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Understanding The American South: A Book List, Part One
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
Pastoral and Politics in the Old South: amzn.to/43O0Rti
The Southern Tradition : The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism: amzn.to/3PN42f0
Still Rebels, still Yankees, and other essays: amzn.to/3xkR6ql
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I: amzn.to/3VIdt38
Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South: amzn.to/3TVlGQ1
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As a Catholic, Southern and descendent of Confederate soldiers, I appreciate this video and channel alot! Keep up the good work Dr. Harrelson!
Historian here (though southern history is not my area of expertise, I'm a Cold War kinda guy). I'd be curious to hear your take/critique on Eric Foner's Reconstruction. Hope you can address it in a video and I greatly look forward to the rest of this series. Keep up the great content Dr.
I would also like to hear you take on reconstruction.
I've just learned that my family history is from the South, and that I have family that fought for the confederacy. Because of this, I've become very interested in what you've been talking about these days. Thank you, Dr. Harrelson!
My family is from the North but I truly enjoy hearing about the South for someone who can speak about it from an educated background! Now I can learn some true history.
Thank you Dr. Harrelson & for you Pipe Cottage channel which I also really enjoy & smoke along with you!😁😎👍👍
PS I’m from Southwest. 🏜️
God bless you sir. I enjoy your videos and would like to hear more of the Celtic connection to southern culture.
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer is a good start.
Appreciate you putting this list together. God bless you
God please make more content like this! As a person with a processing disorder due to stress, your voice calmed me down enough to want to learn.
Enjoyed your video and intend to continue following your "lessons" on the South. You are indeed covering a portion of American History that I need to look deeper into. Please continue to share your thoughts and insights. Ron
About 8 years ago I had a professor recommend Roll, Jordan,Roll by Mr. Genovese. This completely changed my perception of the south. I appreciate the effort to educate the world on Gods country. Thanks for the good work!
The Southern Tradition at Bay by Richard Weaver and also Why the South Will Survive are two others that I would like to hear your opinion of
Good list.
Born a NY Copperhead, but spent a ton in the South and love her culture and land.
We'd likely be living in the Alabama hills if not deciding to be near my wife's family until they pass.
Thank you for the book list. I am a transplant to Kentucky from Chicago via Tokyo. (There is a long story there.)
I was a world history major for my undergrad. I want to learn more about the South. I am sure there is plenty to learn.
I am currently after 33 years getting my degree in history and am focusing on southern history. This has been something I’ve been waiting on for a while now. I’ve always loved history but here recently as I am going through my current classes I am seeing alot of what you’re talking about being taught to high schoolers who are doing duel enrollment, and these children eat it like it biscuits and gravy. Being from the great state of Georgia it pains me to hear how uneducated the next generation is when it comes to their own history .
I found this very, very interesting, Sir. Here is South Africa, I am also a historian, and Shelby Foote is also one of my absolute favourites. Kind regards
I've enjoyed the pipe cottage and now this channel even more.
I majored in History and have taken a winding trail to learn more about Southern history and culture. Starting with Albion's Seed in my college days.
The Scots-Irish/Backcountry element of the South seems to be very alive and well documented. "Born Fighting" by Webb is a good example. A culture I'm proud to have ancestry from and had contributed so much to what people think of as American.
That being said. What about the Cavalier/Tidewater culture of the South? This culture largely led the early United States and held onto the golden chain of continuity back to Christedom and Western Civilization in a way the other folkways in Albions Seed didn't. Now these people seem invisible. Is it cultural amnesia from being so unpopular?
I would like to hear you speak more about the Tidewater culture. Good books on this culture and history. What is left of them in America? Any chance of a revival?
My wife and I are also converts to Catholicism, 6 years now, feels like coming home.
Thanks so much for sharing your work. God Bless.
Im very interested in the Cavalier/Tidewater or Royalist side of American history. Sometimes people forget all of America, even North America has monarchist background. And a Catholic one too (The Spanish Conquest, Scots, Irishmen, Catholic Englishmen, etc)
Mister Shelby Foote's books on the Civil War are a true treasure.
I’m definitely going to have to check these out. Thank you sir. God bless ya.
Thank you for sharing more recommended reading, Dr. Harrelson.
Thank you so much for the recommendations Dr Harrelson. My daddy is from Mississippi and I grew up in Virginia so the history of the south has always intrigued me. Hope all is well! God Bless!
I really appreciate you sharing this information with us. My mother's family has been in the Treutlen County Georgia area since the late 1770's. Dad's family has been traced back to the Charleston South Carolina area in the 1860's. I am looking forward to seeing your videos on southern history. I am currently attempting to study and do research on the Southern Black Soldiers who fought for the South in the War of Northern Aggression. Thanks again
excellent video! thank you for posting
Hello Dr. Harrelson,
Thank you for the new reading list. You introduced me to Shelby Foot, and other Southern writers.
I recently finished "I'll Take My Srand' and am currently reading "Albion's Seed".
Thanks for expanding my reading horizons.
I just finished Albion’s Seed. It’s a great book.
I'm interested in the true southern history, not what is taught in school nowadays. More so to properly teach my son. Thanks for the recommendations.
I absolutely LOVE this guy and his channel! What a treasure, just like the Abbeville Institute!
I have all those books but one. Your accent is reminiscent of one of my heroes Senator Sam Ervin.
Thank you sir for another informative video. Have been a teacher for 23 years and the books you discuss are a great start for people trying to understand us and themselves in the process. Would you consider discussing a booklist concerning Southern industrialism beginning possibly with Danial Pratt/Josiah Gorgas preceding and during the war and contrasting the agrarian South in the years following. Have been reading Francis Butler Simkins- A History of the South.
Thank you! Great video! Long story short, I was talking to a few co-workers about my new adventure into pipe smoking and was interested in southern life style and traditions. And it was over heard by another co-work and the first thing out of her mouth was that I was racist and I liked slavery. I was so shocked. She told me I need to open my mind and be woke. My reply was, maybe your mind should be opened and learn to read a book. 2 months later she still won't say a word to me, and I don't care. Now tell me who is racist!
Been waiting for this, thank you Dr Harrelson!
I'll definitely be finding these books. Thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to more
Blessed to have been born and raised in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. We are dripping with rich history or at least we are until it’s erased from the pages of history by certain groups in this world.
I first found Shelby Foote in Ken Burns' "The Civil War". He's my favorite part about that documentary, and I still watch it once a year.
Foote truly stole the show
Interesting. I've not heard an intellectual take on Southern history. In my experience it has been explained with fists first, both literally and figuratively. I'm a great fan of President Lincoln and regardless of the wrongs of 160 years ago I'm proud that North and South both belong to the great United States of America. But I'm no Yankee: Mom from California and Dad from old Maryland. I also had a close "Godmother' who lived in Florida (by way of Maryland) who spoke of The War of Northern Aggression, was a Daughter of the Confederacy, and had a decidedly conservative outlook. So I'm interested in what you have to say. Thank you, and Happy Easter!
We absolutely love all of your channels. You educate us and you make us feel normal in a world where ignorant people want to erase history. Oh and yes we love our Tobacco pipes and cigars. God bless you and you family. ❤ JT & JUDYLYNN
Thank you for sharing this, Dr Harrelson. Jefferson Davis requiescat en pace.
Great list sir. I read Albion’s seed many years ago and found it informative. What would be lovely is, if you are disposed to produce an episode on fiction, the wonderful world of Wendell Berry’s Port William. I recently read A Place on Earth and the Memory of Old Jack, and intend to read the entirety of the series.
Happy Easter haircut! Nice! I know where else you can post this if you want. 😊
Excellent show
I would love to see Dr. Alan Harrelson handle the disparaging claims made about the South and Southern values by Thomas Sowell in his video on black culture and ebonics... The rural south took a fair beating in that lecture, and I have yet to come across a response that puts me at ease.
It is two hours long, and titled "The Origin of Black American Culture and Ebonics." It is still on TH-cam as of this comment.
I enjoy what you have to say. I hope that you and many others are able to charge back against the revisionist academics. As Churchill once said, history is written by the victors. In that context, modern education exaggerates the sins of the South or completely makes them up. God bless.
Like Mr. Genovese, I'm originally from New York City but moved to Texas in 1981 and consider myself a lover of the South, especially Texas. Welcome to the Catholic church, btw, as a born and raised Catholic, I continue to be encouraged with the rise of conversions in these United States and the world, especially in the backdrop of some very difficult times for the Bride of Christ. Looking forward to continuing to journey along the south with y'all.
I consider Texas its own thing, apart from the South.
I appreciate your content and look forward to more Southern History. It would be interesting to take trip back to the founding to understand, from a southern perspective, the prevalent issues that started fueling the division.
Born and schooled in the north, and as such I can can definitively tell you that the word: agriculture, was not uttered once during any of our small handful of lessons regarding the Civil War. As i recall we watched Glory, unattended by our teacher, proctor really, who was ironically on a smoke break for the duration of the film. Abraham Lincoln did all the heavy lifting and the southerners couldn't digest living without their slaves. That was the explicit extent of the lesson. To note, that was in the mid 90's. Gross at the time to witness, as somebody who had a thirst for historical truth, repugnant as a studied adult decades later.
Good Evening Dr. Harrelson! Would you ever give a library tour? As an Aspiring PhD candidate in American History I’d love to see the space you work and read in.
I'd like to hear more about Southern honor, the Knights of the Golden Circle, Confederate gold, the Civil War, the great Southern warriors of Lee's army and much, much more.
I am a great admirer of Lee’s. I would recommend reading the four volume work R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman. In it, you can find a great example of the life of a Southern Aristocrat and the honor that came with that. That work traces Lee’s lineage to knights who served in the Third Crusade under Richard the Lionheart. So you will get a good example of the lineage as well as the every day facts about his life. There is also the book Lee’s Lieutenants by Freeman as well.
An example that I always give that demonstrates Southern honor and courage is that Lee’s chief of staff, I believe that is who it was, said that the men knew the war was over when the Siege of Petersburg began in July of 1864 but that “his men fought more for the man then for the cause”. That is something that is pretty much unfathomable today. Lee was a man of such noble character and such honor that his men were literally willing to fight and die in combat solely for him. They honored Lee with their fidelity and service and Lee was a man of such character that he was worthy of that honor. If you read Freeman’s four volume work on Lee then you will find many stories that will give you an example of what you are asking about.
@@thefreeman8791 Thank you very much. From the little I know it seems that Lee was the master strategist while Stonewall Jackson was better at handling the tactics and the lower level of operations. Once Jackson was killed it seems that Lee's effectiveness decreased. They were one hell of a team. Regardless of the ethics involved in the war, I have a deep admiration for the brave and innovative way the South fought. General Nathan Bedford Forest is another extraordinary soldier. Ditto for Jeb Stuart. It was a fascinating war and it produced some exceptional men. Enjoy your evening.
I appreciate the reading advice!
My Father in law is a schoolteacher who Majored in US History, and recently recommended I read “The Killer Angels,” and I love it so far.
What would be your choice for a first time pipe buyer to smoke while reading these books?
Thank you, and God bless you and your family
I’m a pipe maker and I’ll sell you one. 😁
Excellent video!
Happy Easter season Dr. Harrelson. Thank you for this list. I look forward to reading these. Gonna read the Church and the Land first
Food is apart of culture. I would love to hear about thst inregards to southern history and culture
Blessings to you!
Thank you Dr. Harrelson; I agree that Marxism has nothing instructive to say about the human soul or human culture, hence the tremendous vacuum in American education (regional or otherwise) today. I've long had an interest in the Southern agrarians (Warren, Davidson, Lytle and others) and regret seeing them shuffled offstage by changing fads. The continuum of great southern thought and writing did not end with Allen Tate or even Wendell Berry. Your voice is much needed now.
It’s nice to find a proper southern historian.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Love the intro music
If you haven't already, check out Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. Published by 3 journalists of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut.
Could you explain some of the differences in material culture and fashion/aesthetics of the South versus other regions in the U.S.?
What a valuable service you are doing. Your book choices are solid. What theme you may want to pursue is our Southern military heritage and contributions, both pre- and post-WBTS.
Being from Texas, I’d love to hear more about the impact of the addition of Texas and the Mexican War.
It strikes me as poignant tragedy that brothers in arms who fought together in victory would nearly 20 yrs hence be shedding each other’s blood.
Southern writers are the best: Faulkner, Flannery o'Conner, Mark Twain and Nic Pizzolatto. Do I need to say more? And don't even get me started on the Blues, bible thumping, grits, guts, gumbo, shrimps, soul food, Southern Comfort, Southern honor and just plain old good manners. There ain't nothing better. Southern by the grace of God.
Greetings and thank you from Edgefield, SC
I would like to hear you take on reconstruction.
Great video. I love hearing about historical books. Southern History in Particular
I am excited for part II of this video!
Fascinated. Ready for more.
Love this! Putting these on my book list to read/buy!
Fascinating stuff. Keep it coming.
Listening thanks 👍🔥🤟⛪👨👩👧👦🇺🇸 Appalachian here WV
Good presentation. Monuments provided an opportunity for everyone to learn about a person, an area, or a belief if you were truly interested. Many of the various monuments brought down no longer provides a point to start a quest for more history no matter if you agreed or disagreed with the background.
I made a comment once that in order to understand what the south was thinking you need to research it. I was accused of being racist because I went against an "expert" from UC Berkeley.
This is what I was waiting for. Thank you for this!
What part of South Carolina are you from? Your accent is similar to my cousins from Camden. I'm a native Charlestonian.
The CSA Constitution and Alexander Stephens beg to differ on Race not being the "Cornerstone" of the Confederacy and the Jim Crow South. To a lesser extent,, and arguably, I also include the Modern American South and even the US more broadly.
Frankly Im stunned at this apologia. The CSA and up until VERY recently the "Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy" sought to PRESERVE vs defend "an agrarian lifestyle." I personally don't think one can preserve or defend the historical Southern "Agrarian Ideal" whilst credibly boasting the Ante Bellum South's "serious" gradual emancipation efforts.
Been waiting to hear you elaborate on the major, historical ‘stain’ on this topic (as an ignorant, but open minded outsider)…interesting, but certainly not surprising, if the south was conveniently scapegoated in that respect
If you haven’t already tried civil war reenacting I highly suggest you give it a try I promise it’s the most fun you’ll ever have while uncomfortable
America is conservative except for pockets of urban activity. America should be a colorblind meritocracy.
I’ve just started to dip my toe into Southern fiction: Mark Twain and Flannery O’Connor. I want to read Faulkner and more. Any recommendations on where I should go next with Faulkner and the like?
@BrionMcClanahan makes some great content!
"Confederates in the Attic" and should be on your list.
History is written by the victors, whether it is correct or not.
Thank you Dr. Keep it coming were listening in Florida i love my hunting fishing and living every day country as it gets as a conservative 🎉
I am reading an excellent book right now called “Puritan’s Empire: A Catholic Perspective on American History” By: Charles Coulombe which is really good.
Does any of y'all know where I can go looking for Confederate gold?
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As a Southerner and cradle Catholic I’ve recently become interested in Catholic history in the South. I’m currently reading Charles Coulombe’s “Puritan’s Empire” which has a chapter on the Spanish and French explorations and colonization but doesn’t go beyond that. I’m very interested in Catholic history beyond the Spanish and French through the current epoch. I’m curious whether you have a similar interest.
@wvc5150 Have you read any Flannery O'Connor?
I'm amazed that an educated man like Dr. Harrelson would mispronounce the word "archipelago."