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Author : Henry Clay Pate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X001071499
Author : Peter S. Carmichael
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625898
Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He finds them deeply engaged in the political, economic, and cultural forces of their time. Age, he concludes, created special concerns for young men who spent their formative years in the 1850s. Before the Civil War, these young men thought long and hard about Virginia's place as a progressive slave society. They vigorously lobbied for disunion despite opposition from their elders, then served as officers in the Army of Northern Virginia as frontline negotiators with the nonslaveholding rank and file. After the war, however, they quickly shed their Confederate radicalism to pursue the political goals of home rule and New South economic development and reconciliation. Not until the turn of the century, when these men were nearing the ends of their lives, did the mythmaking and storytelling begin, and members of the last generation recast themselves once more as unreconstructed Rebels. By examining the lives of members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds new light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity during the turbulent last half of the nineteenth century.
Author : Jason Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190868178
How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including race, religion, age, gender, region, and class, shaped what people thought about the future and how they imagined it. Some Americans pictured the future as an open, contested era that they progressed toward and molded with their thoughts and actions. Others saw the future as a closed, predetermined world that approached them and sealed their fate. When the war began, these opposing temporalities informed how Americans grasped and waged the conflict. In this creative history, Jason Phillips explains how the expectations of a host of characters-generals, politicians, radicals, citizens, and slaves-affected how people understood the unfolding drama and acted when the future became present. He reconsiders the war's origins without looking at sources using hindsight, that is, without considering what caused the cataclysm and whether it was inevitable. As a result, Phillips dispels a popular myth that all Americans thought the Civil War would be short and glorious at the outset, a ninety-day affair full of fun and adventure. Much more than rational power games played by elites, the war was shaped by uncertainties and emotions and darkened horizons that changed over time. Looming Civil War highlights how individuals approached an ominous future with feelings, thoughts, and perspectives different from our sensibilities and unconnected to our view of their world. Civil War Americans had their own prospects to ponder and forge as they discovered who they were and where life would lead them. The Civil War changed more than America's future; it transformed how Americans imagined the future and how Americans have thought about the future ever since.
Author : Gary W. Gallagher,Alan T. Nolan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253109026
A “well-reasoned and timely” (Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography. Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own. Misrepresenting the war’s true origins and its actual course, the myth of the Lost Cause distorts our national memory. In The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, nine historians describe and analyze the Lost Cause, identifying ways in which it falsifies history—creating a volume that makes a significant contribution to Civil War historiography. “The Lost Cause . . . is a tangible and influential phenomenon in American culture and this book provides an excellent source for anyone seeking to explore its various dimensions.” —Southern Historian
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X002654659
Author : America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1732
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590018484
Author : Virginia State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X004723483
Author : James C. Kelly,William Meade Stith Rasmussen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art, American
ISBN : UVA:X004434936
For generations of Virginians and visitors the landscape of the Old Dominion has represented something unique and symbolic. In conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the Virginia Historical Society, this beautifully produced volume brings together more than 250 paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs depicting the rich and varied history of the state through the eyes of the artists who have painted and photographed it.
Author : Virginia State Library,Earl Gregg Swem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112126784112
Author : Virginia State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126664684
Contents.--pt. 1. Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents.--pt. 2. Titles of the printed official documents of the Commonwealth, 1776-1916.--pt. 3. The Acts and Journals of the General Assembly of the Colony, 1619-1776.--pt. 4. Three series of sessional documents of the House of Delegates: ... January 7-April 4, 1861 ... September 15-October 6, 1862; and .. January 7-March 31, 1863.--pt. 5. Titles of the printed documents of the Commonwealth, 1916-1925.
Author : Michael P. Branch,Daniel J. Philippon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111618299
"An anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing from the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia ... Also includes a critical introduction to the character and form of nature writing, the concepts of place and bioregionalism, and the literary natural history of the Blue Ridge regions, as well as detailed notes to the selections."--Back cover.
Author : Jodi Schorb
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813575407
Shining new light on early American prison literature—from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature—Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the history of early American literacy instruction, and the transformation of crime writing in the “long” eighteenth century. Looking first at colonial America—an era often said to devalue jailhouse literacy—Jodi Schorb reveals that in fact this era launched the literate prisoner into public prominence. Criminal confessions published between 1700 and 1740, she shows, were crucial “literacy events” that sparked widespread public fascination with the reading habits of the condemned, consistent with the evangelical revivalism that culminated in the first Great Awakening. By century’s end, narratives by condemned criminals helped an audience of new writers navigate the perils and promises of expanded literacy. Schorb takes us off the scaffold and inside the private world of the first penitentiaries—such as Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Prison and New York’s Newgate, Auburn, and Sing Sing. She unveils the long and contentious struggle over the value of prisoner education that ultimately led to sporadic efforts to supply prisoners with books and education. Indeed, a new philosophy emerged, one that argued that prisoners were best served by silence and hard labor, not by reading and writing—a stance that a new generation of convict authors vociferously protested. The staggering rise of mass incarceration in America since the 1970s has brought the issue of prisoner rehabilitation once again to the fore. Reading Prisoners offers vital background to the ongoing, crucial debates over the benefits of prisoner education.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Americana
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097885461
Author : Absalom Peters,Henry Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015071092954
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082988018