Northernizing the South

by Richard Nelson Current

147 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1983

About the author

Called "the dean of Lincoln scholars", Richard Nelson Current earned a B.A. in 1934 from Oberlin College, and M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1935, a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1940. Among the institutions at which Current taught over the course of his career was Rutgers University, Hamilton College, Northern Michigan University, Lawrence University, Mills College, Salisbury State University, the University of Illinois, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

[Cameron L. · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book largely about Southern perceptions of differences between North and South and how those differences perceived by both are largely illusory. Also posits that "Southernism" is the romantic past of the nation and that Southern-ness is an established part of the national consciousness. Also, the South, following the Civil War and Reconstruction, became vehemently anti-northern because of perceptions, real or imagined, of northern colonization and an attempt to make the South American.