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Article: Still Fighting the Civil War.("Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History")(Book Review) (book review)
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- Southern Cultures
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- June 22, 2003
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The American South and Southern History by David Goldfield Louisiana State University Press, 2002 354 PP. Cloth, $34.95
In this provocative book on an old subject, written for a broad audience, David Goldfield maintains that southerners have, since 1865, lived under a "burden" of history and memory. The southerner, writes Goldfield, is "either fixated upon the past and therefore immobilized by it, or ... a total amnesiac and therefore destructive." Still Fighting the Civil War is one historian's update of W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South, which also returns to the themes of irony, identity, and the weight of a peculiar past in C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of ...