History Teaches Us to Hope
Subtitle: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History
Contributors: John David Smith (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: October 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780813124568
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; History; History - Military / War; History - U.S; History: American; USA; United States - Civil War; United States - State & Local - South; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); United States - General; Biography; Case studies; Command of troops; Confederate States of America; Generals; Secession; Southern States
Description: Charles Pierce Roland ranks as one of the most distinguished and respected historians of the Civil War and the American South. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Roland is the author of nine books, including An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War, the definitive biography of Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston, and a history of the South since World War II. History Teaches Us to Hope collects Roland's most important work--some previously unpublished--on secession and the Civil War, Civil War leadership, and the South in fact and myth, and also includes personal reflections by Roland about his own life and career. Charles P. Roland is Alumni Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics and The Improbable Era: The South Since WWII.