| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South. By Dan R. Frost. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. xiv, 207 pp. $27.00, ISBN 1-57233-104-6.)

In this brief book, Dan R. Frost considers the social, cultural, and intellectual function of nineteenth-century southern higher education and the extent to which it shaped postbellum regional development. Thinking Confederates takes as its main premise the notion that Confederate veterans, out of their wartime experiences, saw southern defeat as the product of regional deficiencies, and they believed that higher education had a special role in remaking their region. The antebellum southern college was a thoroughly conservative institution. Resistant to secular ideas and to social change, exclusively white, male, middle class, and allied with the slaveholding class, college leaders subscribed to a concept of progress, argues Frost, alien to industrializing societies. Antebellum southern colleges and universities sought independence from "foreign" influences from the North, and many of them adopted curricula that stressed martial values. . . .

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