Canady surveys Weatherford's work with institutions such as the YMCA, Berea College, and Fisk University and illuminates his many efforts to foster dialogue among southerners of all races about religion, race relations, and Appalachia.

Highlighting the tenuous relationship between racial and gendered rhetoric throughout the nineteenth century, Marriage on the Border offers a fresh perspective on the institution of marriage and its impact on the social fabric of the United States.

Richmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Despite its northerly position, Richmond became the Confederacy's beating heart - its capital, secondlargest city, and impenetrable citadel.