"The Cause of the South..."
Future Editions

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Life and Works of Howell Cobb

• Memorial Volume of Howell Cobb
  • S. Boykin, editor
  • published by J. L. M. Curry, Atlanta, Ga., 1879

Supporting Works

• The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
  • by Jefferson Davis
  • published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1881
• The Real Lincoln
  • by Charles L. C. Minor
  • published by Everett Waddey Company, 1904, and Atkins-Rankin Co., 1928
• The Federalist
  • by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
  • published in various media, 1787-1788
• Democracy in America
  • by Alexis de Tocqueville
  • 1835, 1840
  • contingent upon finding a suitable translation in the public domain or for which publication permission can be reasonably obtained
• Additional books, previously listed on the Southern Traditionalist Resources page, prepared by Jim Langcuster. This page seems to be obsolete now. The commentary is Mr. Langcuster's. We list these here as a kind of "to-do" list for ourselves to consider these for future publication.
  • Bledsoe, Albert T., "The War Between the States, or Was Secession a Constitutional Right Prior to the War of 1861-1865?" An excellent introduction to states rights and the constitutionality of secession.
  • Calhoun, John C., "Disquisition on Government". Calhoun, considered by many to be the greatest political theorist in American history, outlines his theory of concurrent majorities.
  • Calhoun, John C., "Union and Liberty". A compilation of Calhoun's major political treatises by the Liberty Fund.
  • Curry, Jabez L. M., "Civil History of the Government of the Confederate States, With Some Personnel Reminiscenses". A spirited defense of the noble men who drafted the Confederate States Constitution by a noted Alabama legislator and educator who represents the Heart of Dixie in Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C.
  • Curry, Jabez L.M., "The Southern States of the American Union, Considered in Their Relations to the Constitutions of the United States and to the Resulting Union". Sort of a Readers Digest condensed version of Stephens' "A Constitutional View of the War Between the States". Like Bledsoe, Curry offers an eloquent defense of the sovereignty of the states and the constitutional right of secession.
  • Davis, Varina H., "Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Confederate States: A Memoir". The Confederate first lady's passionate memoir of her beloved husband, our first and only president. Offers some particularly trenchant insight into states rights and secession.
  • Norwood, Thomas M., "A True Vindication of the South, in a Review of the American Political Tradition". Norwood is scarecely remembered nowadays, but his grasp of world history, literature and classical languages will astonish the modern reader.
  • Taylor (of Caroline), John, "New Views of the Constitution of the United States". Madison and Hamilton lied to us, contends John Taylor of Caroline, arguably the eminence grise of the States Rights School.
  • Taylor (of Caroline), John, "Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated". Another constitutional call to arms.
  • Taylor (of Caroline), John, "Tyranny Unmasked". A persuasive argument against using the coercive power of government to advance special interests.
  • Wilson, Clyde, ed., "The Essential Calhoun". A primer to Calhounian thought compiled by Dr. Clyde Wilson, a founding member of the League of the South and one of our nation's leading historians.
• Post-War books about Constitutionalism/States Rights, also from the Southern Traditionalist page.
  • Twelve Southerners: "I'll Take My Stand".
  • Bradford, M.E., "Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a Southern Conservative."
  • Bradford, M.E., "Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution".
  • Craven, Avery, "The Growth of Southern Nationalism".
  • Davidson, Donald, "Attack on Leviathan".
  • Davis, William C., "A Government of Our Own: The Making of The Confederacy".
  • Davis, William C., "Jefferson Davis, The Man and His Hour".
  • DeRosa, Marshall, "The Confederate Constitution of 1861".
  • Escott, Paul, "After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism".
  • Fischer, David Hackett, "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America".
  • Genovese, Eugene, "The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought".
  • Genovese, Eugene, "The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War".
  • Kennedy, Donald, and Kennedy, Ronald, "The South Was Right!".
  • Kennedy, Donald, and Kennedy, Ronald, "Why Not Freedom?".
  • Ketcham, Ralph (ed.), "The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates".
  • Kirk, Russell, "John Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics".
  • Leyburn, James, "The Scotch-Irish: A Social History".
  • McDonald, Forest, "Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution"".
  • McWhinney, Grady, "Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South".
  • Rabel, George C., "The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics".
  • Springer, Francis W., "War for What?".
  • Thomas, Emory, "The Confederate Nation: 1861-1865".
  • Tilley, John S., "Facts the Historians Leave Out".
  • Weaver, Richard, "The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Post-Bellum Thought".
  • Weaver, Richard, "Ideas Have Consequences".
  • Wilson, Clyde (ed.), "Why the South will Survive".

Contrasting Works

• The American Conflict
  • by Horace Greeley
  • published by O. D. Case & Company, 1864
• Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
  • by Joseph Story
  • published by Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1833

African History

• Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
  • by Mungo Park
  • self-published, 1799
• Ismailia
  • by Samuel W. Baker
  • 1878