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Dabney H. Maury founded the Southern Historical Society on April 15, 1869, in New Orleans. [5] Maury and the eight other founding members donated family papers, books, and artifacts to the society to form its initial collection. Its first publication began in 1876 and continued until 1959.
The collections held in the Southern Historical Collection are described in online and print finding aids, which contain information on the history or background of the entity (person, family, or organization) that created the collection, as well as a description or list of most of the materials in the collection itself. [2]
Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.
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It was organized on November 2, 1934. Its objectives are the promotion of interest and research in Southern history, the collection and preservation of the South's historical records, and the encouragement of state and local historical societies in the South. As a secondary purpose the organization fosters the teaching and study of all areas of ...
Kulikoff, Allan. "A Modest Proposal to Resolve the Crisis in History" Journal of the Historical Society (June 2011) 11#2 pp 239–263, on the tension between social history and cultural history; Link, Arthur, and Rembert Patrick, eds. Writing Southern History (1966) 502 pp; scholarly essays on historiography of the chief topics
He was editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly for 50 years, and published 26 books on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. By the late 20th century, historians were generally describing Coulter's body of work as "historical apologies justifying Southern secession , defending the Confederate cause, and condemning Reconstruction."