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Journal of Southern History May 2023 Volume LXXXIX No 2

Green and the Gray: Irish in the Confederate States of America

The new issue of the Journal of Southern History, published by the Southern Historical Association has arrived in my mailbox.

Volume LXXXIX, No. 2 (May 2023)

Articles include:

“Catholic Paternalism and Slavery’s Capitalism: Bishop John England’s Defense of Domestic Slavery and the Interstate Slave Trade” written by David Roach, a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor University.

“The Rhetoric of Insurrection and the Fear: The Politics of Slave Management in Confederate Georgia” written by David T. Gleeson,  a professor of American history at Northumbria University.

“Southern History in Periodicals, 2022: A Selected Bibliography”

“Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasurer”

Also included are a large selection of book reviews and a section of book notes.

David T. Gleeson is the author of The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America.

Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson’s sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view of the subject, Gleeson considers the role of Irish southerners in the debates over secession and the formation of the Confederacy, their experiences as soldiers, the effects of Confederate defeat for them and their emerging ethnic identity, and their role in the rise of Lost Cause ideology.

Focusing on the experience of Irish southerners in the years leading up to and following the Civil War, as well as on the Irish in the Confederate army and on the southern home front, Gleeson argues that the conflict and its aftermath were crucial to the integration of Irish Americans into the South. Throughout the book, Gleeson draws comparisons to the Irish on the Union side and to southern natives, expanding his analysis to engage the growing literature on Irish and American identity in the nineteenth-century United States.

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Southern Historical Association Call for Submisssions Snell Prize in European History

Call for Submissions:

SNELL PRIZE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 2022

European History Section, Southern Historical Association

The John L. Snell Memorial Prize is named for Professor John L. Snell (1923-1972) who was a distinguished scholar and diplomatic historian and a founder of the European History Section.  A bomber pilot during World War II, he taught at Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Ph.D. in 1950.

The Snell Prize is given annually to the graduate student who submits the best seminar research paper in European history, written within the past year.  “European” is defined as encompassing the entire continent, including Russia, from pre-history to the present.

The Prize winner will be honored at the annual lunch meeting of the Section in conjunction with the Southern Historical Association meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, in November 2023.  The award carries a stipend of $100.  The Snell Award winner also receives one complimentary year of student membership in the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association.

The competition is open to graduate students of any member of the Section or of a program at a Southern college or university.

 

All papers must meet the following criteria:

  1. Students may submit only one paper.
  2. Only papers written during the academic year immediately preceding the granting of the award, including summer 2023, are acceptable.
  3. The content of the paper must focus on European history (“European” is defined as encompassing the entire continent, including Russia, from pre-history to the present).
  4. A letter of endorsement from the supervising faculty member or adviser must accompany the submission. The letter should confirm that paper was written during the academic year immediately preceding the granting of the award, including summer 2023.
  5. The competition is open only to seminar papers, the length of which shall not exceed 50 pages, including footnotes or endnotes (the bibliography does not count toward this limit).
  6. While seminar papers may be related to prospective theses or dissertations, they may not be edited-down versions of completed theses or dissertations.
  7. Manuscripts must be typed in Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced with 1-inch margins on all sides, and include a bibliography and the customary documentation.

One copy must be sent to all of the following three judges by 1 August 2023:

Dr. Lee Farrow                                          Dr. Margaret Peacock                       Dr. Suzanne Farmer

LFarrow@aum.edu                                   mepeacock@ua.edu                         Farmer07@nsuok.edu

The John L. Snell Papers may be found at the University of North Carolina, Wilson Special Collections Library.

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