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Shapers of Southern History

Author : John B. Boles
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820324746
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Shapers of Southern History written by John B. Boles and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, traveling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field's richness on many levels. As they reflect on why they joined the profession and chose their particular research specialties, these historians write eloquently of family and upbringing, teachers and mentors, defining events and serendipitous opportunities. The struggle for civil rights was the defining experience for several contributors. Peter H. Wood remembers how black fans of the St. Louis Cardinals erupted in applause for the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson. "I realized for the first time," writes Wood, "that there must be something even bigger than hometown loyalties dividing Americans." Gender equality is another frequent concern in the essays. Anne Firor Scott tells of her advisor's ridicule when childbirth twice delayed Scott's dissertation: "With great effort I managed to write two chapters, but Professor Handlin was moved to inquire whether I planned to have a baby every chapter." Yet another prominent theme is the reconciliation of the professional and the personal, as when Bill C. Malone traces his scholarly interests back to "the memories of growing up poor on an East Texas cotton farm and finding escape and diversion in the sounds of hillbilly music." Always candid and often witty, each essay is a road map through the intellectual terrain of southern history as practiced during the last half of the twentieth century.

Shapers of Southern History

Author : John B. Boles
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820324753
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (247 download)

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Charles W. Ramsdell, Dean of Southern Historians

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985363239
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Charles W. Ramsdell, Dean of Southern Historians written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the BACK COVER: "In all that pertained to the history of the Southern Confederacy, his scholarship was decisive." In Memoriam Charles William Ramsdell University of Texas. --- Charles W. Ramsdell was one of the finest historians our country has ever produced. He was a Texan who taught at the University of Texas at Austin most of his long career. His papers are at UT where a Biographical Note states: "Recognized as the dean of Southern historians, Dr. Ramsdell held the distinction of being the most distinguished scholar and teacher in the field of Southern history." Of the nine great treatises in this book, "Lincoln and Fort Sumter" is legendary and argues powerfully that Abraham Lincoln started the War Between the States by engineering events in Charleston Harbor to get that result. Several Northern newspapers agreed. Lincoln was in serious trouble in the spring of 1861, and the Northern economy, without its captive Southern manufacturing market and cotton to ship, faced economic annihilation. War was far more preferable. Ramsdell's book reviews (15 are in this book) are works of art. He reviewed many famous books such as R. E. Lee: A Biography, by Douglas Southhall Freeman (he loved it); Life and Labor in the Old South, by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (he liked it); and State Rights in the Confederacy, by Frank Lawrence Owsley (he wasn't impressed). Ramsdell and historians of his era are refreshing. You often discover important points of history long overlooked, or discounted by the politically correct frauds of today. This is the first of three books of Ramsdell's writings.

The Historian Behind the History

Author : Megan L. Bever
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318518
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Historian Behind the History written by Megan L. Bever and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historian behind the History is a collection of ten fascinating interviews with southern historians who offer insights into their individual career paths and into the work of professional historians.

Shapers of Southern Baptist Heritage

Author : Southern Baptist Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Shapers of Southern Baptist Heritage written by Southern Baptist Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Burden of Southern History

Author : C. Vann Woodward
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807149470
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Burden of Southern History written by C. Vann Woodward and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South's experience. It also includes previously uncollected appreciations of Robert Penn Warren, to whom the book was originally dedicated, and William Faulkner. This edition also features a new foreword by historian William E. Leuchtenburg in which he recounts the events that led up to Woodward's writing The Burden of Southern History, and reflects on the book's -- and Woodward's -- place in the study of southern history. The Burden of Southern History is quintessential Woodward -- wise, witty, ruminative, daring, and as alive in the twenty-first century as when it was written.

What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285154
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History written by Edward L. Ayers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.”—Stephen Sears, Boston Globe The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions—a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development—have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians. Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South, Ayers turns over the rich soil of Southern life to explore the sources of the nation's and his own history. The title essay, original here, distills his vast research and offers a fresh perspective on the nation's central historical event.

The South Lives in History

Author : Wendell Holmes Stephenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The South Lives in History written by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taking Off the White Gloves

Author : Michele Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Off the White Gloves written by Michele Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When southern women remove their gloves, they speak their minds. The ten timely and provocative essays in Taking Off the White Gloves represent the collective wisdom of some of the finest scholars on women's history in the American South. On the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the Southern Association for Women Historians, this volume brings together some of the outstanding lectures delivered by distinguished members of the association over the past fifteen years. Spanning four centuries of women's experiences in the South, the topics featured in Taking Off the White Gloves range from Native American sexuality and European conquest to woman suffrage in the South, from black women's protest history to the status of women in the historical profession at the end of the twentieth century. Despite diverse subject matter, these rich essays share a number of important qualities. They take an integrative approach, combining literary analysis, social history, cultural interpretation, labor history, popular culture, and oral history. Embracing the distinctiveness of the southern past and women's experiences within that past, they also recognize the inextricability of critical categories such as sexuality and gender, race and gender, and women and work. Finally, these essays emphasize the authors' commitment to the belief that the personal is political; they reveal the subtle and not so subtle ways that women transform theory into practice. Taking Off the White Gloves invites a new understanding of the complexities that surround the history of southern women across race, class, place, and time. A model of innovative and imaginative scholarly historical writing, this book provides fertile ground for young scholars and is sure to inspire new research. This thought- provoking volume has much to offer scholars and students, as well as the general reader.

The American South in the Twentieth Century

Author : Craig S. Pascoe
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327716
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The American South in the Twentieth Century written by Craig S. Pascoe and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the South today, the sight of a Latina in a NASCAR T-shirt behind the register at an Asian grocery would hardly draw a second glance. That scenario, and our likely reaction to it, surely signals something important--but what? Here some of the region’s most respected and readable observers look across the past century to help us take stock of where the South is now and where it may be headed. Reflecting the writers’ deep interests in southern history, politics, literature, religion, and other matters, the essays engage in new ways some timeless concerns about the region: How has the South changed--or not changed? Has the South as a distinct region disappeared, or has it absorbed the many forces of change and still retained its cultural and social distinctiveness? Although the essays touch on an engaging diversity of topics including the USDA’s crop spraying policies, Tom Wolfe’s novel A Man in Full, and collegiate women’s soccer, they ultimately cluster around a common set of themes. These include race, segregation and the fall of Jim Crow, gender, cultural distinctiveness and identity, modernization, education, and urbanization. Mindful of the South’s reputation for insularity, the essays also gauge the impact of federal assistance, relocated industries, immigration, and other outside influences. As one contributor writes, and as all would acknowledge, those who undertake a project like this “should bear in mind that they are tracking a target moving constantly but often erratically.” The rewards of pondering a place as elusive, complex, and contradictory as the American South are on full display here.

Southern Farmers and Their Stories

Author : Melissa Walker
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171504
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Southern Farmers and Their Stories written by Melissa Walker and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrial expansion of the twentieth century brought with it a profound shift away from traditional agricultural modes and practices in the American South. The forces of economic modernity—specialization, mechanization, and improved efficiency—swept through southern farm communities, leaving significant upheaval in their wake. In an attempt to comprehend the complexities of the present and prepare for the uncertainties of the future, many southern farmers searched for order and meaning in their memories of the past. In Southern Farmers and Their Stories, Melissa Walker explores the ways in which a diverse array of farmers remember and recount the past. The book tells the story of the modernization of the South in the voices of those most affected by the decline of traditional ways of life and work. Walker analyzes the recurring patterns in their narratives of change and loss, filling in gaps left by more conventional political and economic histories of southern agriculture. Southern Farmers and Their Stories also highlights the tensions inherent in the relationship between history and memory. Walker employs the concept of “communities of memory” to describe the shared sense of the past among southern farmers. History and memory converge and shape one another in communities of memory through an ongoing process in which shared meanings emerge through an elaborate alchemy of recollection and interpretation. In her careful analysis of more than five hundred oral history narratives, Walker allows silenced voices to be heard and forgotten versions of the past to be reconsidered. Southern Farmers and Their Stories preserves the shared memories and meanings of southern agricultural communities not merely for their own sake but for the potential benefit of a region, a nation, and a world that has much to learn from the lessons of previous generations of agricultural providers.

History, Historians, and Autobiography

Author : Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226675432
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book History, Historians, and Autobiography written by Jeremy D. Popkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What then, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, and Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are publishing stories of their own lives? And how is this recent development changing the nature of history-writing, the historical profession, and the genre of autobiography? Drawing on the theoretical work of contemporary critics of autobiography and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Popkin reads the autobiographical classics of Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams and the memoirs of contemporary historians such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Peter Gay, Jill Ker Conway, and many others, he reveals the contributions historians' life stories make to our understanding of the human experience. Historians' autobiographies, he shows, reveal how scholars arrive at their vocations, the difficulties of writing about modern professional life, and the ways in which personal stories can add to our understanding of historical events such as war, political movements, and the traumas of the Holocaust. An engrossing overview of the way historians view themselves and their profession, this work will be of interest to readers concerned with the ways in which we understand the past, as well as anyone interested in the art of life-writing.

Writing Women's History

Author : Elizabeth Anne Payne
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617031747
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Writing Women's History written by Elizabeth Anne Payne and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Laura F. Edwards, Crystal Feimster, Glenda E. Gilmore, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Darlene Clark Hine, Mary Kelley, Markeeva Morgan, Anne Firor Scott, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Deborah Gray White Anne Firor Scott's The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 stirred a keen interest among historians in both the approach and message of her book. Using women's diaries, letters, and other personal documents, Scott brought to life southern women as wives and mothers, as members of their communities and churches, and as sometimes sassy but rarely passive agents. She brilliantly demonstrated that the familiar dichotomies of the personal versus the public, the private versus the civic, which had dominated traditional scholarship about men, could not be made to fit women's lives. In doing so, she helped to open up vast terrains of women's experiences for historical scholarship. This volume, based on papers presented at the University of Mississippi's annual Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History, brings together essays by scholars at the forefront of contemporary scholarship on American women's history. Each regards The Southern Lady as having shaped her historical perspective and inspired her choice of topics in important ways. These essays together demonstrate that the power of imagination and scholarly courage manifested in Scott's and other early American women historians' work has blossomed into a gracious plentitude.

Half-Hours in Southern History

Author : Jno Lesslie Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585499885
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Half-Hours in Southern History written by Jno Lesslie Hall and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers readers a vivid portrait of the Old South written from a Southern point of view in contrast to the historical accounts "written by her enemies." It was the author's intent to present Southern heroism and achievement in an objective manor, "with malice toward none, with charity for all." This detailed Southern history opens with "The South in Olden Days," its part in the Revolution (complete with its heroes and heroines), the Constitution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War; followed by an examination of "The Homes That Made Heroes;" "The Hundred Years' Wrangle;" "The Private Soldier and the Sailor;" and "Women of the Confederacy." Subsequent chapters are devoted to: "Lee and His Paladins;" "Jackson and His Foot-Cavalry;" "Shiloh and Its Heroes;" and "The South Since the War," which touches on carpetbaggers, the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. This elegant narrative is enhanced by numerous portraits and an index to full names, places and subjects.

The South in the Building of the Nation

Author : Walter Lynwood Fleming
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346259741
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The South in the Building of the Nation written by Walter Lynwood Fleming and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Becoming Southern Writers

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611176530
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Southern Writers written by Orville Vernon Burton and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern writers, historians, and artists celebrate the life and career of a beloved mentor, friend, and colleague Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Becoming Southern Writers pays tribute to South Carolinian Charles Joyner's fifty year career as a southern historian, folklorist, and social activist. Exceptional writers of fact, fiction, and poetry, the contributors to the volume are among Joyner's many friends, admirers, and colleagues as well as those to whom Joyner has served as a mentor. The contributors describe how they came to write about the South and how they came to write about it in the way they do while reflecting on the humanistic tradition of scholarship as lived experience. The contributors constitute a Who's Who of southern writers—from award-winning literary artists to historians. Freed from constraints of their disciplines by Joyner's example, they enthusiastically describe family reunions, involvement in the civil rights movement, research projects, and mentors. While not all contributors are native to the South or the United States and a few write about the South only occasionally, all the essayists root their work in southern history, and all have made distinguished contributions to southern writing. Diverse in theme and style, these writings represent each author's personal reflections on experiences living in and writing about the South while touching on topics that surfaced in Joyner's own works, such as race, family, culture, and place. Whether based on personal or historical events, each one speaks to Joyner's theme that "all history is local history, somewhere."

Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century

Author : Wayne Flynt
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319085
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century written by Wayne Flynt and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12. Religion for the Blues: Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression -- 13. Conflicted Interpretations of Christ, the Church, and the American Constitution -- 14. The South's Battle over God -- 15. God's Politics: Is Southern Religion Blue, Red, or Purple? -- Notes -- Wayne Flynt's Works about Southern Religion Published in Books, Journals, and Anthologies from 1963 to 2011 -- Index