History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern HistoryUniversity Press of Kentucky, 07.12.2007 - 416 Seiten Before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee penned a letter to Col. Charles Marshall in which he argued that we must cast our eyes backward in times of turmoil and change, concluding that "it is history that teaches us to hope." Charles Pierce Roland, one of the nation's most distinguished and respected historians, has done exactly that, devoting his career to examining the South's tumultuous path in the years preceding and following the Civil War. History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History is an unprecedented compilation of works by the man the volume editor John David Smith calls a "dogged researcher, gifted stylist, and keen interpreter of historical questions."Throughout his career, Roland has published groundbreaking books, including The Confederacy (1960), The Improbable Era: The South since World War II (1976), and An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War (1991). In addition, he has garnered acclaim for two biographical studies of Civil War leaders: Albert Sidney Johnston (1964), a life of the top field general in the Confederate army, and Reflections on Lee (1995), a revisionist assessment of a great but frequently misunderstood general. The first section of History Teaches Us to Hope, "The Man, The Soldier, The Historian," offers personal reflections by Roland and features his famous "GI Charlie" speech, "A Citizen Soldier Recalls World War II." Civil War–related writings appear in the following two sections, which include Roland's theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership. The final section brings together Roland's writings on the evolution of southern history and identity, outlining his views on the persistence of a distinct southern culture and his belief in its durability. History Teaches Us to Hope is essential reading for those who desire a complete understanding of the Civil War and southern history. It offers a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary historian. |
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... Simkins, and T. Harry Williams. 1 Many years later Wiley remembered Roland as one of his best former graduate students, one of several men recently discharged from the Army who “had had some time to gain perspective; they meant business ...
... Simkins, and The Improbable Era: The South since World War II (1975). 44 Roland of course had studied with the legendary Simkins at LSU and ranked as one of his foremost former doctoral students. The senior scholar, who died in 1966 ...
... Simkins is a personage among Southern historians.” 47 In 1954, twenty-seven years before Roland received the same honor, Simkins served as president of the Southern Historical Association. During his day, historians considered Simkins a ...
... Simkins remained best known among scholars for his theme of “an everlasting South.” 51 James S. Humphreys, Simkins's biographer, correctly identifies contradictions, what he terms “traditionalist and modernist aspects,” in the ...
... Simkins's original treatment of slavery went little beyond Phillips's earlier analyses. “In actual practice,” Simkins wrote, “restrictions upon Negroes were not so severe as the laws provided.” The bondsmen and women found ways to ...
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A Citizen Soldier Recalls World War II | |
In Retrospect | |
Louisiana and Secession | |
The Resort to Arms | |
A Slaveowners Defense of Slavery | |
Louisiana Sugar Planters and the Civil | |
The South Americas WillotheWisp Eden | |
The South of the Agrarians | |
Happy Chandler | |
Change and Tradition in Southern Society | |
The EverVanishing South | |
Copyrights and Permissions | |