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217 notes AbbreVIAtIons ALPL Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois BLMC Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library, The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia MDLC Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. MUA Miami University Archives, Oxford, Ohio SCLDU Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries, Durham, North Carolina SCLMU Walter Havinghurst Special Collections Library, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio SCLUV Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville SLHU The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts VHS Virginia Historical Society, Richmond IntroduCtIon 1. Samuel Augustus Steel, “Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Sometime Editor of This Review,” Methodist Quarterly Review 64 (April 1915): 211. Morris R. Cohen similarly commented on Bledsoe’s “versatility” in The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 3, ed. William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921), 255n1. 2. John Wilson Townsend, Kentucky in American Letters, 1784–1912, vol. 1 (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1913), 171. 3. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Memorandum Book, ca. 1868, entry 58, in the Notebooks of Albert Taylor Bledsoe, MS 104-a, SCLUV (cited hereafter as Bledsoe, Memorandum Book). A typescript of the memoranda is also available in the David Rankin Barbee Microfilm Collection of Albert Taylor Bledsoe Materials, microfilm 517, 3311, SCLUV. 4. Eugene D. Genovese, The Slaveholders’ Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820–1860 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992), 2; Joseph L. Blau, Men and Movements in American Philosophy (New York: Prentice Hall, 1952), 78; Douglas Ambrose, “Southern Intellectual Life,” in Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, vol. 1, ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), 480. 5. John McCardell, The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism , 1830–1860 (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1979), 9. 218 notes to pages 5–9 6. David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2001), 261; Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980), 141; Douglas Southall Freeman, The South to Posterity: An Introduction to the Writing of Confederate History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939), 33. 7. Peter Knupfer, “Aging Statesmen and the Statesmanship of an Earlier Age: The Generational Roots of the Constitutional Union Party,” in Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era, ed. David W. Blight and Brooks D. Simpson (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997), 65. 8. Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War: Meditations on the Centennial, 1961–1965 (New York: Random House, 1961), 3, 64, 49–50, 99; David R. Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002), 1, 12. See also C. Van Woodward, Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986), 108. 9. Genovese, Slaveholders’ Dilemma, 3; Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), viii; Drew Gilpin Faust, “A Southern Stewardship: The Intellectual and the Proslavery Argument,” American Quarterly 31 (Spring 1979): 63. 10. Samuel Elliott Morison, The Oxford History of the United States, vol. 2 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1927), 15. 11. See Michael O’Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810– 1860, 2 vols. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Michael O’Brien, All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way: Critical Discourse in the Old South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992); and Eugene D. Genovese, The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of an American Conservatism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), 22. 12. See James C. Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). Drew Gilpin Faust has observed that southerners have been so preoccupied with explaining themselves and their region for so long that exploring regional identity “is like looking at a reflection of a reflection. Attempts at self-interpretation have become one of the region’s most characteristic cultural products.” Faust, The Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), ix. See also Fred C. Hobson, Tell about the South: The...
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