History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History

by Charles P. Roland

Before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee penned a letter to Col. Charles Marshall in which he argued that we must cast our eyes backward in times of turmoil and change, concluding that "it is history that teaches us to hope." Charles Pierce Roland, one of the nation's most distinguished and respected historians, has done exactly that, devoting his career to examining the South's tumultuous path in the years preceding and following the Civil War. History...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813124565
• ISBN13: 9780813124568
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher