm1/index.html

Ep. 11: The South and History

Apr 26 2024 34 mins  
E. Merton Coulter was one of the more prominent Southern historians of the 20th century. In 1935, he explained why the South lagged behind the North in the writing of history until the 1860s, and then why the South needed to write its own history.

Ep. 10: The Southern Poet and His Tradition

Apr 05 2024 36 mins  
Donald Davidson wrote an essay in 1932 arguing for the influence of the Southern poet in the Southern tradition while concurrently blasting the Northern Progressive for his destruction of post-War Southern culture.

Ep. 9: That This Nation May Endure--The Need for Political Regionalism

Feb 25 2024 33 mins  
Donald Davidson's essay "That This Nation May Endure--The Need for Political Regionalism" in the 1936 book, "Who Owns America" is a stark reminder that the issues Americans face today are not new. Centralization and "New England imperialism" have long been a problem for the majority of Americans. Support the Institute: https://abbevilleinstitute.s