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See left-hand column below for free downloads of important Primary Source Documents starting with the election of Lincoln in November, 1860 through the beginning of the War Between the States. They include the most important speeches and documents of the secession debate in the South as Southern states called conventions, debated the issue then voted to secede from the Union. There is also A Detailed Chronology from the same period, Scholarly Essays, The History and Literature of the South 77-Volume DVD/VHS Series, The Bonnie Blue Gazette e-zine and other historical material

Since 24 March 2004

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  15 Outstanding DVDs! 

• Dr. Clyde Wilson - 9 volumes

• Dr. Don Livingston - 6 volumes

Each DVD only $9.95 and well-over an hour long, with menus, scene selection and extra material

About Dr. Clyde Wilson

Dr. Wilson is editor of the Papers of
John C. Calhoun, and a professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He has published several books including Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew, The Essential Calhoun (editor), A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and His Achievements, The Meaning of South Carolina History: Essays in Honor of George C. Rogers Jr (co-editor), American Historians, 1607-1865 (Dictionary of Literary Biography), Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture,
and scores of articles. He is an unquestioned expert on the War Between the States, Reconstruction, and John C. Calhoun.

Dr. Wilson's volumes include

Volume 3
Part I,
The War Between the States:
Its Causes and Conduct

Volume 4
Part II,
The War Between the States:
Its Causes and Conduct

Volume 16
John C. Calhoun: Last of the Founding Fathers

Volume 18
John C. Calhoun: Prophet

Volume 25
The Causes of the Late War of Independence

Volume 26
The Conduct of the Late War of Independence

Volume 49
Reconstruction

Volume 53
John C. Calhoun Seminar, Part 1

Volume 54
John C. Calhoun Seminar, Part 2

About Dr. Donald Livingston

Dr. Livingston is a professor of Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta. He is a renowned scholar of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, economist and historian, David Hume, and has written several books including Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy and Hume's Philosophy of Common Life; he is co-editor of Hume, A Re-evaluation; Liberty in Hume's "History of England"; and Hume as Philosopher of Society, Politics, and History. Dr. Livingston has also written and spoken extensively on the right of secession, and is the driving force behind the highly respected Abbeville Institute.

Dr. Livingston's volumes include

Volume 10
Secession and the
American Constitutional Tradition

Volume 20
The Philosophical Meaning of the Confederacy

Volume 33
The Fourteenth Amendment

Volume 37
Part 1,
Secession

Volume 38
Part 2,
Secession

Volume 45
The Ideological Use of Slavery
in American Liberalism

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• The War Between the States and Reconstruction, 3-DVD set by
  Dr. Clyde Wilson, only $14.95 each

• Gone But Not Forgotten, a large Confederate Funeral in Charleston, SC with the placing of remains in coffins, church service where the coffins lay in state, and period procession in which hundreds march from the Battery to Magnolia Cemetery, VHS, $15.95

• Why Black Southerners Fought for the South in the War Between the States, by distinguished professor Edward C. Smith, who is black, VHS, $15.95

• About Gene Kizer,
  creator of this web site

• Southern view argued well
  by Gene Kizer in pointed
  exchange with distinguished
  historian Richard Jensen
  on the causes of the
  War Between the States,
  September, 2005

The
38 Best Volumes
from

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at $8.95 each

 Volume 1

Part I of
William Faulkner, Southern Writer
by Dr. Jim Meriwether
(VHS only)

Dr. Meriwether is a well-known
William Faulkner scholar and English professor emeritus at the University of
South Carolina. He actually knew Faulkner and spent time with him, then later cataloged Faulkner's papers as a young scholar at Princeton.

 Volume 2

Part II of
William Faulkner, Southern Writer
by Dr. Jim Meriwether
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 1

 Volume 3

Part I of
The War Between the States:
Its Causes and Conduct
by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson
(DVD or VHS)

Dr. Wilson is editor of the Papers of
John C. Calhoun, and professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He has published several books including Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew, The Essential Calhoun (editor), A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and His Achievements, The Meaning of South Carolina History: Essays in Honor of George C. Rogers Jr (co-editor), American Historians, 1607-1865 (Dictionary of Literary Biography), Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture,
and scores of articles. He is an unquestioned expert on the War Between the States and Reconstruction, and John C. Calhoun.

 Volume 4

Part II of
The War Between the States:
Its Causes and Conduct
by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 3

 Volume 10

Secession and the
American Constitutional Tradition
by Dr. Donald Livingston
(DVD or VHS)

Dr. Livingston is a professor of Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta. He is a renowned scholar of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, economist and historian, David Hume, and has written several books including Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy and Hume's Philosophy of Common Life; he is co-editor of Hume, A Re-evaluation; Liberty in Hume's "History of England"; and Hume as Philosopher of Society, Politics, and History. Dr. Livingston has also written and spoken extensively on the right of secession, and is the driving force behind the highly respected Abbeville Institute.

 Volume 11

Part I of
Charleston Literature
by Dr. David Aiken
(VHS only)

Dr. Aiken is a professor of English at
The Citadel, and the College of Charleston, and a noted William Gilmore Simms scholar. His published books include the editing of Simms's eyewitness account of Sherman's burning of Columbia, SC: A City Laid Waste, The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia, published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2005. Dr. Aiken has lectured on the rich literary heritage of Charleston, South Carolina and the Holy City's many outstanding poets and writers.

 Volume 12

Part II of
Charleston Literature
by Dr. David Aiken
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 11

 Volume 16

John C. Calhoun:
Last of the Founding Fathers
by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 3

 Volume 18

John C. Calhoun: Prophet
by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 3

 Volume 19

James Henley Thornwell
and the Promise of Southern Theology
by Dr. William Wilson
(VHS only)

Dr. William M. Wilson is an assistant dean at the University of Virginia, College of Arts and Sciences, and a lecturer in the Religious Studies Department. His specialities are philosophical theology, modern Christian thought, and religion and literature.

 Volume 23

Reclaiming Faulkner,
Part One
by Dr. James E. Kibler
(VHS only)

Dr. Kibler is a noted William Gilmore Simms scholar, a poet, novelist and long-time English professor at the University of Georgia. He is author of many, many books including Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms (editor), Child to the Waters, Walking Towards Home, Memory's Keep, Sherman's March from the Sea, Poems from Scorched Earth, Poetry and the Practical, William Gilmore Simms: A Reference Guide, and Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story, which was proclaimed an instant Southern classic. Dr. Kibler is also the author of scores of articles.

 Volume 24

Reclaiming Faulkner,
Part Two
by Dr. James E. Kibler
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 23

 Volume 25

The Causes of the
Late War of Independence
by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 3

 Volume 26

The Conduct of the
Late War of Independence
by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 3

 Volume 29

Getting Even:
The Morality of Revenge
by Dr. Thomas Fleming
(VHS only)

Dr. Fleming is a noted classics scholar, president of The Rockford Institute, and editor of Chronicles magazine. He is the author of several books including The Politics of Human Nature, Montenegro, The Divided Land, and The Morality of Everyday Life. He is an animated speaker with a commanding voice and articulation, and his lectures on the influence of the classics -- the study of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome -- on Southern culture, are riveting.

 Volume 30

Fighting, Feuding, and Dueling
in the Old South
by Dr. Thomas Fleming
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 29

 Volume 31

Southern Manners and Honour
by Dr. William Wilson
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 19

 Volume 33

The Fourteenth Amendment
by Dr. Donald Livingston
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 10

 Volume 34

The CSS Hunley
by Mr. Randy Burbage

(VHS only)

Includes extensive film footage of
the famous Confederate submarine,
CSS Hunley, on the ocean floor before
she was raised

Mr. Randy Burbage is a member of the CSS Hunley Commission for the State of South Carolina, and has been instrumental in preserving and promoting the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley. Mr. Burbage is a natural leader and has been involved in a leadership capacity with reenacting and promoting Southern history for over 25 years. He is currently Commander of the South Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and a popular, personable speaker.

 Volume 37

Part I of
Secession
by Dr. Donald Livingston
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 10

 Volume 38

Part II of
Secession
by Dr. Donald Livingston
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 10

 Volume 41

Part I of
William Gilmore Simms
by Dr. John C. Guilds
(VHS only)

Dr. John Caldwell Guilds is perhaps the foremost William Gilmore Simms scholar alive today. He wrote the outstanding biography of Simms, Simms, A Literary Life, and is editor of Long Years of Neglect: The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms. Volumes 41 and 42 are fascinating lectures, and in the audience were several Simms scholars with excellent questions and comments, like Dr. James B. Meriwether, featured in Volumes 1 and 2, and Dr. James Everett Kibler, featured in Volumes 23 and 24.

 Volume 42

Part II of
William Gilmore Simms
by Dr. John C. Guilds
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 41

 Volume 43

Part I of
The Theology of the South:
The Fruits of Orthodoxy and Apostasy
by Rev. Steve Wilkins
(VHS only)

Rev. Steve Wilkins is pastor of the
Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church, Monroe, Louisiana

 Volume 44

Part II of
The Theology of the South
by Rev. Steve Wilkins
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 43

 Volume 45

The Ideological Use of Slavery
in American Liberalism
by Dr. Donald Livingston
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 10

 Volume 46

The Confederate Constitution
by Dr. Marshall DeRosa
(VHS only)

Dr. DeRosa is a professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University, and an esteemed constitutional scholar. His book, The Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism, is a definitive study of the Confederate Constitution. His other books include The Politics of Dissolution: The Quest for a National Identity and the American Civil War, The Ninth Amendment and the Politics of Creative Jurisprudence, and An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (editor).

 Volume 47

M. E. Bradford
by Dr. Mark Winchell
(VHS only)

Dr. Mark Winchell is a professor of English at Clemson University, and an authority on historically-correct films such as Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil, Victor Fleming's Gone With The Wind, and Ronald F. Maxwell's Gettysburg, and Gods and Generals. Dr. Winchell is author of over 120 articles, and several books including The Vanderbilt Tradition: Essays in Honor of Thomas Daniel Young, Talmadge: A Political Legacy, A Politician's Life, and Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism.

 Volume 49

Reconstruction
by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 3

 Volume 50

North and South:
the Philosophical Divide
by Dr. Thomas Fleming
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 29

 Volume 51

The Despot's Heel:
Maryland's Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1861-1880
by Dr. Bart Talbert
(VHS only)

 Volume 52

The Theological Case for Secession
by Dr. William Wilson
(VHS only)

For short bio, see Volume 19

 Volume 58

An Evening of Antebellum Music,
Part One
Starring world-famous performers
Beau Palmer, Lisa Palmer,
& Kimberly Jackson
(DVD or VHS)

 Volume 59

An Evening of Antebellum Music,
Part Two: The Poetry and Music of
John Hill Hewitt
Starring Beau Palmer, Lisa Palmer,
& Kimberly Jackson, with
Rev. Jim Schoolfield narrating
(DVD or VHS)

 Volume 60

Flannery O'Connor
by Mary-Barbara Tate
(DVD or VHS)

Mrs. Tate was a good friend of Flannery O'Connor's and knew her well. Mrs. Tate spent many hours with O'Connor at O'Connor's home, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Georgia. She is a charming and articulate speaker whom one can't help but love, and appreciate.

from Literary Traveler . . .

Mary Barbara Tate, a member of the Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation board of directors, fondly remembers her visits to Andalusia during O'Connor's time there. A professor of English at Georgia College and State University for twenty-three years, Tate belonged to a reading group that met every week at the farmhouse to discuss Southern literature chosen by O'Connor.

 Volume 61

Margaret Mitchell and
Gone With The Wind
by Dr. Mark Winchell
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 47

 Volume 64

Joel Chandler Harris
and Uncle Remus
by Dr. Mark Winchell
(DVD or VHS)

For short bio, see Volume 47

 Volume 65

Alexander Stephens and a Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States
by Historian Joseph Stromberg
(DVD or VHS)

Joseph R. Stromberg holds the
JoAnn B. Rothbard chair in history at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, and is historian-in-residence there. He lectures frequently on various topics in Southern history including the constitutionality of secession, as well as economic issues.

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A Detailed CHRONOLOGY
of Secession, with Bibliography
Click here for an excellent, lengthy chronology that includes not only the secession debate in the South, 1860-1861, but such detail as the calling of secession conventions in the different Southern states, the actual convention votes for/against secession, the dates of ratification by the people in their various states with the actual vote totals for/against, the events happening on the national level as the Confederate government is organized at the same time that Lincoln takes over as U.S. president, and all things pertaining to the beginning of the War Between the States. There is also a bibliography divided into primary and secondary sources.

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  Essays  

• Why Southerners Felt They Were the Heirs of the Founding Fathers
   

• The Documents of the Secession Debate in the South
   

• Themes of the Secession Debate in the South
   

• A True Founding Document: South Carolina's Declaration of Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
   

• As Powerful as the Declaration of Independence: South Carolina's Address of the People of South Carolina, Assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States
   

• "Pouring Out the Blood of Her Sons Like Water on Almost Every Battlefield" of the Revolution: Virginia's Botetourt Resolutions of Judge John J. Allen

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   Coming Soon  

• Esteemed historian Dr. Eugene D. Genovese's UNCOMPLIMENTARY assessment of modern politically correct scholarship on the South and WBTS: "We are witnessing a cultural and political atrocity..."
   

• A review of Charles B. Dew's book, Apostles of Disunion, Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (sic)
   

• A summary of the excellent book, Black Bondage in the North
   

• An article on the laws of the many Northern and Western states that had FORBID free blacks from living there including Lincoln's own Illinois
   

• Dr. Charles W. Ramsdell and his acclaimed piece, Lincoln and Fort Sumter, in which he argues persuasively that Lincoln knew he was starting the war when he sent troops to Charleston in April, 1861, during the country's most critical hour
   

• The causes of the WBTS in articles written by Southerners who were there
   

• New England's secessionist convention: The Hartford Convention

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Primary Source Documents

(Official Secession Documents, Gubernatorial Messages, Farewell Speeches, Letters and Addresses of Commissioners, General Speeches, Other Special Documents)
 

  Official Secession Documents 

(Declarations, Addresses, Resolutions and Reports that speak officially for a state or county)

• Address of the People of South Carolina, Assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States, adopted 24 December 1860 (includes background; author Robert Barnwell Rhett)
   

• Address to the People of Texas, 30 March 1861 (includes background)
   

• The Botetourt Resolutions of
  Judge John J. Allen, adopted 10 December 1860 (includes background an