| Abstract | In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Scot A. French Scot A. French is a research fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies and a doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. His dissertation is entitled "Remembering Nat Turner: The Southampton Slave Uprising in Social Memory, 1831 to the Present." Notes 1. This special issue of the Journal of American History was later published in a book; see David P. Thelen, ed., Memory and American History (Indiana University Press, 1990). 2. Confino has emerged as a leading authority on "collective memory." For his definition and a brief history of the concept, see Alon Confino, "Collective Memory," in The Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns (Garland, 1994). For an example of how he has employed the concept in his study of German nationalism, see Confino, "The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Heimat, National Memory, and the German Empire, 1871-1918," History and Memory 5 (spring-summer 1993): 42-86. For an ethnographic approach to the study of memory, see Richard Handler, Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988). 3. Frank Lawrence Owsley, "The Irrepressible Conflict," in I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, by Twelve Southerners (Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 61-91; first published in 1930. 4. W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Propaganda of History," in Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (Atheneum, 1985), 711-729; first published in 1935. 5. Wilbur J. Cash, The Mind of the South (1941; reprint, Vintage Books, 1961). 6. William R. Taylor, Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American National Character (1961; reprint, Anchor Books, 1963). 7. C. Vann Woodward, "The Search for Southern Identity," in The Burden of Southern History (Louisiana State University Press, 1968), 3-25; first published in 1960. 8. George B. Tindall, "Mythology: A New Frontier in Southern History," in The Idea of the South, ed. Frank E. Vandiver (University of Chicago Press, 1964), 1-15. 9. Paul M. Gaston, The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking (Alfred A. Knopf, 1970). 10. Malcolm X on Afro-American History, (1967; reprint, Pathfinder Press, 1990), 77. 11. Thomas A. Bailey, "The Mythmakers of American History," Journal of American History 55 (June 1968): 5-21. 12. Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1977). 13. I have borrowed the metaphor of "imagined communities" from Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflection on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983; reprint, Verso, 1991). 14. Michael O'Brien, The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979). 15. Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 1992). Copyright © 1996 Duke University Press Project MUSE® - View Citation MLA APA Chicago Endnote Scot A. French. "What Is Social Memory?" Southern Cultures 2.1 (1995): 9-18. Project MUSE. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. . French, S. A.(1995). What Is Social Memory?Southern Cultures 2(1), 9-18. The University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved January 26, 2013, from Project MUSE database. Scot A. French. "What Is Social Memory?" Southern Cultures 2, no. 1 (1995): 9-18. http://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed January 26, 2013). TY - JOUR T1 - What Is Social Memory? A1 - Scot A. French JF - Southern Cultures VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 9 EP - 18 PY - 1995 PB - The University of North Carolina Press SN - 1534-1488 UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/v002/2.1.french.html N1 - Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 1995 ER - ...
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