A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and Their History (Contributions in American History)

Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the nine essays in this book provide a probing look at the South's diversity and its important place in the national past. The authors explore the tension between the South's well-worn mythic images and the diversity that bred such influential leaders as Philip Mazzei, Henry Clay, A. B. Happy Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper. The chapters illustrate the South's complexity in assessing the region's plain folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform, and temperance movement. The book untangles the South's mythology and offers fresh and penetrating insights into the ongoing reassessment of the region. Written by leading experts on the South's rich past, this book provides nine essays on the history of the South. Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the essays provide a probing look at the South's diversity and its important place in the national past. The authors explore the tension between the South's well-worn images and the diversity that bred such influential leaders as Philip Mazzei, Henry Clay, A. B. Happy Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper. The South has always been a land of complexity and change. __A Mythic Land Apart__ illustrates this in assessing the region's plain folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform, and temperance movement. Whether captured in fiction, film, or historical literature, the South's history remains intertwined with its mythic self. The essays in this book untangle the South's mythololgy and offer fresh and penetrating insights into the ongoing reassessment of the region. A Mythic Land Apart 1 A Mythic Land Apart Reassessing Southerners and Their History 4 Contents 8 Introduction 10 1 The Immigrant Influence in the Colonial South: The Case of Philip Mazzei 16 2 “Moral Suasion Has Had Its Day”: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum Kentucky 28 3 Medical Education in the South: The Case of Louisville, 1837– 1910 52 4 Compromiser or Conspirator? Henry Clay and the Graves- Cilley Duel 66 5 The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and Southern Secession 90 6 Lessons in Generalship: Robert E. Lee’s Military Legacy for the Twenty- First Century 112 7 “No negro is upon the program”: Blacks and the Montgomery Race Conference of 1900 134 8 The Gavel and the Sword: Experiences Shaping the Life of John Sherman Cooper 160 9 Hollywood and the Mythic Land Apart, 1988– 1991 186 Selected Bibliography of Charles Pierce Roland 200 Index 206 About the Editors and Contributors 214 The immigrant influence in the colonial South : the case of Philip Mazzei / Jason H. Silverman "Moral suasion has had its day" : from temperance to prohibition in antebellum Kentucky / Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. Medical education in the South : the case of Louisville, 1837-1910 / Dwayne Cox Compromiser or conspirator? : Henry Clay and the Graves-Cilley duel / Melba Porter Hay The slave insurrection panic of 1860 and southern secession / Donald E. Reynolds Lessons in generalship : Robert E. Lee's military legacy for the twenty-first century / Carol Reardon "No negro is upon the program" : blacks and the Montgomery Race Conference of 1900 / John David Smith The gavel and the sword : experiences shaping the life of John Sherman Cooper / Richard C. Smoot Hollywood and the mythic land apart, 1988-1991 / Roger A. Fisher. Edited By John David Smith And Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. Selected Bibliography Of Charles Pierce Roland: P. [191]-195. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. [ Mythic Land Reassessing Southerners and Their History Gene Roddenberry's Earth--Final Conflict By ( Author ) May-1997 Hardcover Content Description #Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index