Background
Silver, James Wesley was born on June 28, 1907 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Henry Dayton and Elizabeth (Squier) Silver.
( A study of the church's role in bringing on secession a...)
A study of the church's role in bringing on secession and promoting the Civil War, by the author of Mississippi: The Closed Society. In this closely documented study, Professor James W. Silver examines the role of the church in the South during the Civil War: what part it played as a powerful social institution in shaping the mind of the South, bringing on secession, and promoting the war, and to what extent its efforts succeeded or failed.
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(Moore's book "As Recorded in the Pocket Diaries of Pvt. R...)
Moore's book "As Recorded in the Pocket Diaries of Pvt. Robert A. Moore, Co. G, 17th Mississippi Regiment, Confederate Guards, Holly Springs, Mississippi" is more than the sum of its diaries. The author, through his diaries, takes the reader from May, 1861, to his death at the Battle of Chicamauga, Sept., 1863. Readers get a personal look through the hardworking young farmer of 25. He enjoys jokes and tells a good story as he tell the larger story-- how the Confederate Army worked.
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Silver, James Wesley was born on June 28, 1907 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Henry Dayton and Elizabeth (Squier) Silver.
AB, U. North Carolina, 1927; AM, Peabody College, 1929; Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 1935; honorary doctoral degree, Morehouse College, 1967; honorary doctoral degree, University of Southern Florida, 1976.
When rioting erupted on the Ole Mission campus after James Meredith became the University of Mississippi"s first African-American student and federal troops moved in to keep order, Silver befriended Meredith. In a speech to the Southern Historical Association in the Fall of 1963, he analyzed the violence with which Mississippi was resisting desegregation. Mississippi was, he said, "a closed society" -- "totalitarian," "monolithic," "corrupt." The speech received widespread media coverage, and he expanded his analysis in a book, Mississippi: The Closed Society (1964).
His advocacy of racial change had subjected him to hostility in Mississippi and even an attempt by the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission to have him fired.
That effort failed, but Silver took a job teaching at Notre Dame University in Indiana. He taught at Notre Dame from 1965 until 1969.
He left Notre Dame to teach history at the University of South Florida until he retired in 1982.
( Mississippi: The Closed Society is a book about an insu...)
( A study of the church's role in bringing on secession a...)
(Moore's book "As Recorded in the Pocket Diaries of Pvt. R...)
(Harvest, 1966. 375-page Softcover. Square binding. Cover ...)
(Classic book)
Member State History Commission, Mississippi, 1948-1957, South Bend Human Relations Commission. Board directors Forest History Foundation With American Red Cross in Pacific area, 1945. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American SoSo.
(member executive council, president) history associations, Organization American Historians, Mississippi History Society, Rotary, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Kappa Phi.
Son of; married Margaret McLean Thompson, December 31, 1935. Children: James William, Virginia Margaret.