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Reading Jeff Davis

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Steve Davis

“No major figure in the Civil War stands more in need of a thoroughly researched and judiciously presented biography than Jefferson Davis,” wrote James I. Robertson in Civil War Times Illustrated in August 1972. But that doesn’t mean that a … Continue reading →

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Robert Penn Warren’s Reflections on Jefferson Davis’s Citizenship

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

As I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity recently to pick up Robert Penn Warren’s short 1980 book Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back. It’s beautifully written, and Warren’s ambivalence about his native South … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Authors, Leadership--Confederate, Lincoln, Memory, Personalities, Slavery | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Gerrit Smith, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, Jimmy Carter, John Brown, New Yorker, Robert Penn Warren, Secret Six, Slavery, Southern identity, what-if | 8 Comments

Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis, and the Construction of a Monument

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

In his 1980 essay “Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back,” first printed in The New Yorker and later published as a short book, Robert Penn Warren reflected on the construction of a monument to former Confederate President Jefferson Davis. That … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back

Reading Jeff Davis

Robert Penn Warren’s Reflections on Jefferson Davis’s Citizenship

Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis, and the Construction of a Monument

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