A few nice online photo editor images I found:
Southern Spin
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For actual documentation and truth about the Confederacy (instead of ignorance, prejudice and outright lies), see The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
Although promoted as a book that reveals information about the Civil War and the South that most history books and "Yankees" don't want you to know, the author glosses over the slavery and racism that underpinned the economy and culture of the Confederacy. He claims that the legality and constitutionality of slavery had "only a few years before (1857), been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court" - this, of course, was the Dred Scott decision by Chief Justice Roger Taney. Crocker doesn't mention the racism of the decision which denied equality to all blacks, whether enslaved or free: According to the Court, the authors of the Constitution had viewed all blacks as "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
However, Crocker claims that people in the Northern states were even more racist that those in the South - as if two wrongs make a right.
Crocker also claims - on the cover, no less - that Jefferson Davis expected to fade away naturally. Davis was adamant about preserving and extending slavery: not only into the western United States, but also South to Cuba, Central America and South American, via slave colonies set up by southern "filibusters".
Not only does this book suffer from poor scholarship, but falsehoods. Crocker is either incompetent at doing accurate researcher or is telling lies about it.
civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/review-of-the-po... - by Daniel Sauerwein
The second issue I had with this book was how Crocker viewed the Confederacy and their leaders. He characterized the South and its military and political leaders as the epitome of chivalry and honor, seeming to take the issue of slavery out of the equation. While there were some noble characteristics to the antebellum South, the sin of slavery completely negated the perceived good. He stressed the view of slavery and treatment towards African Americans held by generals like Jackson, Lee, and even Forrest, which while it may have been true, it seems to sugar coat that they fought for a country that retained slavery.
. . . Crocker’s scholarship was another area of concern, as while he cited some hard hitting authors, including James McPherson, Shelby Foote, and Gary Gallagher, he did not analyze these scholars. Further, his notations were few and far between, which left the reader questioning where he came up with some of his conclusions. This is coupled with some dubious claims made against historians, which included that professors compare the Confederacy to Nazi Germany and Lee to Erwin Rommel. I have sat in two Civil War courses with two different professors with vastly different world views and never heard this.
H.W.Crocker III has worked as a book editor at Regnery Publishing and has written for Southern Partisan magzine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing
Regnery has become noteworthy, apart from authors of its books, because of its penchant for political controversy with a high profile on the national stage. It recently launched a series of books titled "The Politically Incorrect Guide to" (multiple subjects), confronting what it conceives to be the assumptions of the nation's elites, sometimes negatively described as political correctness. The Politically Incorrect Guides have often been referred to by their backronym PIGS by supporters and opponents alike (Regnery's logo for the series features a pig's head).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Partisan
Southern Partisan is a right-wing political magazine published in the United States founded in 1979 that focuses on its Southern region and those states that were formerly members of the Confederate States of America. The magazine generally espouses a pro-southern perspective on political issues and the American Civil War. The magazine features commentary on southern culture, history, literature, the Southern Agrarians, the Civil War and Confederacy, and current political issues. It carries a news section entitled "CSA Today" covering stories from each of the eleven former Confederate states, as well as Missouri and Kentucky.
The magazine is harshly critical of political correctness and highlights news events involving what it describes as "politically correct" policy-making, such as the removal of Confederate historical monuments.
Several sources on the political left have openly accused the magazine of racism. Ed Sebesta, an anti-confederate partisan based in Dallas, Texas commonly attacks the magazine, asserting that Southern Partisan, along with Chronicles, are the " major publications" of the Confederate movement. Slate online magazine has described the Southern Partisan as a "crypto-racist, pro-Confederate magazine." In 2000, the president of People for the American Way called it "racist" and pointed to columns that criticize Martin Luther King, Jr and Nelson Mandela, and alleged that it views slavery favorably. The Times report quotes a passage about the "myth that vicious white slave traders dragged Africans from their idyllic homeland to serve as chattel for arrogant white Americans." They also note that the same article describes white slave traders as being better to the blacks than the African warlords. The Times notes that "(t)he magazine rarely writes about slavery," preferring to focus on more genteel aspects of the past. According to the Times article, Southern Partisan "takes the position that the Civil War was fought not over slavery, but over the preservation of a Southern way of life that to this day is worth preserving."
Right Side of the "Family Man" from the Will Jenkins Exhibit
Image by W&M Swem Library
Shown here is the right-hand side of Case 1 for an exhibit on Virginia Author Will Jenkins, whose pen name was Murray Leinster, on display in the Read and Relax area on the first floor of Swem Library. The exhibit was created to celebrate the Virginia General Assembly designating June 27, 2009 as Will Jenkins Day in Virginia.
Case 1 is entitled "Family Man" and includes photos, clippings, and books documenting Jenkins and his family.
The following is from the main label text for this case:
FAMILY MAN
William Fitzgerald Jenkins (who wrote many of his stories under the name Murray Leinster) was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on June 16, 1896, and died at the Francis N. Sanders Nursing Home in Gloucester on June 8, 1975. Although he lived elsewhere during his long career, he maintained his Virginia roots and kept a summer home in Gloucester, where he did much of his writing.
As an adolescent, he began selling stories to the Smart Set and other popular magazines, and at twenty-one was able to resign his position as a bookkeeper at Prudential Insurance in Newark, New Jersey to become a full-time writer.
In 1921 Will Jenkins married the former Mary Mandola; the couple subsequently had four daughters, one of whom lives with her husband at the Jenkins home in Gloucester. Mr. Jenkins served in both world wars: with the Committee of Public Information and the US Army in World War I, and with the Office of War Information in World War II.
The author’s formal education ended after the eighth grade, but his love of science-- fueled by the success of contemporaries Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers-- served him well throughout his life. He loved to invent things and write about scanners, deflectors, coders and other forms of “advanced technology.” (His 1946 story ”A Logic Named Joe” predicts the existence of networked home computers, the ability to find information online, and the inherent problems of censorship, scams, and the invasion of privacy.) Mr. Jenkins was awarded two patents on the front-projection filming method in 1955, a technique first used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In his last interview in 1972, Will Jenkins remarked that he felt a kinship with Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek stories, that they were “his kind” of science fiction. *
Even though Will Jenkins cannot claim the Star Trek stories, according to his daughter Betty DeHardit, royalty checks are still coming in.
Ronald Payne, The Last Murray Leinster Interview (Richmond: Waves Press, 1982), 11.
The following is from a label in this case about how Will Jenkins became Murray Leinster"
“I know a man who writes very well….But he doesn’t sell—because he’d rather feel like a neglected genius than a well-nourished one."
Very early in his career, Mr. Jenkins was introduced to H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, the editors of the very popular magazine Smart Set. They advised him to adopt a pen name when writing for pulp-fiction magazines in order to preserve his reputation. Murray Leinster was born. Mr. Jenkins also wrote as Louisa Carter Lee and William Fitzgerald. Later on the author reintroduced his real name, shortened to Will F. Jenkins, for more “respectable” publications, such as Collier’s, Good Housekeeping, and the Saturday Evening Post, but he never published science fiction under his own name.
* Will F. Jenkins, “What Do You Mean—Success in Writing?” Author & Journalist 22, no.5 (1937): 9.
Left Side of "Family Man" Case from the Will Jenkins Exhibit
Image by W&M Swem Library
Shown here is the left-hand side of Case 1 for an exhibit on Virginia Author Will Jenkins, whose pen name was Murray Leinster, on display in the Read and Relax area on the first floor of Swem Library. The exhibit was created to celebrate the Virginia General Assembly designating June 27, 2009 as Will Jenkins Day in Virginia.
Case 1 is entitled "Family Man" and includes photos, clippings, and books documenting Jenkins and his family.
The following is from the main label text for this case:
FAMILY MAN
William Fitzgerald Jenkins (who wrote many of his stories under the name Murray Leinster) was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on June 16, 1896, and died at the Francis N. Sanders Nursing Home in Gloucester on June 8, 1975. Although he lived elsewhere during his long career, he maintained his Virginia roots and kept a summer home in Gloucester, where he did much of his writing.
As an adolescent, he began selling stories to the Smart Set and other popular magazines, and at twenty-one was able to resign his position as a bookkeeper at Prudential Insurance in Newark, New Jersey to become a full-time writer.
In 1921 Will Jenkins married the former Mary Mandola; the couple subsequently had four daughters, one of whom lives with her husband at the Jenkins home in Gloucester. Mr. Jenkins served in both world wars: with the Committee of Public Information and the US Army in World War I, and with the Office of War Information in World War II.
The author’s formal education ended after the eighth grade, but his love of science-- fueled by the success of contemporaries Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers-- served him well throughout his life. He loved to invent things and write about scanners, deflectors, coders and other forms of “advanced technology.” (His 1946 story ”A Logic Named Joe” predicts the existence of networked home computers, the ability to find information online, and the inherent problems of censorship, scams, and the invasion of privacy.) Mr. Jenkins was awarded two patents on the front-projection filming method in 1955, a technique first used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In his last interview in 1972, Will Jenkins remarked that he felt a kinship with Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek stories, that they were “his kind” of science fiction. *
Even though Will Jenkins cannot claim the Star Trek stories, according to his daughter Betty DeHardit, royalty checks are still coming in.
Ronald Payne, The Last Murray Leinster Interview (Richmond: Waves Press, 1982), 11.
The following is from a label in this case about how Will Jenkins became Murray Leinster"
“I know a man who writes very well….But he doesn’t sell—because he’d rather feel like a neglected genius than a well-nourished one."
Very early in his career, Mr. Jenkins was introduced to H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, the editors of the very popular magazine Smart Set. They advised him to adopt a pen name when writing for pulp-fiction magazines in order to preserve his reputation. Murray Leinster was born. Mr. Jenkins also wrote as Louisa Carter Lee and William Fitzgerald. Later on the author reintroduced his real name, shortened to Will F. Jenkins, for more “respectable” publications, such as Collier’s, Good Housekeeping, and the Saturday Evening Post, but he never published science fiction under his own name.
* Will F. Jenkins, “What Do You Mean—Success in Writing?” Author & Journalist 22, no.5 (1937): 9.
