Defending Southern Heritage: A Series of Letters and Essays in Response to Enemy Attacks

When monuments come down and school names get scrubbed from buildings, when textbooks get rewritten and history gets sanitized for modern sensibilities, someone has to push back with facts. Jeff Paulk has …

When monuments come down and school names get scrubbed from buildings, when textbooks get rewritten and history gets sanitized for modern sensibilities, someone has to push back with facts. Jeff Paulk has been that someone since 2008.

As Oklahoma Division Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Paulk has spent nearly two decades writing to mayors, school boards, newspaper editors, and members of Congress, challenging revisionist narratives and defending the memory of those who served the Confederacy. This collection brings together the full body of that work: 387 carefully composed letters and 7 essays spanning 2008 to 2025.

What you'll find inside:

Direct correspondence with public officials and media figures responding to specific attacks on Southern monuments, symbols, and historical memory. Each letter documents not only the challenge at hand but the factual, sourced rebuttal necessary to counter it. Together, they form a detailed record of the ongoing campaign against Southern heritage and one man's persistent, documented resistance.

Defending Southern Heritage is both a historical archive and a practical blueprint. It shows what sustained, fact-based advocacy looks like on the ground, letter by letter, year after year. Whether you are a member of the SCV, a student of Southern history, or someone who believes historical memory should be preserved rather than demolished, this collection belongs on your shelf.