In the wake of their defeat in the Civil War, many southern intellectuals recognized that their institutions had failed to supply antebellum graduates with the skills needed to compete with the North. Thus, educators who had previously served as Confederate officers led an effort to promote academic reform throughout the region. In Thinking Confederates, Dan R. Frost details how these men set about transforming southern higher education, shifting their schools from a classical orientation to a new emphasis on science and engineering. Although they espoused a reverence for the past, they recognized that the eradication of slavery had been necessary for southern progress, and they upheld an idea of a New South that embraced beliefs both in the ""Lost Cause"" and in national reconciliation.
- ISBN13 9781572337312
- Publish Date 15 August 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Tennessee Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 207
- Language English