| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Dan R. Frost. Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 207. $27.00.

Resistance versus reform, cycles versus progress, Old South versus New South, classics versus applied sciences, Civil War generation versus their successors: these are the oppositions through which Dan R. Frost seeks to examine the idea of progress as it was developed in the South's postwar colleges for white males. Most of the presidents and professors of these institutions were former Confederate officers who took the positions out of a desire to maintain a status commensurate with their stature at a time when traditional opportunities in planting, politics, and the professions were few. Having witnessed the devastating disadvantages resulting from their region's reliance on agriculture, these men sought to introduce curricular reforms aimed at raising a new generation of men trained in the technology of the times who could set the South on the road to prosperity. In doing so, they helped develop an ideology of progress that, Frost argues, both validates their status as intellectuals, undermining the conventional academic wisdom that views them as gentlemanly leaders hostile to change, and challenges the efforts of southern Progressive educators of the late nineteenth century to take sole credit for the "educational awakening" of the 1880s and 1890s. . . .

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