Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820352527 ISBN 13 : 9780820352527

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2017

Synopsis

This volume gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, traveling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field's richness on many levels. As they reflect on why they joined the profession and chose their particular research specialties, these historians write eloquently of family and upbringing, teachers and mentors, defining events and serendipitous opportunities. The struggle for civil rights was the defining experience for several contributors. Peter H. Wood remembers how black fans of the St. Louis Cardinals erupted in applause for the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson. "I realized for the first time," writes Wood, "that there must be something even bigger than hometown loyalties dividing Americans." Gender equality is another frequent concern in the essays. Anne Firor Scott tells of her advisor's ridicule when childbirth twice delayed Scott's dissertation: "With great effort I managed to write two chapters, but Professor Handlin was moved to inquire whether I planned to have a baby every chapter." Yet another prominent theme is the reconciliation of the professional and the personal, as when Bill C. Malone traces his scholarly interests back to "the memories of growing up poor on an East Texas cotton farm and finding escape and diversion in the sounds of hillbilly music." Always candid and often witty, each essay is a road map through the intellectual terrain of southern history as practiced during the last half of the twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

BERTRAM WYATT-BROWN is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of several books, including Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South, Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners, and The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination.

BILL C. MALONE, as a performer and a scholar, has been immersed in country music for most of his life. Now retired from Tulane University, he lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he hosts a weekly radio show, "Back to the Country." He is the author of Country Music, U.S.A., Don't Get above Your Raisin', and other books.

DAN T. CARTER is the University of South Carolina Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus. The author and editor of more than forty scholarly articles and seven books, including Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South and The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics. Carter has received eight major literary prizes including the Lillian Smith, Bancroft, and Robert Kennedy awards as well as a special citation in nonfiction from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Brevard, North Carolina.

CATHARINE DREW GILPIN FAUST is a historian and was the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman to serve in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2014, she was ranked by Forbes as the 33rd most powerful woman in the world.

EDWARD L. AYERS is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Richmond. His major publications include The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1992); In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America (2003); and The Thin Light of Freedom: Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America (2017). He and Paul Gaston were colleagues on the history faculty at the University of Virginia from 1980 until the latter's retirement in 1997.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820352527
• ISBN 13: 9780820352527
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Boles John B.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible