Reinterpreting Southern Histories: Essays in Historiography (Jules and Frances Landry Award)

I bought this book because I saw the authors interviewed on CSPAN. I am interested in history in general but am not a historian. The essays in this book are encyclopedic with references to important works and authors and their contributions. The essays provide a very detailed history of the evolution of the study of southern history research itself with arguments and counter-arguments and analysis. All of this is fascinating but also tedious and a bit disappointing because the impression is that no one really knows or agrees on the history of the South. Most of my "knowledge" of southern history is now questionable. I feel like I have to start over!Programs like Ken Burn's "Civil War" paint a shallow and stereotyped version of history when compared to this book. I guess Ken Burns had to in order to attract and hold the attention of the PBS "audience." No wonder Americans are so confused.I recommend this book to any serous student of American history.

1. Machine generated contents note: Native Homelands, Imperial Rivalries, And Contested Legacies Of The Early South /​ Daniel H. Usner2. Oriented Towards The Ocean The Colonial South /​ Justin Roberts3. The South In The Revolutionary Era And Early Republic /​ Peter S. Onuf4. Nineteenth-Century Enslavement Of Africans And African Americans In The United States /​ Edward E. BaptistGender And Sexuality In The Old South /​ Emily West5. On The Banks Of The James Or The Congaree Antebellum Political Economy /​ John D. Majewski6. From Reconciliation To Reckoning Historiography of the South and the Civil War /​ Stephen Berry7. Against Synthesis Diverse Approaches to the History of Reconstruction /​ Elaine S. Frantz8. The Historiography Of The Black South From Reconstruction to Jim Crow /​ Claudrena N. Harold9. New stories for a "new south" Race-Making, Ethnic Diversity, Urbanization, and Gendered Politics /​ Ted Ownby10. "We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest" The Civil Rights Movement /​ Cherisse Jones-Branch11. Gender And Sexuality In The Twentieth-Century South /​ Megan Taylor Shockley12. From the Great Depression To The "End Of Southern History"? /​ Jason Morgan Ward13. The South In Global And Transnational Contexts /​ Marko Maunula14. The Native South /​ Theda Perdue15. Southern Religious History /​ Paul Harvey16. Race, Power, And The Law Southern Legal and Constitutional History /​ Charles L. Zelden17. Southern Environmental History /​ William Thomas Okie18. The Transformation Of Southern Intellectual History /​ David Moltke-Hansen.