Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney - Hardcover

Joyner, Charles; Moltke-Hansen, David; Faust, Drew Gilpin; Thornton, J. Mills; Kousser, J. Morgan; McPherson, James M.; Guinier, Lani; O'Brien, Michael; Burton, Orville Vernon; Sullivan, Patricia A.; Gaston, Paul M.; McCrary, Peyton; Kennedy, Randall; Arsenault, Raymond; McCurry, Stephanie; Hahn, Steven; Sugrue, Thomas; Ferris, William R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588382974 ISBN 13: 9781588382979

Publisher: NewSouth, Incorporated, 2013

Synopsis

"Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney" is a collection of original essays written by some of the nation's most distinguished historians. Sheldon Hackney has served as provost of Princeton University, president of Tulane University and the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In a variety of roles teacher, mentor, colleague, administrator, writer, and friend Hackney has been a source of wisdom, empowerment, and wise counsel during more than four decades of historical and educational achievement. His life, both inside and outside the academy, has focused on issues closely related to civil rights, social justice, and the vagaries of race, class, regional culture, and national identity.

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Review:

"At a time of tightened press budgets, the traditional festschrift to honor retiring scholars has become increasingly rare, but these nineteen essays written by Sheldon Hackney's students, colleagues, and friends should remind us that such volumes can still offer a valuable contribution to historical studies." --Dan T. Carter, Journal of American History
"The Dixie Redux essays carry on a scholarly tradition sympathetic to reform, oriented to a larger audience, and crafted from distinctly southern materials. The authors constitute a veritable 'dream team' of distinguished scholars of the (Old and New) South, the Civil War, and race. To editors and the publisher, kudos." --Journal of Southern History
"In Dixie Redux historians Raymond Arsenault and Orville Vernon Burton honor historian Sheldon Hackney, gathering eclectic essays that ask what Charles W. Joyner terms 'large questions in small places.' The essays in Dixie Redux underscore how paradoxes remain central to the history of the South." --The News & Observer

About the Author:

Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and chairman of the Department of History and Politics at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. He is the author of several prize-winning books, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, and The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America.

About this edition

• Publisher: NewSouth, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1588382974
• ISBN 13: 9781588382979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Burton Orville Vernon, Arsenault Raymond