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• W2294848418 abstract "Reviewed by: Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South by Timothy J. Williams Julie A. Mujic (bio) Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South. By Timothy J. Williams. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. 284. Paper, $39.95.) At a closing session of the Society of Civil War Historians biennial conference in 2010, Peter S. Carmichael made an impassioned plea for historians to consider how soldiers thought rather than only why they fought. He challenged historians to figure out how societal and cultural factors influenced the nature of why soldiers thought the way that they did. While Carmichael raised this query in relation to soldiers, Timothy Williams offers readers a cogent example of how it also pertains to civilians in the antebellum period. Intellectual Manhood considers both the formal and informal educational opportunities at the University of North Carolina during the antebellum era that shaped the ways in which students understood themselves and their society. In some ways responding to Carmichael’s The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (2005), Williams argues that [End Page 105] students in antebellum North Carolina cared more about their own “broader process of maturation” than they did issues such as slavery that point to the development of a regional identity (1). Williams contends that as university students in North Carolina actively sought the markers of the transition from boyhood to manhood, they acted in ways that reflected national trends of middle-class culture, rather than a distinct southern elite class. Instead of an inevitable march toward civil war, Williams finds that North Carolina university students’ lives were “defined more by continuity than change” (11). Historians may be able to look back and note moments of tension that were ultimately significant in the fate of the nation, but Williams insists that despite these currents, some southerners focused on “maturation within university life and . . . on self-improvement” (11). Williams succeeds brilliantly in transforming the existing narrative of southern collegiate experience, proving that students in North Carolina “did not automatically or blindly embrace regional arguments” to address change in their lives or society until the “very end of the 1850s” (171). Expertly shifting the context of his book between North Carolina, the region, and the nation to make his case, Williams argues that it was only on the brink of war that North Carolina students saw education as creating southerners instead of Americans. In essence, Williams reminds us that historians should pause and take heed of their tendency to present the antebellum period in a strictly regional or sectional manner. One of the most striking features of Intellectual Manhood is the broad and deep source base employed by its author. Williams went far beyond the usual assortment of letters and diaries and delved into private and printed materials from university groups such as literary societies and magazines, including “more than 800 extant addresses and speeches archived by the Dialectic and Philanthropic [Literary] Societies” of UNC (11). Additionally, he created a database to analyze “nearly 4,000 questions debated” by both of the literary societies at UNC. Williams uses these resources to present seven students as vignettes throughout the book. Through these case studies, he examines themes such as the daily challenges of college life, the ways the students logged and wrote about what they were reading, reflections on women, and various sexual escapades undertaken by the students. He explores both the formal curriculum—including speeches made by students in their classrooms—and the students’ informal educations, composed of leisure activities such as reading, debating, and dating. Because Williams draws on so many genres of literature to compile his analysis, this book will be valuable to a multitude of scholars in various fields, including southern history, nineteenth-century social, cultural, and intellectual history, and the history of education. His work complements and is in [End Page 106] conversation with that of historians such as Stephanie McCurry, Jennifer Green, Stephen Berry, and Lorri Glover. Williams structures the book in three parts: “Idealizing Intellectual Manhood,” “Constructing Intellectual Manhood,” and “Applying Intellectual Manhood.” The first two parts contain multiple chapters, while the third is limited to a fascinating examination..." @default.
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