does so with intelligence.
61 David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1988), 345; see also Peter Novick, That Noble Dream
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 74- 80.
62 Bessie L. Pierce, Public Opinion and the Teaching of History in the
United States (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926), 146-70; see also
Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country, 345; John S. Mosby, letter to Sam
Chapman, 7/4/1907, at Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,
gilderlehrman.org/collection/docs_current.html.
63 Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory (New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1991), 118.
64 Mark Halton offers an interesting discussion of the resurgence of the
Confederate flag in the 1950s and its symbolic opposition to the civil rights
movement in “Time to Furl the Confederate Flag,” Christian Century 105, no.
17 (5/18/1988): 494-96. “Embattled Emblem,” an exhibit at the Museum of the
Confederacy on the history of the Army of Northern Virginia flag from
Reconstruction to the 1990s, similarly credits its resurgence to white
opposition to civil rights. The white South is slowly giving up its identification
with the Confederacy. In 1983 even the University of Mississippi, once a
citadel of resistance to racial change, dropped the Confederate flag as its
official emblem. In 2001, Georgia removed the Confederate flag from its state
flag, and in 2004 voters supported the new design.
65 Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (New York: Harcourt,
Brace, 1939), 4:347-49.
66 Loewen and Sallis, eds., Mississippi: Conflict and Change, 145-47. John
Hope Franklin suggested renaming “Presidential Reconstruction” “Confederate
Reconstruction.”
67 American Social History Project, Who Built America? (New York:
Pantheon, 1989), 482.
68 Eric Foner, Reconstruction (New York: Harper and Row, 1988), 267.
69 Edmonia Highgate quoted in Robert Moore, Reconstruction: The Promise
and Betrayal of Democracy (New York: CIBC, 1983), 17.
70 The exception, Discovering American History, doesn’t mention Southern
Republicans at all and hardly covers Reconstruction.