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Article: History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History. By Charles E Roland. Edited and with an introduction by John David Smith. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. x, 353. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2456-8.)
By the time Charles E "GI Charlie" Roland entered graduate school at Louisiana State University in 1947, he had received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star as a combat infantry officer. Professors Bell Irvin Wiley, Francis Butler Simkins, and T. Harry Williams knew they had a serious student on their hands. America had lost an insurance salesman but gained a superb scholar and teacher. Like his three mentors, Roland went ...