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appear in the following two sections, which include Roland's theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership.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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... President Abraham Lincoln, and chronicled the region's vast economic and political metamorphoses up to 1970. “He notes elements of continuity as well as change and concludes that a distinctive South still exists,” Hannum concluded ...
... President Richard M. Nixon's “southern strategy” that slowed the pace of school desegregation. As a reward, Roland explains, the South, always a bastion of patriotism, “was the most patient region ... with the president's deliberate ...
... [President] Jimmy Carter and his region if these persistent myths had been explored in more detail.” Though Robert A. Divine of the University of Texas praised Roland's sympathetic and insightful treatment of the South (The Improbable ...
... President Abraham Lincoln's contemporaries portrayed him “as a gangling, rustic Ichabod of a man who cultivated popularity among the masses with his salty comments and anecdotes.” Lincoln's rival, President Jefferson Davis, “was tall ...
... President Alexander Stephens, “was a man of diminutive and sickly body and wizened countenance, but with a keen and comprehensive mind.” Roland characterized Confederate general Robert E. Lee as “the incarnation of the cavalier ...
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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 | |