Persistent Callings: Seasons of Work and Identity on the Oregon Coast, Joseph E. Taylor

Автор: Schwehn Kaethe, Lagerquist L. DeAne
Название: Claiming Our Callings: Toward a New Understanding of Vocation in the Liberal Arts
ISBN: 0199341052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199341054
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This volume shows how attention to vocation promotes the civic good promised by liberal arts education. The contributors claim their own academic callings and reflect on their practices for fostering students` ability to claim their vocations.

Автор: Kevin M. Levin
Название: Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War`s Most Persistent Myth
ISBN: 1469653265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469653266
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms.

Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.