Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity

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William Fitzhugh Brundage
UNC Press Books, 2000 - Literary Collections - 366 pages
Southerners are known for their strong sense of history. But the kinds of memories southerners have valued_and the ways in which they have preserved, transmitted, and revitalized those memories_have been as varied as the region's inhabitants themselves. <
 

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No Deed but Memory W Fitzhugh Brundage
1
Varieties of Memory in the Old South
29
of a Southern Citizenry Georgia Artisans in the Early Republic Michele Gillespie
35
The Shaping of Black Memory in Antebellum Virginia 17901860 Gregg D Kimball
57
Finding Meaning in History during the Confederacy and Reconstruction
79
Confederates Remember the American Revolution Anne Sarah Rubin
85
Emancipation Day Celebrations and African American Memory in the Early Reconstruction South Kathleen Clark
107
The Past in the New South
133
Memory and Place in the Modern South
219
Elite White Women and an Aesthetic Sense of Place in Charleston 192os and 1930s Stephanie E Yuhl
227
Mountain Culture Alive Tourism and Historical Memory in the Southern Highlands C Brenden Martin
249
t 11 Memory and Acadian Identity 19201960 W Fitzhugh Brundage
271
Alamo Batdes of Ethnicity and Gender Holly Beachley Brear
299
Lynching and Memory in Laurens County South Carolina Bruce E Baker
319
Southerners Dont Lie They Just Remember Big David W Blight
347
contributors
355

Building a Southern Past in Raleigh and Wilmington North Carolina 18851915 Catherine W Bishir
139
The Negro Race History 18741915 Laurie F MafflyKipp
169
Revisiting Accusation Murder and Mississippi 1895 John Howard
191

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About the author (2000)

W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of several other books, including Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South.

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