“ One South Carolinian who grew up early in the twentieth century did not learn that the South had lost the war until he was twelve years old. ‘It was one of the saddest awakenings I ever had,’ he recal… Paul D. Escott
“ The past is the occupational realm of historians—their daily work—and scholars have debated what their stance toward these social issues should be. As citizens and professionals, historians may natura… Paul D. Escott
“ In the United States the continued influence of the old elite meant that southern politics fell under the domination of a Democratic Party that gloried the Confederacy, the Lost Cause, the Ku Klux Kla… Paul D. Escott
“ What southern whites further sought, and in a sense demanded, was respect. This the North provided after 1876 in paeans to the courage and dedication of soldiers on both sides. Resentment of northern… Paul D. Escott
“ War cannot eliminate differing ideas and viewpoints, and partisans of the defeated side do not disappear. Though subjugated, they become a sizable political constituency in the postwar period. A dicta… Paul D. Escott
