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Article: George Washington's South
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- South Carolina Historical Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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George Washington's South. Edited by Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. x, 345; $59.95, cloth.)
George Washington's South is an engaging collection of twelve scholarly essays that emerged out of a conference at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1999 to commemorate the bicentennial of the first president's death. Contributors from a wide variety of disciplines (including history, literature, art history, and anthropology) examine not only George Washington as a product of the South, but they also explore the region's complexities and its "multiple identities" (p. 3). Editors Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien pose three overarching ...