Remarkably removed from the devotional, certifying, and celebratory view of the South that has dominated books of this genre, The Southern State of Mind address

The American South has always been a region of contradictions—at once a cradle of tradition and a hotbed of change. Southern States of Mind: Politics, Power,

More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. I