J. K. Bettersworth
John Knox Bettersworth (1909-1991) was a history professor and author in Mississippi.[1][2]
James W. Loewen wrote critically of the bigotry and inaccuracy in Betterworth's high school textbooks that were standard in Mississippi schools for decades[3] and Betterworth's work was contrasted with the textbook Loewen and Charles Sallis co-edited in 1974 in Sallis's obituary.[4] Rebecca Miller Davis described Bettersworth's textbooks as stuck in a Lost Cause mentality.[5]
Writings[edit]
- Confederate Mississippi: The People and Policies of a Cotton State in Wartime (1943)
- People’s College: A history of Mississippi State (1953)
- Mississippi: A History (1959)
- South of Appomatox
- Mississippi in the Confederacy (1961)
- Mississippi the Land and the People (1981)
- Your Mississippi (1975)
- People’s University: The centennial history of Mississippi State (1980)[6]
Articles[edit]
- ”Mississippi Historiography” (1957)[7]
- ”Humor in the Old Southwest: Yesterday and Today” Mississippi Historical Quarterly 1964[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "Biography and works of John K. Bettersworth, Mississippi historian". www.mswritersandmusicians.com. Mississippi Writers Project.
- ^ Giles, William L. (1991). "John Knox Bettersworth: A Tribute". The Mississippi Quarterly. 45 (1): 3–7. JSTOR 26475215 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Loewen, Jim (Dec 7, 2014). "How Two Historians Responded to Racism in Mississippi | History News Network". historynewsnetwork.org.
- ^ Nossiter, Adam (2024-02-16). "Charles Sallis, 89, Dies; Upended the Teaching of Mississippi History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
- ^ Miller Davis, Rebecca. "The Three R's—Reading, 'Riting, and Race: The Evolution of Race in Mississippi History Textbooks, 1900-1995" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-08-21.
- ^ Martin, Charles H. (June 25, 2010). Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252077500 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Bibliography of Mississippi History". opac2.mdah.state.ms.us.
- ^ Cohen, Hennig; Dillingham, William B. (June 25, 1994). Humor of the Old Southwest. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820316055 – via Google Books.