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Race, Racism, and Southern Myths

In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.”

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

American historians have long traced the genesis of the Black Power movement to 1966. I would argue, however, that one

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead