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Page 68 GENOVESE FORUM Diane Miller Sommerville Like most eager graduate students on the job market, I vastly overprepared for my AHA interviews, which, thankfully, now seem like a lifetime ago. One of the questions I imagined my interviewers would ask was, what do you believe to be the most important book published in southern history (as I considered myself then as now, ï¬rst and foremost, a southern historian)? Needless to say, the question was never posed; interviewers showed much greater interest in the more pedestrian tasks of determining what teaching gaps I could ï¬ll in their departments and in sizing me up as a collegial colleague. At long last, it seems, I now have an audience and a forum for that long-ignored question, as well as my response. Professors Livingston and Sinha have offered wonderful, thorough analyses and synopses of the published work of Eugene Genovese and its impact on the ï¬eld of southern history. Some of what I have to say, therefore, is a mere reiteration of their points. Foremost, what I believe to be Genoveseâs greatest contribution to the ï¬eld is his attentiveness to analysis. As we all know, Genovese relied on many of the
Radical History Review – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2004
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