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appear in the following two sections, which include Roland's theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership.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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... Jefferson Davis's unflagging devotion to the Confederate cause, Roland faulted him for failing to formulate “a unified command or a national strategy worthy of the national army which he fashioned with foresight and resourcefulness ...
... [Jefferson Davis] administration than is merited.” 22 Despite the strengths of Roland's book, by the 1980s Emory M. Thomas's The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865 (1979) had superseded it in terms of breadth of research and level of argument ...
... Jefferson Davis and many others considered to be one of the greatest military minds in the new Confederacy. Because Johnston fell so early in the war, most of Roland's study naturally focused on his long antebellum career. After ...
... Jefferson Davis's Greatest General: Albert Sidney Johnston. This short, nicely illustrated work is especially well suited for undergraduate students and Civil War buffs. 41 Roland's move to the University of Kentucky in 1970 signaled ...
... Jefferson Davis, “was tall, erect, and slender, his bearing unmistakably military; though his features were too sharp to be called truly handsome, they were distinguished; southerners considered them genteel.” Davis's often114 absent ...
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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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