The burden of southern history /
Woodward, C. Vann(Comer Vann),1908-1999.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,
2008.
Includes index.
The search for southern identity -- The historical dimension -- John Brown's private war -- Equality : the deferred commitment -- The political legacy of the first Reconstruction -- A southern critique for the Guilded Age -- The populist heritage and the intellectual -- What happened to the civil rights movement -- The irony of southern history -- A second look at the theme of irony -- Look away, look away -- The burden for William Faulkner -- The burden for Robert Penn Warren.