Well into the final months of the Civil War, countless Confederate soldiers earnestly believed that victory lay just around the corner. How could this be? Jason Phillips reveals the deeply ingrained attitudes that shaped the reality of these diehards not only during the war but in the subsequent era, when the myth of the Lost Cause was born.
Much is known about what Confederate soldiers fought for; far less is understood about why they fought on despite long odds and terrible costs. Drawing on soldiers letters and diary entries from 1863 to 1865, "Diehard Rebels" explains how religious...
Well into the final months of the Civil War, countless Confederate soldiers earnestly believed that victory lay just around the corner. How could t...
On November 5, 1968, Ralph Ellison stood up at the Southern Historical Association meeting in New Orleans and called the members gathered there "respectable liars," thus exposing the link between "official" history and the dominant consciousness of the time. Historian Jason Phillips refers to such scholarship as "master narratives" stories masquerading as truth that promote the interests of white patriarchy past and present. In this innovative collection, Phillips and ten other historians and literary scholars explore an enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American...
On November 5, 1968, Ralph Ellison stood up at the Southern Historical Association meeting in New Orleans and called the members gathered there "respe...
