Southern histories
Subtitle: public, personal, and sacred
By: David Goldfield.
Series: Georgia Southern University. Jack N. & Addie D. Averitt lecture series ;; no. 11; Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ;; no. 11.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Southern States -- Social conditions.; Regionalism -- Southern States.; Group identity -- Southern States.; Political culture -- Southern States.; Religion and politics -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Historiography.; Southern States -- Religion.
Description: "In this look at some of the historical forces actively at work in today's South, David Goldfield draws pointed, provocative links between the "Lost Cause" mythology that emerged from the chaos of Confederate defeat, the region's reputation for intolerance, and southern evangelical Protestantism."

"Goldfield looks at an array of issues from the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemmings controversy to debates over the Confederate flag to the proliferation of African American history museums and monuments in the region. Finally, he recalls his work as a consultant on U.S. Supreme Court cases involving a majority black voting district in North Carolina, as a coauthor of an environmental and economic impact study of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and as a mitigating witness in the sentencing phases of six racially polarizing death penalty cases. His contributions, Goldfield hopes, made history more "real" to people in vocations outside of academia."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-120) and index.
Table of contents: title: Whose southern history is it anyway? : reconciling a fractured past; title: Faith of our fathers : Southern religion in a global age; title: The uses of southern history : a personal memoir.