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Article: Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History
- Article from:
- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. By DAVID GOLDFIELD. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xiii, 354 pp. $34.95.
DAVID GOLDFIELD'S latest work provides a "series of thoughts" (p. 14) on southerners' memories of the Civil War and Reconstruction and how that historical consciousness has affected the South. In an honest concession at the outset, Goldfield declares, and readers should understand, that he wrote "primarily for my neighbors, not my colleagues" (p. 14) in the historical profession. He does provide a useful introduction to his topic, though the relatively abstruse abstractions in the first seventy-five pages may make them ...