#202 Stephen Engle - The New South
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 107 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Stephen Engle - The New South
Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living Interview Series
My guest today is Prof. Stephen Engle, expert on the South, it's culture, society, politics and influence on the United States.
It has been said that we may not know where the American South is anymore, but we know when we are in it. Something about the South won't let go of the American imagination. Historians are fascinated by the region, its people, its culture, and its influence on this country—from the Civil War to tensions and conflicts that resonate among Americans today.
Much new scholarship has surfaced in recent decades, and historian Stephen D. Engle reassesses why the idea of the South began, and what have been the effects on this country by surveying the region, the people, and the region's cultural identity. In this thoughtful daylong program, he explores the South both as place and idea, and why its complexities remain in our modern culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show Spsonian Associates series. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm your host of all vocal saying and this is episode number 202. |
| 0:06.7 | As part of our Smithsonian Associates Art of Living series, our guest today on the not old |
| 0:15.8 | better show is Stephen Engel. Stephen Engel is a professor of history and director of the History Symposium Series at Florida Atlantic University. |
| 0:26.0 | Stephen Engel is an expert on the South, the region, the historical tension, the politics, |
| 0:32.0 | all to help us understand the South's past and present. |
| 0:37.0 | Plenary O'Connor said the South was plagued by historical hangover and well publicized sins. |
| 0:43.7 | What a brilliant metaphor to describe the region and the historical tension that exists |
| 0:48.2 | in attempting to understand the idea the south. |
| 0:50.9 | And William Faulkner made the observation that for southerners the past is not dead |
| 0:55.3 | it's not even past. |
| 0:57.2 | His work of course explored the underlying humanity of the South often buried under discrimination |
| 1:02.3 | and intolerance. |
| 1:03.6 | And it reminds us of the old Soviet joke that the future is certain, it's the past that's |
| 1:07.2 | unpredictable. |
| 1:08.2 | That of course is our guest today, Stephen Engel, who will be at the Smithsonian Associates presenting a full program, The South, |
| 1:15.5 | Exploring an American Idea, Saturday, April 28, 2018. |
| 1:21.5 | Please join me in welcoming to the Noddle Better Show via Skype, Professor Stephen |
| 1:25.8 | Engel. |
| 1:26.8 | Stephen Engel, welcome to the show. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:30.0 | Glad to be here. |
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