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appear in the following two sections, which include Roland's theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership.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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... political life. Based on his close reading of regional demographic and statistical data, Roland identified a marked economic upswing in the South from the 1950s onward. Economic incentives lured industry to the region, and southern ...
... political principles.” Having made this point, however, Roland admitted that many Redeemers willingly surrendered “inherited tenets of agrarianism and states' rights in return for the South's participation in the great wave of 74 ...
... political metamorphoses up to 1970. “He notes elements of continuity as well as change and concludes that a distinctive South still exists,” Hannum concluded. “Many changes in this edition,” she added, “are revisions in tone. Roland is ...
... political, and social forces—all in 193 pages of text. Reflecting his deep interest in and mastery of a broad range of topics, he devoted individual chapters to southern religion, literature, education, and music and the visual arts ...
... politics into the 1970s, Roland insisted that “race was still the most acute social, economic and political concern of the South.” Roland thus followed a historiographical genealogy from Phillips to Simkins, underscoring the power of ...
Inhalt
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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