The Militant South, 1800-1861
"A pioneer work... [Franklin's] sources are original, his work is thorough and his book makes a fresh and significant contribution to the understanding of the mind of the South." -- C. Vann Woodward, New York Times Book Review  "John Hope Franklin has assembled an unrivaled body of data on these diverse manifestations of the fighting spirit in the South, and has presented it in a book which enables the reader better to understand a whole range of behavior." -- Yale Review  "An important addition to the historical literature of the Old South." -- J. C. Furnas