| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Goldfield. Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred. (Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series, number 11.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2003. Pp. xvii, 123. $24.95.

This short book is by an able scholar, but it is not a work of scholarship. In three distinct essays, originally written as lectures, David Goldfield offers personal reflections on southern history and on the role of southern historians. His comments do not rise to the level of a philosophy of history. In many cases, his audience is not professional historians but the larger public. In each essay, he reveals his own political commitments—a progressive Democrat—or a position that is now almost conventional among academic historians. A more self-conscious clarification, and a critical defense, of these often assumed preferences would have added needed depth to this book.

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