Research Catalog

Title

The pursuit of Southern history : presidential addresses of the Southern Historical Association, 1935-1963 / edited by George Brown Tindall.

Author

Southern Historical Association.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1964.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tindall, George Brown

Description

xxi, 541 pages; 24 cm

Summary

If the Civil War does not loom large as a subject for presidential addresses, it thrusts up repeatedly in considerations of other subject. It also functions, in H.C. Nixon's phrase, as the "great calendarial dam across the stream of Southern history." Once again in the early 1960s as in the early 1940's, the tensions and spirit of the times have thrust up into the presidential addresses, but in a framework of self-analysis rather than sectionalism. Taken as a group, these essays touch upon points in a wide spectrum of their field. It would be too much to ask, perhaps, that they collectively represent any fundamental trends in southern history; too much certainly to demand that they cover the whole scope of southern history. -- Introduction

Subject

• History
• History
• history (discipline)
• Southern States > History
• Southern States

Genre/Form

• History
• Addresses.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 495-534)

Contents

Introduction / George B. Tindall -- What the South has done about its history / E. Merton Coulter -- The changing interpretation of the Civil War / Charles W. Ramsdell -- Democracy and the Southern frontier / Thomas Perkins Abernethy -- The records of Southern history / Philip M. Hamer -- The Southerner and the laws / Charles S. Sydnor -- The fundamental cause of the Civil War : Egocentric sectionalism / Frank L. Owsley -- The colonial status of the South / B.B. Kendrick -- One hundred years of reconstruction of the South / A.B. Moore -- Three centuries of Southern records, 1607-1907 / J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton -- A half-century of Southern historical scholarship / Wendell H. Stephenson -- Democracy in the Old South / Fletcher M. Green -- Reconciliation between the North and the South / Ella Lonn -- The country newspaper : A factor in Southern opinion, 1865-1930 / Thomas D. Clark -- The old South to the new / Robert S. Cotterill -- The provincial South / Lester J. Cappon -- The South and the West / William C. Binkley -- The price of union / Avery Craven -- The irony of Southern history / C. Vann Woodward -- The roles of the South in the French intervention in Mexico / Kathryn Abbey Hanna -- Tolerating the South's past / Francis Butler Simkins -- A time of greatness / Bell Irvin Wiley -- Facets of the South in the 1850's / James W. Patton -- West by South / Robert S. Henry -- The Protestant Episcopal Church : An American adaptation / Walter B. Posey -- The gentleman from Louisiana : Demagogue or democrat / T. Harry Williams -- Four American traditions / William Best Hesseltine -- Professor James Woodrow and the freedom of teaching in the South / Clement Eaton -- The mobile frontier / Rembert W. Patrick -- Mississippi : The closed society / James W. Silver.

LCCN

64021595

OCLC

• ocm00477051
• 477051
• SCSB-213465

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library