For them, the life ofJesus provided inspiration for reform, and through that inspiration another tradition of evangelical Protestantism emerged by the early twentieth century. D issenters Frank W. Barnett edited the Alabama Baptist and ...
Chronicles the history of the South from the Civil War to the present, exploring the roots of southern memory and explaining how this memory has shaped the modern South both for good and ill.
"This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people.
"This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people.
In this sweeping narrative of the South from the Civil War to the present, noted historian David Goldfield contemplates the roots of southern memory and explains how this memory has shaped the modern South both for good and ill.".
Newcomers to the South often remark that southerners, at least white southerners, are still fighting the Civil War -- a strange preoccupation considering that the war formally ended more than one hundred and thirty-five years ago and fewer ...