Southern Culture and History

A very exciting find concerning the Confederacy. Being a Confederate sympathizer is a lot like being a Catholic - one is very often misunderstood and criticized by people who don't know their history.

"There was no surrender at Appomattox, and no withdrawal from the field which committed our people and their children to a heritage of shame and dishonor. No cowardice on any battlefield could be as base and shameful as the silent acquiescence in the scheme which was teaching the children in their homes and schools that the commercial value of slavery was the cause of the war, that prisoners of war held in the South were starved and treated with a barbarous inhumanity, that Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were traitors to their country and false to their oaths, that the young men who left everything to resist invasion, and climbed the slopes of Gettysburg and died willingly on a hundred fields were rebels against a righteous government.”

The Rev. James Power Smith, last surviving member of Jackson’s staff, 1907

The League of the South Institute for the Study of Southern Culture and History (LSI) is the educational arm of the Southern independence movement. Made up of the South's finest unreconstructed scholars, the LSI is dedicated to combating the demonisation of the South and its culture and heritage in the academic arena. The Institute already has an impressive track record--numerous summer institutes, a growing pamphlet series on Southern Studies, Hedge School Seminars, and numerous books and articles published by LSI scholars--but we intend to do much more. As the intellectual leaders of the Southern movement, LSI members and associates seek to restore a solid cultural foundation which will nourish and sustain a free and prosperous people. Without such a foundation, all other facets of the Southern movement--political, social, and economic--will not flourish.

We invite you to support the LSI as the South's best hope for properly educating Southern youth and for countering the political correctness that has infected our educational institutions all across Dixie. Unless we pass on our traditions to the young, the hope of restoring our ancient Christian liberties will die with us.