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appear in the following two sections, which include Roland's theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership.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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... publish in the following decade.23 One of Roland's early articles, “The Generalship of Robert E. Lee,” garnered him considerable attention. Roland's essay had stemmed from a symposium at Northwestern University in the fall.
... early articles focused on another Confederate general, Albert Sidney Johnston, the subject of Roland's research for more than a decade during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many scholars and Civil War enthusiasts consider Roland's ...
... early contests—the battle of Shiloh. As Roland explained in the preface to his biography, “Shiloh was hallowed ground to me in my childhood. Born and bred in West Tennessee . . . I visited there often. I went there on family occasions ...
... early in the war, most of Roland's study naturally focused on his long antebellum career. After graduating from West Point in 1826, Johnston entered the U.S. Army and fought in the Black Hawk War before joining the Republic of Texas as ...
... early morning sun lit the West Tennessee countryside, Confederate troops advanced forward across a three-mile-long front. Shiloh would become the greatest battle yet fought in the Civil War. During the ferocious combat that ensued ...
Inhalt
In the Beginning | |
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 | |