NINTH ANNUAL ABBEVILLE SCHOLARS’ CONFERENCE
THE SOUTH AND AMERICA’S WARS
The Cape Fear Club
Wilmington, North Carolina
February 24-27, 2011
TOPIC: Southerners are rightly known as a people who value the military arts; have excelled in them; and have been inordinately represented in America s military history. What is not so apparent is the strong, if not predominant, tradition of Southern opposition to foreign war. This view of the military is defensive, embodying the virtue of loyalty and the duty to respond to offenses against honor. Southern leaders have perhaps been less motivated than other Americans by the ideological rationales given for U.S. wars ( freeing the slaves, saving the world for democracy, etc.). Many respectable and eloquent Southern voices have been raised against most U.S. wars, and on grounds different from those of the anti-war left.
“American Colonial Resistance to British Imperial Wars,” Carey Roberts.
“John Randolph versus the War Hawks,” John Devanny.
“Nathaniel Macon’s Resistance to the War of 1812,” Troy Kickler
“John C. Calhoun: Anti-Imperialist,” Clyde Wilson.
“Virginia’s Reluctant Secessionists, Dutiful Sons, Fierce Warriors,” Jonathan White.
“Southern Critics of American Wars and American Empire: 1865-1912,” Joseph Stromberg.
“The South and America’s Wars for Righteousness,” Richard Gamble.
“Gnostics of War: Richard Weaver’s Traditionalist Conservative Critique of Modern Warfare,” Jay Langdale.
“Perpetual War for Perpetual Union: Kendall and Bradford on Lincoln’s Imperial Rhetoric,” Daniel McCarthy.
“Other Southern Resistance to Foreign Wars,” Roundtable Discussion.
“Why Southerners Fight and Why Southerners Don’t Fight,” Roundtable Discussion.
Cost, Accommodation, Tours: Lectures in The Cape Fear Club, a private club, tracing its origins to1852, and having no fear of cigars. Rooms in the Wilmingtonian hotel, a short walk away. If booked before December 24, rates are $79 (Thursday) and $115 per night (Friday and Saturday), for a double or single. Ask for the special rate at (910) 343 1800. Other hotels ranging from $53-99 are within 3 miles of the Cape Fear Club. http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org.Conference fee of $125 includes two suppers, one dinner, and tour. http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org. Partial scholarships available for students. Make and mail checks to Abbeville Institute, P.O.Box 10, McClellanville, S.C. 29458.
Wilmington was the last port of the Confederacy. Walking tours of Confederate Wilmington are offered. A short drive away is Fort Fischer under whose protective guns the blockade was run Queries: contactus@abbevilleinstitute.org, or (843) 323 0690.
The Cape Fear Club
Wilmington, North Carolina
February 24-27, 2011
TOPIC: Southerners are rightly known as a people who value the military arts; have excelled in them; and have been inordinately represented in America s military history. What is not so apparent is the strong, if not predominant, tradition of Southern opposition to foreign war. This view of the military is defensive, embodying the virtue of loyalty and the duty to respond to offenses against honor. Southern leaders have perhaps been less motivated than other Americans by the ideological rationales given for U.S. wars ( freeing the slaves, saving the world for democracy, etc.). Many respectable and eloquent Southern voices have been raised against most U.S. wars, and on grounds different from those of the anti-war left.
“American Colonial Resistance to British Imperial Wars,” Carey Roberts.
“John Randolph versus the War Hawks,” John Devanny.
“Nathaniel Macon’s Resistance to the War of 1812,” Troy Kickler
“John C. Calhoun: Anti-Imperialist,” Clyde Wilson.
“Virginia’s Reluctant Secessionists, Dutiful Sons, Fierce Warriors,” Jonathan White.
“Southern Critics of American Wars and American Empire: 1865-1912,” Joseph Stromberg.
“The South and America’s Wars for Righteousness,” Richard Gamble.
“Gnostics of War: Richard Weaver’s Traditionalist Conservative Critique of Modern Warfare,” Jay Langdale.
“Perpetual War for Perpetual Union: Kendall and Bradford on Lincoln’s Imperial Rhetoric,” Daniel McCarthy.
“Other Southern Resistance to Foreign Wars,” Roundtable Discussion.
“Why Southerners Fight and Why Southerners Don’t Fight,” Roundtable Discussion.
Cost, Accommodation, Tours: Lectures in The Cape Fear Club, a private club, tracing its origins to1852, and having no fear of cigars. Rooms in the Wilmingtonian hotel, a short walk away. If booked before December 24, rates are $79 (Thursday) and $115 per night (Friday and Saturday), for a double or single. Ask for the special rate at (910) 343 1800. Other hotels ranging from $53-99 are within 3 miles of the Cape Fear Club. http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org.Conference fee of $125 includes two suppers, one dinner, and tour. http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org. Partial scholarships available for students. Make and mail checks to Abbeville Institute, P.O.Box 10, McClellanville, S.C. 29458.
Wilmington was the last port of the Confederacy. Walking tours of Confederate Wilmington are offered. A short drive away is Fort Fischer under whose protective guns the blockade was run Queries: contactus@abbevilleinstitute.org, or (843) 323 0690.
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