Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Pursuit of Southern History	1
1	Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and the Beginnings of Southern History	14
2	Broadus Mitchell: Economic Historian of the South	25
3	E. Merton Coulter and the Political Culture of Southern Historiography	32
4	Frank L. Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South after Fifty Years	49
5	W. E. B. Du Bois: Ambiguous Journey to the Black Working Class	61
6	Rupert B. Vance: A Sociologist's View of the South	76
7	Charles S. Sydnor's Quest for a Suitable Past	88
8	W. J. Cash: A Native Son Confronts the Past	112
9	Defining "The South's Number One Problem": V. O. Key, Jr., and the Study of Twentieth-Century Southern Politics	123
10	C. Vann Woodward, Southern Historian	134
11	John Hope Franklin: Southern History in Black and White	151
12	A. Elizabeth Taylor: Searching for Southern Suffragists	167
13	David M. Potter: Lincoln, Abundance, and Sectional Crisis	177
14	David Herbert Donald: Southerner as Historian of the Nation	191
15	Kenneth Stampp's Peculiar Reputation	202
16	Continuity and Change: George Brown Tindall and the Post-Reconstruction South	212
17	Anne Firor Scott: Writing Women into Southern History	233
18	"Ethos Without Ethic": Samuel S. Hill and Southern Religious History	247
	Notes	261
	Select Bibliography	311
	Contributors	336
	Index	341