A rich and diverse look at the many identities of a rich and diverse region. More than an homage to a gifted historian, it is a stand-alone, interdisciplinary inquiry into just how complicated this thing called the South can be. It s all here, from literature to politics, race to religion, gender to genealogy, Old South to New with voodoo and a doomed barge canal as added twists. Fascinating and absolutely up-to-date. John Mayfield, author of Counterfeit Gentlemen

Honors a truly preeminent scholar with essays of very high quality and clear significance. No historian has assayed...