The first chapter of Still Fighting the Civil War lays out briefly the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the rise of the Lost Cause interpretation of those events. Goldfield's summaries do an admirable job of boiling down complex works to their essence and retelling them in a very readable style without obscuring the arguments at stake. He moves easily from summaries of the secondary literature on a variety of topics and expository paragraphs explaining how these works fit into his framework of southern history. history textbook, Goldfield is well prepared for the task. To address this question, Goldfield leads the reader through a good synthesis of much of the best recent work on the history of the South from 1865 to the immediate past. The title of David Goldfield's latest book leaves little question as to its subject: Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History takes off from the perennial question of why southerners care so much about history-at least that portion between 18-and how that has affected them and their region. Baker (Department of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History.īaton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
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