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Article: Feldman, Glenn, ed. Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
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- September 22, 2003
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Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2001. 376 pp. Paper, $24.95.
In the 1960s, undergraduates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill knew him as "Silent Sam." Sam was the statue of a Confederate infantryman erected on campus by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) at the beginning of the twentieth century. Campus legend in the 1960s had it that Sam would fire his rifle whenever a virgin walked by. The joke was that no one ever had heard Sam fire a shot.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Sam was no joke. He was part of a campaign by the white Southern elite, working through Confederate patriotic societies such as ...