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Secession Studies, Out in the Open
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Today’s idea: Secession remains a sensitive subject on campus because of its racial connotations — so much so that Southern scholars quietly gather on their own to study and discuss it.
A vivid portrait of John C. Calhoun painted by G.P.A. Healy around 1846 is on show in ‘1846: Portrait of the Nation,’ at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.National Portrait Gallery John C. Calhoun: Breaking up is justified to do.
History | In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Ben Terris profiles Donald W. Livingston, an Emory University philosophy professor, and his Abbeville Institute, named after the South Carolina birthplace of John C. Calhoun (right), the slavery and states’ rights advocate who was the country’s seventh vice president.
The usually low-profile institute, founded in 2003 and claiming more than 60 associated scholars, is for the first time publicly advertising one of its conferences; it’s on secession and state nullification of federal laws in February in Charleston, S.C.
While the Southern Poverty Law Center says the institute’s work borders on white supremacy, the academics say it’s a way to discuss Southern topics misrepresented in today’s classrooms. Or, as Livingston puts it, to examine Southern tradition “in terms of its own inner light” rather than “as a function of the ideological needs of others” — “as if you had programs of Jewish studies explored from the point of view of Catholics, or worse, of Nazis.”
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NYT
Today’s idea: Secession remains a sensitive subject on campus because of its racial connotations — so much so that Southern scholars quietly gather on their own to study and discuss it.
A vivid portrait of John C. Calhoun painted by G.P.A. Healy around 1846 is on show in ‘1846: Portrait of the Nation,’ at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.National Portrait Gallery John C. Calhoun: Breaking up is justified to do.
History | In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Ben Terris profiles Donald W. Livingston, an Emory University philosophy professor, and his Abbeville Institute, named after the South Carolina birthplace of John C. Calhoun (right), the slavery and states’ rights advocate who was the country’s seventh vice president.
The usually low-profile institute, founded in 2003 and claiming more than 60 associated scholars, is for the first time publicly advertising one of its conferences; it’s on secession and state nullification of federal laws in February in Charleston, S.C.
While the Southern Poverty Law Center says the institute’s work borders on white supremacy, the academics say it’s a way to discuss Southern topics misrepresented in today’s classrooms. Or, as Livingston puts it, to examine Southern tradition “in terms of its own inner light” rather than “as a function of the ideological needs of others” — “as if you had programs of Jewish studies explored from the point of view of Catholics, or worse, of Nazis.”
(Continued here.)
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