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Article: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh: The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2006
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Brundage, W. Fitzhugh The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory Cambridge: Belknap Press 418 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01876-1 Publication Date: September 2005
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory by W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins works like David Blight's Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001) in exploring historical memory. Brundage, the William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, examines southern history from the end of the Civil War to "trace how power operates in the making and recording of historical interpretation" and helps us understand how Americans came to the point where ...