“Gone With the Wind”

Speaker: Professor David R. Goldfield, an American historian, writer, film director, and professor.

About the lecture:

The American South has always been different – slavery, secession, poverty, rural, and racially segregated – seemingly the reverse of American ideals and realities.  As novelist William Faulkner noted, in the South, the past is not even past, as the recent conflict over Confederate monuments attests.  Why is this so?  How have other regions in the U.S. contributed to the Southern mixture of myth and history? And what does its persistence say about the nation?