Where These Memories Grow

History, Memory, and Southern Identity

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Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

University of North Carolina Press

Due/Published October 2000, 384 pages, paper

ISBN 0807848867

This collection presents new perspectives on how southerners across two centuries and from Texas to North Carolina have interpreted their past. Thirteen contributors explore the workings of historical memory among groups as diverse as white artisans in early-nineteenth-century Georgia, African American authors in the late nineteenth century, and Louisiana Cajuns in the twentieth century. In the process, they offer critical insights for understanding the many communities that make up the American South. As ongoing controversies over the Confederate flag, the Alamo, and depictions of slavery at historic sites demonstrate, southern history retains the power to stir debate. This collection places these and other conflicts over the recalled past into historical context.

Contributors: Bruce E. Baker, Catherine W. Bishir, David W. Blight, Holly Beachley Brear, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kathleen Clark, Michele Gillespie, John Howard, Gregg D. Kimball, Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, C. Brenden Martin, Anne Sarah Rubin, Stephanie E. Yuhl