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Books for Old South Class–Spring 2011
I’ve just completed selecting my books for the Southern U.S. History course that I’m teaching in the spring semester. This course is basically an Old South course, running chronologically from...
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Review of Lacy K. Ford, Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old...
Lacy K. Ford’s Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009) is a magnificent survey of the Jacksonian South’s struggle to reconcile itself with slavery....
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Review of Gene Dattel’s Cotton and Race in the Making of America
Gene Dattel’s Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power (Ivan R. Dee, 2009) is a book for which I had been looking. While one can find plenty of studies of slavery and...
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Exhibit A: Why Studying History Is Important
Ed. note: In yesterday’s blog post, Michael Lynch has reaction to the online comments about my TSLA opinion piece. I usually ignore the anonymous online comments left on websites, but Monday’s...
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SHA 2011: New Perspectives on the Jacksonian South
My colleague, Natalie Inman, likes to call obstacles “adventures.” She would have enjoyed the “adventure” that was our panel this afternoon. The saga began when I tried to find the room our panel was...
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The Evolution of a Book, Part 1: Choosing a Topic
I’m currently finishing up a book manuscript for LSU Press tentatively entitled “Andrew Jackson, Southerner.” As I’m completing the writing phase and enter the editing process, I wanted to look back...
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The Evolution of a Book, Part 2: The Book Proposal
(Part 1 of this series is here.) The book proposal that I sent to LSU Press in 2006 was modeled on one that I used for Old Hickory’s Nephew [1]. I tweaked the focus of the Jackson proposal based on my...
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The Evolution of a Book, Part 3: The Book Outline
My students will probably think I’m lying, but I actually didn’t like or even follow outlines until I was in grad school. I thought they stifled my creativity and the organic development of my writing....
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BrANCH 2012: Peter Parish Memorial Lecture: Second Slavery and the First...
Ed Baptist gave the Peter Parish Memorial Lecture on Friday evening. For someone who flew in shortly before his talk, I thought he did a great job. Baptist opened with a summary of Solomon Northup’s...
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What Defines the South?
Update: After I scheduled the post yesterday, Karen Cox (@SassyProf) and several others had a lively exchange on Twitter about the topic, especially the place of sweet tea and cornbread. You can find...
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Introduction to Documentary Editing Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue, A Guide to Documentary Editing, 3rd. ed. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008)--Available for free online...
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