| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South. By Robert F. Pace. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xiv, 152 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2982-8.)

Numerous anecdotes and personal letters infuse Halls of Honor with the feel of college life in the Old South. Robert F. Pace frames his book with the concept of honor, arguing that southern college students faced competing impulses from the dictates of honor and adolescent drives. Building on the scholarship of Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Pace succeeds in privileging honor among college and university men. "A student peer-developed honor ethic" (p. 83) becomes the transitional phase between childhood and adulthood. This college culture reflected southern honor's demand for "the appearance of duty, pride, power, and self-esteem" (p. 116) and flourished in student-controlled literary debating societies, ubiquitous at antebellum colleges. Quotations from primary sources provide the language of the era and evidence for nearly every point.

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