The Southern Tradition in the 21st Century


The Abbeville Institute was founded in 2002 in order to explore what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition.

In that time, many of our students have received advanced degrees, our affiliated scholars have written dozens of books, while our educational programs have reached millions of people around the globe.

We have much to celebrate as an organization, but little did we know in 2002 that the culture, traditions, symbols, and history of the South would become the main focus of the current culture war.

What does the Southern tradition mean for the 21st century? What value can modern Americans find in the American South?


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Will the Stone the Builders Rejected Become the Cornerstone?

Don Livingston discusses the future of the Southern political tradition.

Continuity and the Southern Tradition


Brion McClanahan addresses the continuity between the Old South, the New South, and the Modern South

Lost in Acres of Insanity


Carey Roberts on the Southern Tradition and modern Woke America

Example Curriculum

  Thomas Jefferson: University Founder and Virginia Rebel by Bill Wilson
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  Will the Stone the Builders Rejected Become the Cornerstone? by Don Livingston
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  Lost in Acres of Insanity by Carey Roberts
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  Continuity and the Southern Tradition by Brion McClanahan
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  Can Southern Conservatism Survive? by Paul Gottfried
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  Reflections on Southern Identity in the 21st Century by Jeff Rogers
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  Southern Music and the Digital Death Sentence of the 21st Century by Tom Daniel
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  Memory, Imagination, and Reason by Clyde Wilson
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  Partial and Intriguing Victories: The Southern Tradition in the 21st Century by Brad Green
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  Taming the Administrative State by William Watkins
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  This Happy Land by Michael Givens
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