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appear in the following two sections, which include Roland's theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership.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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... 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. Roland drew ...
... social, economic and political concern of the South.” Roland thus followed a historiographical genealogy from Phillips to Simkins, underscoring the power of race in defining the region's distinctiveness. Even after the overturn of Jim ...
... social interests.” For example, despite their marked political successes, in 1972 the number of blacks in elective office represented only 1.3 percent of all positions in the region. Most reviewers greeted Roland's The Improbable Era ...
... social scientists would fault The Improbable Era for emphasizing narrative description at the expense of interpretive analysis while historians would find Roland's documentation “woefully inadequate.” Nonetheless, Wilhoit complimented ...
... social picture.” 107 Roland's teaching stints at Carlisle Barracks and West Point signaled not only a revival of his interest in military history, but also his shift from writing about the South and his return to working on the Civil ...
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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 | |