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Long Gray Lines
Rod Andrew Jr.
其他書名
The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915
出版
Univ of North Carolina Press
, 2003-01-14
主題
History / Military / United States
History / United States / 19th Century
Education / Schools / Levels / Elementary
ISBN
0807875341
9780807875346
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TU_qCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms, join a corps of cadets, and subject themselves to constant military discipline. Several southern black colleges also adopted a military approach.
Challenging assumptions about a distinctive "southern military tradition," Rod Andrew demonstrates that southern military schools were less concerned with preparing young men for actual combat than with instilling in their students broader values of honor, patriotism, civic duty, and virtue. Southerners had a remarkable tendency to reconcile militarism with republicanism, Andrew says, and following the Civil War, the Lost Cause legend further strengthened the link in southerners' minds between military and civic virtue.
Though traditionally black colleges faced struggles that white schools did not, notes Andrew, they were motivated by the same conviction that powered white military schools--the belief that a good soldier was by definition a good citizen.