In this closely documented study, Professor James W. Silver examines the role of the church in the South during the Civil War: what part it played as a powerful social institution in shaping the mind of the South, bringing on secession, and promoting the war, and to what extent its efforts succeeded or failed.
In this closely documented study, Professor James W. Silver examines the role of the church in the South during the Civil War: what part it played as ...
The history of a university professor's daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society (1964)
The history of a university professor's daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the wri...
Mississippi: The Closed Society is a book about an insurrection in modern America, more particularly, about the social and historical background of that insurrection. It is written by a Mississippian who is a historian, and who, on September 30, 1962, witnessed the long night of riot that exploded on the campus of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, when students, and, later, adults with no connection with the University, attacked United States marshals sent to the campus to protect James H. Meredith, the first African American to attend Ole Miss.
In the first part of...
Mississippi: The Closed Society is a book about an insurrection in modern America, more particularly, about the social and historical backgr...
