Manners and Southern History.(Book review)

Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Manners and Southern History. Edited by Ted Ownby...excessively correct manners, only a few historians...actually affected southern history. As the organizer...debate about what manners have meant in southern history in a variety of...

Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.

The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2003 ;     635 words ...Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations...Historiographical surveys in the field of southern history often offer the most widely disparate...historiography. Most students of southern history have consulted Arthur S. Link...

Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.(Book...

Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2003 ;     626 words ......Historiographical surveys in the field of southern history often offer the most widely...historiography. Most students of southern history have consulted Arthur S. Link...Rembert W. Patrick's Writing Southern History (Baton Rouge, 1965), as well...

A SHORT HISTORY of RUDENESS.(manners and etiquette in the US)(Brief...

Insight on the News;  September 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ...A SHORT HISTORY of RUDENESS Manners. Morals. and Misbehavior in Modern...in the United States to put modern manners in perspective. In July, when my 10-year...our 10-year-old in terms of taste or manners at all, but according to Mark Caldwell...

NOW, MORE THAN EVER, GOOD MANNERS NEEDED

Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  July 11, 1997 ;     506 words ...Good manners seem to be on the minds of a lot of people...students a one-week, non-credit course on manners. Journalist Bob Greene, author and columnist...we constantly hear around us." Why good manners? Writer Steve Berg said good manners were...

What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  October 1, 2005 ;     205 words ......War? Reflections on the South and Southern History, by Edward L. Ayers. Norton, June...awakening to the challenges of writing southern history as a southerner (he grew up in rural...edu), ruminations on the essence of "southern" history, the origins and causes of the American...

Manners make a difference in a stressful world

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  February 16, 2006 ;     592 words ...Do people reallynotice good manners? You bet they do. Even though lifestyles...relaxed in this new millennium, good manners are appreciated. Polite language, cell...like. Make no mistake about it. Your manners -- how you present yourself and behave...

A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern...

Journal of American Culture;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern...Perhaps my worst association with manners is the way they encourage women to...Caldwell delves into the history of manners, their intricacies, contradictions...

Good manners in decline; Manners are becoming a thing of the past in...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  October 12, 2006 ;     646 words ......Cicero exclaimed: Oh the times! Oh the manners! Except, of course, he said it in Latin...damning indictment of modern society . Good manners top the list of social graces in rapid...assistants seem to be getting surlier. But do manners really matter? Should we care if we are...

Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections.(Book Review)

Journal of Southern History;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections...which are explored in Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections...delineate the paths that led them to southern history--all highly personal. For native...

Carol's Corner; Where are the Good Manners?

Columbus Times;  February 26, 2003 ;     657 words ...Gertjegerdes, Carol Columbus Times 02-26-2003 Where are the good manners? We assume that all people are brought up with good manners. It should be the case but some of us do not have good manners. Manners can be defined as "habitual conduct or deportment...

Miss Manners' polite efforts to `Rescue Civilization'

The Boston Globe;  June 26, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Martin of Washington, D.C., a k a Miss Manners of newspaper and publishing fame, hailed...and told the driver her destination. His manners, she recently lamented, were very, very...18 years, has a new book out -- "Miss Manners Rescues Civilization" -- and is herself...

Averting rude awakening at work; inattention to manners in the work...

Business Insurance;  March 18, 1996 ;     700+ words ......often we forget to emphasize risk prevention in a most important area - business manners. After all, manners are the oldest form of risk management. When you say manners, people immediately think of table manners or something associated with food...

Dear Miss Manners: When you ...

The Washington Post;  May 8, 2002 ;     545 words ...Dear Miss Manners: When you want to take the last of anything...trying to teach my children decent table manners. If you ask, must each of your siblings...dish for -- you'll never guess whom. Miss Manners. At least that was the rule in better...

Psychology: Why manners really do matter

Capital (Annapolis);  February 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ......people in our society are wondering where manners, etiquette and basic civility have gone...that a parent's job of teaching children manners keeps getting harder. How can a child, or anyone for that matter, learn good manners when immersed in an uncivilized society...