the masculinization, a fix of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with rebecca harding davisrk twain, and frederick douglass. today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know.

demasculinization, effects of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with rebecca harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. the text itself stays the same but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. so how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. i should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, "a fire never extinguished." david white and a few others of us -- it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that? is that whitman, emerson? who said "a fire never extinguished"? i have been doing a little research and have one possible source. one is edward everett hale, a well-known unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. he is best known for his short story "the man without a country," published in "the at

demasculinization, effects of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with rebecca harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know.