Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity
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Overview
This collection presents fresh and innovative perspectives on how southerners across two centuries and from Texas to North Carolina have interpreted their past. Thirteen contributors explore the workings of historical memory among groups as diverse as white artisans in early-nineteenth-century Georgia, African American authors in the late nineteenth century, and Louisiana Cajuns in the twentieth century. In the process, they offer critical insights for understanding the many communities that make up the American South.
As ongoing controversies over the Confederate flag, the Alamo, and depictions of slavery at historic sites demonstrate, southern history retains the power to stir debate. By placing these and other conflicts over the recalled past into historical context, this collection will deepen our understanding of the continuing significance of history and memory for southern regional identity.
Contributors:
Bruce E. Baker
Catherine W. Bishir
David W. Blight
Holly Beachley Brear
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Kathleen Clark
Michele Gillespie
John Howard
Gregg D. Kimball
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
C. Brenden Martin
Anne Sarah Rubin
Stephanie E. Yuhl
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781469624327 |
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| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Publication date: | 12/01/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 384 |
| File size: | 6 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: No Deed but Memory / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Part I: Varieties of Memory in the Old South
Memory and the Making of a Southern Citizenry: Georgia Artisans in the Early Republic / Michele Gillespie
African, American, and Virginian: The Shaping of Black Memory in Antebellum Virginia, 1790@-1860 00 Gregg D. Kimball
Part II: Finding Meaning in History during the Confederacy and Reconstruction
Seventy-six and Sixty-one: Confederates Remember the American Revolution / Anne Sarah Rubin
Celebrating Freedom: Emancipation Day Celebrations and African American Memory in the Early Reconstruction South / Kathleen Clark
Part III: The Past in the New South
Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina, 1885@-1915 / Catherine W. Bishir
Redeeming Southern Memory: The Negro Race History, 1874@-1915 / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895 / John Howard
Part IV: Memory and Place in the Modern South
Rich and Tender Remembering: Elite White Women and an Aesthetic Sense of Place in Charleston, 1920s-1930s / Stephanie E. Yuhl
To Keep the Spirit of Mountain Culture Alive: Tourism and Historical Memory in the Southern Highlands / C. Brenden Martin
Le Reveil de la Louisiane: Memory and Acadian Identity, 1920-1960 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
We Run the Alamo, and You Don't: Alamo Battles of Ethnicity and Gender / Holly Beachley Brear
Under the Rope: Lynching and Memory in Laurens County, South Carolina / Bruce E. Baker
Epilogue: Southerners Don't Lie; They Just Remember Big / David W. Blight
Contributors
Index
Illustrations
View of Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, ca. 1903
Zebulon Vance Monument and North Carolina State Capitol, Raleigh, ca. 1911
View of Worth Bagley Memorial on Union Square, Raleigh, ca. 1910 postcard
Members of the North Carolina chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati in Wilmington on 20 April 1906 for the cornerstone laying of the Harnett obelisk
George Davis Monument, Market Street, Wilmington, ca. 1911
Dudley-Sprunt House, North Front Street, Wilmington, 1905 postcard
Orton Plantation House, Brunswick County, mid-twentieth-century postcard
The North Carolina Building, Jamestown (Va.) Exposition, 1907
University of Mississippi faculty, 1893
The new capitol building, completed in 1903
Susan Pringle Frost
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith
Joseph Manigault House (1803)
Miles Brewton/Pringle House (ca. 1769)
Alice R. H. Smith's "Sunday Morning at the Great House"
Members of the 1950 "Travellin' Hillbillies" motorcade
Goldrush Junction theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, train ride featuring a staged skirmish between cowboys and Indians
Page from a 1938 tour book of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park indicating that the National Park Service recognized that Cherokee Indians were a potential tourist draw
Sign using the hillbilly cartoon character Snuffy Smith to attract visitors' attention
Announcement of the centennial celebration of Lafayette Parish Attakapas Trail Pageant, 1923
Colorfully costumed Acadians with President Herbert Hoover at the White House
Acadian reenactors at a local festival, late 1940s
Richard Puckett lynching, August 1913
Maps7.1. Downtown Jackson, Mississippi, 1895
12.1. Laurens County, South Carolina
What People are Saying About This
Everyone interested in historical memory or southern identity should read Where These Memories Grow.—Journal of Southern History
This book will intrigue anyone interested in the ways interpretations of southern history have affected individuals' identities and actions and will stimulate all historians to consider the hidden curricula in their books, exhibits, and monuments.—Georgia Historical Quarterly
Where These Memories Grow reinforces the growing realization that the past is not dead and describes in graphic detail how southern society—and by implication all human societies—struggle with their collective memories. It is impressive in the way it reveals the contest over what gets put in and what gets left out of the collective memory of the South. This collection also helps to cast landmarks, museums, parades and all sorts of commemorations into a new and fresh light.—John Bodnar, Indiana University
This collection takes the study of American memory to a new level of sophistication, breadth, and engagement. Anyone who reads this exciting book will never see the American South in the same way.—Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia
Strong new voices are heard in this collection of essays that opens with the reflections on memory of Fitzhugh Brundage, who is taking the podium as one of the most articulate spokespersons for what might be termed the new southern history.—William S. McFeely, author of Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom
The essays in this book demonstrate that a great deal can be at stake in conflicts over memory. Every group of southerners we encounter seeks some form of a usable past, some degree of control over the social memory of their town, state, or region. A lesson of virtually every piece is that those who can create the dominant historical narrative, those who can own the public memory, will achieve political and cultural power.—David W. Blight, from the Epilogue