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Book Confederate Minds

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  • Author : Michael T. Bernath
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2010-07-10
  • ISBN : 0807895652
  • Pages : 429 pages

Download or read book Confederate Minds written by Michael T. Bernath and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, some Confederates sought to prove the distinctiveness of the southern people and to legitimate their desire for a separate national existence through the creation of a uniquely southern literature and culture. Michael Bernath follows the activities of a group of southern writers, thinkers, editors, publishers, educators, and ministers--whom he labels Confederate cultural nationalists--in order to trace the rise and fall of a cultural movement dedicated to liberating the South from its longtime dependence on Northern books, periodicals, and teachers. By analyzing the motives driving the struggle for Confederate intellectual independence, by charting its wartime accomplishments, and by assessing its failures, Bernath makes provocative arguments about the nature of Confederate nationalism, life within the Confederacy, and the perception of southern cultural distinctiveness.

Book Thinking Confederates

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  • Author : Dan R. Frost
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781572331044
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Thinking Confederates written by Dan R. Frost and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dan Frost shows how, inspired by the idea of progress, these men set about transforming Southern higher education. Recognizing the north's superiority in industry and technology, they turned their own schools from a classical orientation to a new emphasis on science and engineering. These educators came to define the Southern idea of progress and passed it on to their students, thus helping to create and perpetuate an expectation for the arrival of the New South."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The South Atlantic Quarterly

Download or read book The South Atlantic Quarterly written by John Spencer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Confederate Republic

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  • Author : George C. Rable
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2000-11-09
  • ISBN : 0807863963
  • Pages : 625 pages

Download or read book The Confederate Republic written by George C. Rable and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship. According to Rable, secession marked the beginning of a revolution against politics, in which the Confederacy's founding fathers saw themselves as the true heirs of the American Revolution. Nevertheless, factionalism developed as the war dragged on, with Confederate nationalists emphasizing political unity and support for President Jefferson Davis's administration and libertarian dissenters warning of the dangers of a centralized Confederate government. Both sides claimed to be the legitimate defenders of a genuine southern republicanism and of Confederate nationalism, and the conflict between them carried over from the strictly political sphere to matters of military strategy, civil religion, and education. Rable concludes that despite the war's outcome, the Confederacy's antipolitical legacy had a profound impact on southern politics.

Book The Confederacy

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  • Author : Paul D. Escott
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2009-12-30
  • ISBN : 1573569933
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book The Confederacy written by Paul D. Escott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort. Paul Escott's The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture offers a unique and multifaceted perspective on the United States' most pivotal and devastating conflict, examining the course of the Civil War from the perspective of the Southern elite class, who were desperate to preserve the "peculiar institution" of its slave-based economy, yet dependent on ordinary Southerners, slaves, and women to sustain the fight for them. Against the backdrop of the war's military drama and strategic dilemmas, The Confederacy brings into sharp focus the racial, class, gender, and political conflicts that helped destabilize the Confederacy from within. Along the way, Escott shows how time and time again, the South's political and economic elite made errors that further weakened a South already facing a Union army with greater numbers and firepower.

Book Self Taught

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  • Author : Heather Andrea Williams
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2009-06
  • ISBN : 1442995246
  • Pages : 626 pages

Download or read book Self Taught written by Heather Andrea Williams and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With great skill, Heather Williams demonstrates the centrality of black people to the process of formal education - the establish-ment of schools, the creation of a cadre of teachers, the forging of standards of literacy and numeracy - in the post-emancipation years. As she does, Williams makes the case that the issue of education informed the R...

Book Divided Houses

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  • Author : Catherine Clinton
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 0195080343
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Divided Houses written by Catherine Clinton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided Houses is the first book to show how the Civil War transformed gender roles and attitudes toward sexuality among Americans. This unique volume brings together a wide spectrum of critical viewpoints by newly emerging scholars as well as distinguished authors in the field to show how gender became a prism through which the political tensions of antebellum America were filtered and focused. Through the course of the book, many fascinating subjects are explored, from new "manly" responsibilities both black and white men had thrust upon them as soldiers, to women's roles in the guerrilla fighting, to the wartime dialogue on interracial sex. In addition, an incisive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson helps place these various subjects within an overall historical context. Divided House sheds new light on the entire Civil War experience, demonstrating how themes of gender, class, race, and sexuality interacted to forge the beginnings of a new society.

Book Report of the Proceedings of the     Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

Download or read book Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf written by Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in 15th-

Book Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Constitutional Convention of the State of Nevada

Download or read book Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Constitutional Convention of the State of Nevada written by Nevada. Constitutional Convention and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention  State of Virginia

Download or read book Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention State of Virginia written by Virginia. Constitutional Convention and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self Taught

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN : 1442995270
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Self Taught written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1963 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photograph caption dated March 9, 1963 reads "Guitarist Barney Kessel says endless practice is the key to continued success. He is shown exercising this theory in his Van Nuys home."

Book Southern Stories

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  • Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780826208651
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Southern Stories written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories were collective, as in the case of the antebellum proslavery argument or Confederate discourses about women. Sometimes they were personal, as in the private writings of figures such as Lizzie Neblett, Mary Chesnut, Thornton Stringfellow, or James Henry Hammond. These men and women regularly employed their pens to create coherence and order amid the tangled circumstances of their particular lives and within a context of social prescriptions and expectations.

Book Report of Proceedings

Download or read book Report of Proceedings written by Pennsylvania State Education Association and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self Taught  Volume 2 of 2   EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition

Download or read book Self Taught Volume 2 of 2 EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self Taught

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  • Author : Norm Polonski
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN : 1442995513
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Self Taught written by Norm Polonski and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1967 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plan, for use in the San Diego schools, is outlined for a voluntary, teacher-centered, inservice training program to take place within the school day. This plan would use the many available teacher education films for inservice education, avoiding the additional inconvenience entailed in the planning and staffing of workshops or inservice programs requiring course attendance. These films would form the basis for all inservice education. Each month, the teachers in each department would select an appropriate film for their students to view in the auditorium, while they (the teachers) would be viewing a recent teacher education film chosen from a list of 66 compiled by the secondary instructional committee. The plan would be entirely voluntary, requiring no tests, term papers, or extra-curricular activities, but also offering no artificial incentives such as salary credits. The pilot project is targeted to begin in January, 1968, with one person in each secondary school in the area having been contacted to aid in explaining and promoting the program. This article appeared in sdta bulletin, volume 48, no. 3, December, 1967, P. 9. (aw)

Book The Papers of Jefferson Davis

Download or read book The Papers of Jefferson Davis written by Jefferson Davis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The New Year . . . comes in auspiciously for us,” Jefferson Davis proclaimed in January, 1863, and indeed there were grounds for optimism within the Confederacy. By September, however, various hopes for ending the conflict with the North had given way to the harsh realities of a prolonged war, increasingly confined to southern soil. Although Davis suffered poor health during much of the nine-month period, he remained an active and vital leader. Volume 9 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis gives a vivid picture of the tasks he faced. Military matters consumed most of Davis’ time. Already strained relations with Joseph E. Johnston worsened in the spring, and he was eventually relieved of his overall command of the western armies. Surrenders at Vicksburg and Port Hudson ended Confederate access to the Mississippi River, and in the East, Robert E. Lee’s stunning victory at Chancellorsville was blotted out by bloody repulse south of Gettysburg. Correspondence from Europe reveals what Davis knew of the Erlanger loan and the diminishing chances of French and British intervention. As problems for the Confederacy mounted, discontent grew. Davis received complaints from across the young country, the conscription system being of particular concern. In April he saw firsthand the unhappiness over limited resources as he took to the streets to help calm the Richmond bread riot. Over 2,000 documents, many never before published, are included in Volume 9. Eighty-one are printed with annotation, 242 more in full text, and about 1,750 others are calendared in summary form. They show Davis fighting to maintain morale and military cohesion during one of the Confederacy’s most difficult periods.

Book Communication and Political Change

Download or read book Communication and Political Change written by Henner Barthel and published by Röhrig Universitätsverlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band enthält Vorträge, die beim International Colloquium on Communication, Berlin 2002 gehalten wurden. Das Konferenzthema "Communication and Political Change" bot die Gelegenheit, die Beziehung zwischen Kommunikation und politischem Wandel unter Einbeziehung historischer, kultureller und sozialer Kontexte zu analysieren. Der englischsprachige Band wendet sich damit an Fachleute aus den Gebieten Anthropologie und Philosophie, Ethno- und Politikwissenschaft, Pädagogik, Psychologie und Soziologie, Kommunikationstheorie, Medienpädagogik und Sprechwissenschaft.