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appear in the following two sections, which include Roland's theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership.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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... Union, Johnston commanded the Department of the Pacific. He resigned his commission to cast his lot with the new Confederate army. Davis appointed Johnston a full general, giving him the daunting responsibility of defending Department ...
... Union victory was the result of a superiority in the sum of its warmaking capacity, including numerical, material, and nonmaterial resources.” In his analysis of Confederate military defeat, Roland shunned the “historical presentism ...
... Union and fight for the Confederacy after a lifetime in federal blue.” 146 In 2003, after decades of debating Lee's ... Union general John Pope at the battle of Second Manassas and to Union general Joseph Hooker at Chancellorsville. At ...
... Union and the centrifugal force secession unleashed. “The black funnel of war loomed on the horizon,” he writes. The previously unpublished “A Slaveowner's Defense of Slavery” (first presented at a symposium on secession sponsored by ...
... Union without slavery.” 77. Monroe Billington, review of Charles P. Roland, The Improbable Era: The South since World War II, in West Virginia History 37 (July 1976): 329–30. 78. Hannum review, 97. For the comment on rape, see Simkins ...
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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 | |
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