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The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward focuses on lectures Woodward delivered in the mid-twentieth century that reflect his life-long interest in exploring the contours and limits of liberalism during key moments of great change in the South.
List of contents
- Foreword by Edward L. Ayers
- Introduction
- Editorial Note
- Fleming Lectures at Louisiana State University: "Southern Dissenters in Exile" (1951)
- Lecture I: The Men of the Thirties
- Lecture II: The Men of the Fifties
- Lecture III: The Way of the Exile
- Chapter One: The Process of Alienation
- Chapter Two: The Year of Decision
- Messenger Lectures at Cornell University: "The First Reconstruction in the Light of the Second" (1964)
- Lecture II: The Fear of Freedom
- Lecture III: The Paradox of Loyalty
- Lecture IV: The Conservatism of Northern Radicals
- Lecture V: Radicalism for Conservative Southerners
- Lecture VI: Did the North Really Mean It?
- Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School: "Slavery to Freedom: An American Failure" (1969) Lecture I: The Problem of Failure in American History
- Acknowledgments
- Index
About the author
Natalie J. Ring is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930 and co-editor of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South.
Sarah E. Gardner is Distinguished University Professor in History at Mercer University. She is the author of Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 and Reviewing the South: The Literary Marketplace and the Southern Renaissance.
Edward L. Ayers is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Richmond. He is the author of many award-winning books, including The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (OUP, 1992, 2007) and The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.
Summary
The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward focuses on lectures Woodward delivered in the mid-twentieth century that reflect his life-long interest in exploring the contours and limits of liberalism during key moments of great change in the South.
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[J]ust as The Canterbury Tales, which is a somewhat fragmentary execution of what Chaucer actually intended, give great pleasure, and great provocation, so can these intriguing snippets of the musings of a truly great historian's mind.
