Target Expect More. F2hhf7Rbm2o0NY.jpg' alt='A Very Peculiar Practice Series 2' title='A Very Peculiar Practice Series 2' />HIST 1. Lecture 2. Chapter 1. How I Met Your Mother Stagione 7 Ita. Introduction The Southern Memory of the Civil War 0. Professor David Blight Well, go South with me today. Were going to take up this question initially of its an old, old, old American question how peculiar, or distinctive, or different is the American South That used to be a question you could ask in quite some comfort. The Dixie difference, as a recent book title called it, or Dixie rising as another recent book title called it. The South, of course, is many, many, many things and many, many, many peoples. There are so many Souths today that it has rendered this question in some ways almost irrelevant, but, in other ways, of course not. We still keep finding our presidential elections won or lost in the South. Name me a modern American president who won the presidency without at least some success in the states of the old Confederacy. Look at the great realignments in American political history. Theyve had a great deal to do with the way the South would go, or parts of the South would go. Were on the verge now of the first southern primary in this years election, in South Carolina, and everybody is wondering, is there a new modern South Carolina or notNow, this question is fun to have fun with in some ways because its fraught with stereotypes, isnt it The South hot, slow, long vowels, great storytellers, and so on. April 12, 2006 The Theory and Practice of Integration in Business Management Integration is the final stage of coming together of parts into which a whole is divided. How could 15 minutes of creative writing practice each day could change your life Just 15 minutes can turn you from an aspiring writer to a daily writer. Oh, and they love violence and football and stockcar racing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Well I grew up in Michigan and I can assure you that Michiganders love all those things too and probably even more. But the idea of Southern stereotypes is very, very old. It isnt a product of the Civil War by any means. The South as an idea, the South and its distinctiveness was very much there even in the Colonial Period. Travelers from England and elsewhere, France, who would come to the American colonies and would travel throughout the colonies, would often comment on this, that somehow Southerners were different culturally, attitudinally, behaviorally. And none other than Thomas Jefferson himself left this famous description of characterizations of Southerners and Northerners. Sky Drift Game For Pc. He wrote this in the mid 1. Solo Aircraft Engine Service Manual on this page. He was writing to a foreign a French correspondent. And Thomas Jefferson described the people of the North this was in the 1. North this way. Jefferson Northerners are cool, sober, laborious, persevering, independent, jealous of their own liberties, chicaning, superstitious, and hypocritical in their religion. Take that Yankees. But Southerners, he said, they are fiery, voluptuous, indolent, unsteady, independent, zealous of their own liberties he changed jealous to zealous there. If were doing close readings we might go into that for twenty minutes, but were not. Hes not over zealous of their own liberties but trampling on those of others, generous, candid and without attachment or pretensions to any religion but that of their own heart. Now we can debate what Jefferson got right or wrong there, or whats held up, but do note how he said both sides were either jealous or zealous of their own liberties. That could be an epigraph on this course, if you like, because in the end when this Civil War will finally come both sides will say over and over and over again that they are only fighting for liberty. Everybody in the Civil War will say theyre fighting for liberty. In one of the greatest books ever written on the South, by a Southerner, in particular Wilbur Cashs great classic in 1. The Mind of the South, he did something similar to Jefferson, although hes focusing only on Southerners here. Cash was a great journalist, intellectual historian in his own right, deeply critical of his beloved South. In fact it was Cash who wrote a book called The Mind of the South in which he argued, in part, that the South had no mind. He didnt really mean it. He said Southerners are proud, brave, honorable by its The South is proud, brave, honorable by its lights, courteous, personally generous, loyal, swift to act, often too swift, but signally effective, sometimes terrible in its actions. Such was the South at its best, said Cash, and such at its best it remains today. Then comes a but. But the South, he says, is also characterized by, quote, violence, intolerance, aversion, suspicion toward new ideas, an incapability for analysis, an inclination to act from feeling rather than from thought, attachment to fictions and false values, above all too great attachment to racial values and a tendency to justify cruelty and injustice. Some of the Souths greatest critics, of course, have been Southerners. Whats distinctive about the South, especially this Old South Theres Shelby Foote to comment on this. None other than Shelby the star of Ken Burns film series on the Civil War, that lovely, lovely, lovely geriatric in a blue shirt that American women fell in love with in a documentary film. Its the only time in recorded history that anyone fell in love with anybody in a documentary. Shelby Foote said this and who is he speaking for Im not aware that there is such a thing as Southern art, said Shelby, at least not if youre defining it by technique. If theres something distinct about it Southern art its subject matter and also inner heritage. All Southerners who try to express themselves in art are very much aware that they are party to a defeat. Now, thats Shelby Foote speaking for white Southerners. And when Shelby Foote uses the term Southerner he means white Southerners. But party to a defeat. Or as Walker Percy, the great Southern writer, was once asked he was asked, in effect, why do Southerners have such long memoriesThey dont seem to forget anything. And he gave a simple, straight, declarative answer. He said, Because we lost the war. We lost. Loss always, I think, almost always, especially in modern history, has led to longer, deeper, troubled memories. But Shelby wasnt speaking for all Southerners there. Toni Morrison was speaking for black Southerners in that, I think, fantastic line in her novel Beloved  which I know many of youve read because its taught all the time but theres that marvelous little exchange at one point between Paul D and Sethe. And Paul D and Sethe are trying to imagine a new life out of the horror of their past, and at one point Paul D simply says to Sethe Sethe, of course, is a former slave woman who birthed this child which becomes this extraordinary ghost called Beloved, and Paul D was a former slave who survived the worst brutalities of slavery and worse than chain gangs and so on and so forth. But at one point he just says to her, Me and you Sethe, we got too much yesterday, we need more tomorrow. Too much yesterday, we need more tomorrow. Why does the South have such a long memory Why is history and memory sometimes a deep family matter, to SouthernersWhereas it isnt necessarily to Northerners, or so it seems. Faulkner captured this, Faulkner captured this all over the place. But I have a favorite line in his novel called The Hamlet, where Faulkner has one of his characters say, and I quote Only thank God men have done learned how to forget quick what they aint brave enough to cure. Cant cure it, cant solve it, cant get rid of it Forget it. Or try to forget it, or work on forgetting it, or create a structure of forgetting which is, of course, always a structure of remembering at the same time.