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History of Education: A Southern Exposure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Wayne J. Urban
Wayne J. Urban*
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Georgia State University
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The presidential address is one of the freer forms of professional communication currently in use in the American academic community. One can get a glimpse of freedom of the form by briefly perusing the presidential messages published in various historical journals over the past five or so years. A president may, like William Bouwsma, touch on a current in his own specialty because it is of “considerable importance for historians and for the larger culture of which we are a part.” And, using his own expertise in Renaissance history, he proceeded to identify changes in Renaissance historiography, with the larger theme of “the collapse of the traditional dramatic organization of Western history.” Other options which have been exercised by historian presidents include the challenge to improve teaching offered by Gilbert C. Fite to his colleages in the Southern Historical Association or the consideration of the effects of the federal government on all aspects of the historical profession offered by Richard W. Leopold to the Organization of American Historians.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Summer 1981 , pp. 131 - 145
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Copyright © 1981 by History of Education Society 

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1 Bouwsma, William J., “The Renaissance and the Drama of Western History,” American Historical Review, 39 (February, 1979): 1–15.Google Scholar

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4 I would add that the success of last year's meeting in Washington, D. C. reflected the determination of both the national society and the Southern regional group to work together to overcome the difficulties created by the boycott.Google Scholar

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7 The similarities between old left and new right have been vividly explored by one of my doctoral students in an unpublished essay, Kohler, John, “Old South Radicals and Contemporary Thought.” Google Scholar

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