The Burden of Southern History

by C. Vann Woodward

Book Overview

C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807118915
• ISBN13: 9780807118917
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Burden of C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward was a fine historian with liberal sentiments when it came to race while still loving his native South. "The Burden of Southern History" is a collection of his essays that has now gone through numerous editions. Woodward is sometimes excellent ("The Irony of Southern History" is perhaps the finest essay in this collection) but some of his pieces are flat. Woodward is good on the works of Robert Penn Warren and on how three Northern writers viewed the South in the Gilded Age. His piece on the reaction to John Brown's raid and changes in the South in the aftermath of Bill Clinton's victory in 1992 are not up to the same level of quality. Nonetheless, this is a fine collection from a humane spirit and a good writer.