Southern character : essays in honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown / edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank and Daniel Kilbride ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-286) and index.
Contents:
The Accidental Yankee : Bertram Wyatt-Brown and southern history / Charles Joyner
What then makes an Indian? : the problem of identity in the early American Southeast / Andrew K. Frank
The strange career of Gideon Gibson : an early American tragedy / Christopher Morris
The politics of honor and masculinity : political culture in the Deep South, 1820s-1861 / Christopher J. Olsen
'We are Virginians for the time being' : antebellum Quakers and regional identity in the Upper South / A. Glenn Crothers
'Ohio villains' and 'pretenders to new revelations' : Wesleyan abolitionists in the South, perfectionism, and the antebellum religious divide / Randall J. Stephens
The South and the revolutions of 1848 / Daniel Kilbride
Abraham Lincoln and southern honor / Daniel W. Stowell
'Between death and dishonor' : defending Confederate womanhood during Sherman's March / Lisa Tendrich Frank
'Neither matron nor maid' : race, gender, class, and marriage in Jim Crow Texas / Stephanie Cole
Voodoo in black and white / Jeffrey E. Anderson
Donald Davidson and the segregationist intellect / Benjamin Houston
The cross Florida Barge Canal and the politics of environmentalism / Chris Beckmann, Steven Noll, and David Tegeder
Southern conservatism and its discontents : Mel Bradford and the American right / John J. Langdale III
'Freedom is a wonderful thing, but . . .' : god, race, and sex in the late twentieth century / Andrew S. Moore.
Summary:
"Essays examining the character of the Southern gentleman, representing the works of historian Bert Wyatt-Brown and stressing the plural--not monolithic--nature of the South"--Provided by publisher.