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The Coming of the Civil War
Title
The Coming of the Civil War, The Coming of the Civil War
Identifier
dv_00207
Creator
Craven, Avery (lecturer)
Contributor
Frantz, Joe B. (project director), Mischer, Donald L. (television director), Pengra, Mike (assistant director), Hendricks, Lyle (art, set, and titles), Radio/Television, The University of Texas (producer)
Dates
circa 1962-1963
Resource
KLRU-TEMP videotape collection
Description
[Synopsis from "The History of American Civilization By Its Interpreters; A Student Guide to the Television Series" by James A. Bonar, Roger E. Willson, and The University of the State of New York]: The Civil War exerts a strong fascination for most Americans. It provides our history to a unique degree with great drama, mighty events and strong emotions. But in another sense it also provides us with our greatest failure as a nation. For, as Professor Craven points out, the war between the North and the South represents the failure of the American people to adjust their differences through the democratic political process. How it happened that the usual artifices of adjustment, accommodation, and compromise were not possible in the crucial period before the Civil War is the subject Professor Craven takes up in this lecture. Tracing both sectional and national growth from 1815 on Craven finds that the period witnessed the emergence of many important issues of public policy, virtually all of which proved amenable to political settlement. But the isolation of slavery as a sectional issue, cast in moral terms, in the decade of the 1840's proved to be more than the democratic process could handle. Craven explains that the reduction of sectional issues to the level of absolute moral values made it impossible for politicians to treat their differences in a realistic manner that could be settled through traditional political means. As an example he cites the failure of both Northern and Southern politicians to see in the efforts of Stephan A. Douglas in the 1850's what was a practical and realistic solution to the sectional impasse. Instead the politicians reacted in moral terms and, with the emergence of purely sectional parties based on an absolute moral issue, they, along with the rest of the nation, were impelled inexorably toward tragic civil conflict. Tape is dated 1974/11/09, indicating that it is a dub of an earlier recording. Notes from technician: Some slight vertical shifting in scenes. Break up before end credit, at 00:29:38. Tape was baked twice and cleaned 3 times before playback.
The Environment and the Historian
Title
The Environment and the Historian, The Environment and the Historian
Identifier
dv_00206
Creator
Woodward, C. Vann (lecturer)
Contributor
Frantz, Joe B. (project director), O’Keefe, David (television director), Pengra, Mike (assistant director), Hendricks, Lyle (art, set, and titles), Radio/Television, The University of Texas (producer)
Dates
1962-12-06
Resource
KLRU-TEMP videotape collection
Description
Lecture given by Dr. Woodward for the "American Civilization By Its Interpreters" video series. Woodward gives a personal account of his beginnings in provincial Arkansas and early hesitance to focus his work on Southern history, critiquing historical relativism along the way. He cites three inspirations for becoming a Southern historian: William Faulkner and creative writers of the 1930s Southern Renaissance, Walter Prescott Webb, and ignorance about the South that he encountered in his travels. Black and white picture with sound. Notes from transfer: Tape has physical damage at the head. Unable to get picture lock for the first 30 seconds, as well as from 00:02:44 to 00:04:37. Tape was tried on several machines to obtain best playback. Tape was baked 3 times. Each baking was followed by 5 cleaning passes. Best possible playback was achieved.
A Revision of the Civil War
Title
A Revision of the Civil War, A Revision of the Civil War
Identifier
dv_00175
Creator
Craven, Avery (lecturer)
Contributor
Radio/Television, The University of Texas (producer), Mischer, Donald L. (television director), Pengra, Mike (assistant director), Hendricks, Lyle (art, set, and titles), Frantz, Joe B. (project director)
Dates
circa 1962-1963
Resource
KLRU-TEMP videotape collection
Description
Professor Craven has long been identified as a leading figure of the revisionist movement in Civil War historiography. In this lecture Craven tells of his early interest in the agricultural history of the old South that led him to question traditional explanations of the causes of the Civil War. Before his time, most historians saw as the primary difference between North and South, and therefore as the principal cause of the Civil War, the attachment of the one section to freedom and of the other to slavery, a moral difference that made conflict between them irrepressible. But in studying the economic bases of the sections, in particular the thinking and character of a pre-Civil War Southern figure, Edmund Ruffin, Craven came to feel that the assignment of a single cause to the Civil War greatly oversimplified the matter. Craven describes how, in the course of his historical inquiry, he came to discard the easy and simple answers for an explanation that gave weight to more profound and less tractable issues. For Craven, the issue of slavery as a right or a wrong was only representative of the deeper forces of modern life that drove the North and South to confront one another in a regrettable but apparently necessary Civil War. [Synopsis from "The History of American Civilization By Its Interpreters; A Student Guide to the Television Series" by James A. Bonar, Roger E. Willson, and The University of the State of New York] Tape is dated 1974/11/09, indicating that it is a dub of an earlier generation recording. Notes from transfer: Audio is 2 channels mono. There is break up in the beginning of the program, tracking is drifting. Slight RF noise in the picture, recorded into program, example at 00:17:10. The program was recorded with wide horizontal blanking, causing black bars to the sides of the picture. There is a little tearing on the teachers hands and collar, as recorded. There is break up at the edit points at the top and end of program, on the theme song and slide.
The Subject Matter
Title
The Subject Matter, The Subject Matter
Identifier
dv_00179
Creator
Woodward, C. Vann (lecturer)
Contributor
Radio/Television, The University of Texas (producer), Frantz, Joe B. (project director), O’Keefe, David (television director), Pengra, Mike (assistant director), Hendricks, Lyle (art, set, and titles)
Dates
circa 1962-12-06
Resource
KLRU-TEMP videotape collection
Description
Having discussed in an earlier lecture how he as an historian came to terms with his environment, Professor Woodward here outlines the considerations that led him to select the specific subjects of investigation that have concerned him in his professional career. Most of his work has been done on his native South, and Woodward explains that the subjects he has chosen to investigate have resulted from a desire to clear sway the myths and legends that have given an unreal and misleading picture of that section and its history. For example, Woodward relates that a desire to understand the real nature of the tensions and extremes of Southern politics led him to an early study of the Southern populist and demagogue, Tom Watson. Later Woodward undertook to explore more fully how the South had become what it was in a massive study of the emergence a distinctive Southern system after 1877. An indication of the scope of this work is the fact that Professor Woodward found it necesaary to write a separate book on the compromise of 1877 in order to set the stage for his larger study. More recently he has done a brief study of segregation in order to place the issue of race relations into clearer perspective. Throughout his lecture Professor Woodward emphasizes the value of a deeper understanding of Southern history for a more accurate and useful knowledge of our national history. [Synopsis from "The History of American Civilization By Its Interpreters; A Student Guide to the Television Series" by James A. Bonar, Roger E. Willson, and The University of the State of New York]
Why The Southern States Seceded
Title
Why The Southern States Seceded, Why The Southern States Seceded
Identifier
dv_00176
Creator
Craven, Avery (lecturer)
Contributor
Radio/Television, The University of Texas (producer), Frantz, Joe B. (project director), Mischer, Donald L. (television director), Pengra, Mike (assistant director), Hendricks, Lyle (art, set, and titles)
Dates
circa 1962-1963
Resource
KLRU-TEMP videotape collection
Description
The question of what caused the Civil War often is treated as a long term proposition requiring extended chronological coverage, sometimes going as far back as the initial settlement of the North American colonies. While there is much merit in studying the origin and growth of those sectional differences that played a part in the conflict, it is also illuminating to look carefully at the actual "trigger" of the war--the secession of the Southern states. For, regardless of the nature and degree of the institutional differences between the sections, and aside from the question of whether or not open conflict was inevitable, it required the overt act of secession for the great events to be set in motion. In this lecture Professor Craven examines in some detail the grievances and fears that drove the South to such a desperate step. In the process Craven sheds considerable light on the state of mind of a people willing to take the calculated risk of war with their countrymen for a cause they considered just. Quoting from a wide variety of sources, Craven portrays the South after the election of Lincoln as caught up in a dilemma from which there was no avenue of escape. His account of the secession crisis has the ring of truth and gives to the historical fact the dimensions of human tragedy. [Synopsis from "The History of American Civilization By Its Interpreters; A Student Guide to the Television Series" by James A. Bonar, Roger E. Willson, and The University of the State of New York] Tape is dated 1974/10/24, indicating that it is a dub of an earlier recording.