Author: Sean Michael Lucas
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This new biography on Robert Lewis Dabney presents Dabney as a representative southern Presbyterian who provides a window into the post bellum southern Presbyterian mind.
Robert Lewis Dabney
Author: Sean Michael Lucas
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This new biography on Robert Lewis Dabney presents Dabney as a representative southern Presbyterian who provides a window into the post bellum southern Presbyterian mind.
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This new biography on Robert Lewis Dabney presents Dabney as a representative southern Presbyterian who provides a window into the post bellum southern Presbyterian mind.
The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney
Author: Thomas Cary Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Robert Lewis Dabney, 1820-1898, a minister in Virginia.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Robert Lewis Dabney, 1820-1898, a minister in Virginia.
Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson)
Author: Robert Lewis Dabney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
A Defence of Virginia
Author: Robert Lewis Dabney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Inventing Stonewall Jackson
Author: Wallace Hettle
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807139378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. An occasionally enigmatic and eccentric college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and relatively few surviving letters or documents. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson. Newspaper reporters, friends, relatives, and fellow soldiers first wrote about Jackson immediately following the Civil War. Most of them, according to Hettle, used portions of their own life stories to frame that of the mythic general. Hettle argues that the legend of Jackson's rise from poverty to power was likely inspired by the rags-to-riches history of his first biographer, Robert Lewis Dabney. Dabney's own successes and Presbyterian beliefs probably shaped his account of Jackson's life as much as any factual research. Many other authors inserted personal values into their stories of Stonewall, perplexing generations of historians and writers. Subsequent biographers contributed their own layers to Jackson's myth and eventually a composite history of the general came to exist in the popular imagination. Later writers, such as the liberal suffragist Mary Johnston, who wrote a novel about Jackson, and the literary critic Allen Tate, who penned a laudatory biography, further shaped Stonewall's myth. As recently as 2003, the film Gods and Generals, which featured Jackson as the key protagonist, affirmed the longevity and power of his image. Impeccable research and nuanced analysis enable Hettle to use American culture and memory to reframe the Stonewall Jackson narrative and provide new ways to understand the long and contended legacy of one of the Civil War's most popular Confederate heroes.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807139378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. An occasionally enigmatic and eccentric college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and relatively few surviving letters or documents. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson. Newspaper reporters, friends, relatives, and fellow soldiers first wrote about Jackson immediately following the Civil War. Most of them, according to Hettle, used portions of their own life stories to frame that of the mythic general. Hettle argues that the legend of Jackson's rise from poverty to power was likely inspired by the rags-to-riches history of his first biographer, Robert Lewis Dabney. Dabney's own successes and Presbyterian beliefs probably shaped his account of Jackson's life as much as any factual research. Many other authors inserted personal values into their stories of Stonewall, perplexing generations of historians and writers. Subsequent biographers contributed their own layers to Jackson's myth and eventually a composite history of the general came to exist in the popular imagination. Later writers, such as the liberal suffragist Mary Johnston, who wrote a novel about Jackson, and the literary critic Allen Tate, who penned a laudatory biography, further shaped Stonewall's myth. As recently as 2003, the film Gods and Generals, which featured Jackson as the key protagonist, affirmed the longevity and power of his image. Impeccable research and nuanced analysis enable Hettle to use American culture and memory to reframe the Stonewall Jackson narrative and provide new ways to understand the long and contended legacy of one of the Civil War's most popular Confederate heroes.
A Defense of Virginia and the South
Author: R. L. Dabney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594420405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"A Biblical Defense of Virginia and the South, Civil War History."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594420405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"A Biblical Defense of Virginia and the South, Civil War History."
Society and Solitude
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Christian Sabbath
Author: Robert Lewis Dabney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sabbath
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sabbath
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Letters from Black America
Author: Pamela Newkirk
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807001155
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807001155
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.
The Life of God in the Soul of Man
Author: Henry Scougal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description