Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Pursuit of Southern History - Glenn Feldman
1. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and the Beginnings of Southern History - Junius P. Rodriguez
2. Broadus Mitchell: Economic Historian of the South - Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
3. E. Merton Coulter and the Political Culture of Southern Historiography - Fred Arthur Bailey
4. Frank L. Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South after Fifty Years - Anthony Gene Carrey
5. W. E. B. Du Bois: Ambiguous Journey to the Black Working Class - Joe W. Trotter
6. Rupert B. Vance: A Sociologist’s View of the South - John Shelton Reed and Daniel Joseph Singal
7. Charles S. Sydnor’s Quest for a Suitable Past - Fred Arthur Bailey
8. W. J. Cash: A Native Son Confronts the Past - Bruce Clayton
9. Defning “The South’s Number One Problem”: V. O. Key, Jr., and the Study of Twentieth-Century Southern Politics - Kari Frederickson
10. C. Vann Woodward, Southern Historian - John Herbert Roper
11. John Hope Franklin: Southern History in Black and White - John White
12. A. Elizabeth Taylor: Searching for Southern Suffragists - Judith N. McArthur
13. David M. Potter: Lincoln, Abundance, and Sectional Crisis - David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
14. David Herbert Donald: Southerner as Historian of the Nation - Jean H. Baker
15. Kenneth Stampp’s Peculiar Reputation - James Oakes
16. Continuity and Change: George Brown Tindall and the Post-Reconstruction South - Susan Youngblood Ashmore
17. Anne Firor Scott: Writing Women into Southern History - Anastatia Sims
18. “Ethos Without Ethic”: Samuel S. Hill and Southern Religious History - Ted Ownby
Notes
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Contributors
Index