Samuel C. Smith holds a Ph.D in American History from the University of South Carolina. He is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Graduate Program at Liberty University. Recorded by the Abbeville Institute’s 2013 Summer School: Understanding the South and the Southern Tradition.
PODCAST: Southern Manners
Dr. Bill Wilson is a distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. In this lecture, he discusses “Southern Manners” at the 2015 Abbeville Institute Summer School.
What Makes Southern Manners Peculiar?
By Ward S. Allen Southerners live in the 18th century. This common charge is not altogether false, since the peculiar habits, customs, and meanings of words found often in the American South are found also in 18th century English authors. Such a word is manners. Most English-speaking people and some Southerners use the word now […]
VIDEO: Awake For the Living – Lee and the “Feeling of Loyalty”
The late Aaron Wolf was Executive Editor of Chronicles Magazine. This lecture is from the Abbeville Institute’s February 2018 Scholars Conference in Charleston, SC: Attacking Confederate Monuments and Its Meaning for America.
VIDEO: How to be Happily Unreconstructed in a World Gone Crazy
Ben “Cooter” Jones is an American actor, politician, playwright and essayist, best known for his role as Cooter Davenport in The Dukes of Hazzard. Jones also served for four years in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1989 to January 3, 1993. This lecture is from the Abbeville Institute’s February 2018 Scholars Conference […]
PODCAST: From Bluegrass to the Beatitudes – An Interview with Graham Sparkman
Originally published on Ancient Faith Radio, Nov. 8, 2017, Bobby Maddex interviews Graham Sparkman, a fifth-generation bluegrass-Mountain musician who now finds himself on the path into the Orthodox Church. Graham is here to talk about his new, unique, and frankly gorgeous CD titled “Lestovka,” available now iTunes and cdbaby.
VIDEO: What is Wrong with Ideology?
Dr. Donald Livingston is one of the Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship’s own. Find out more about him here. This lecture is from the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism.
Welcome to the Gallery
We invite you to share your Orthodox images from around Dixie’s Land. These photos can be people pictures from your parish, during Liturgy, during trapeza, during feasts, together at gatherings or events outside of church – really, any snapshot of Southern Orthodox folks participating in the faith or fellowship. Images can also feature a photo of […]
The Return of the King? Jacobitism vs. Jacobinism in Appalachia and Russia
By Fr. Dcn. Paul Siewers Recently I was blessed to talk with a group of seminarians at Jordanville (via Zoom) in Professor Deacon Andrei Psarev’s history seminar at Holy Trinity Seminary. In that conversation (linked elsewhere here) I mentioned what I called “overlaps” between aspects of American and Russian cultural paradigms, along with obvious differences. I […]
Appalachian Orthodox Paschal Hymn
By Fr. Ernesto M. Obregón Father Justin Patterson of the OCA uploaded [this video] to Facebook. It is the Paschal troparion sung to Appalachian harmonies, but conforming to tonal rules of the Slavic Orthodox. It was sung at a music workshop at the All American Council of the Orthodox Church in America, meeting in Atlanta […]
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