Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [311]-335.

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and the beginnings of southern history / Junius P. Rodriguez -- Broadus Mitchell : economic historian of the South / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- E. Merton Coulter and the political culture of southern historiography / Fred Arthur Bailey -- Frank L. Owsley's Plain folk of the old South after fifty years / Anthony Gene Carey -- W.E.B. du Bois : ambiguous journey to the black working class / Joe W. Trotter -- Rupert B. Vance : a sociologist's view of the South / John Shelton Reed and Daniel Joseph Singal -- Charles S. Sydnor's quest for a suitable past / Fred Arthur Bailey -- W.J. Cash : a native son confronts the past / Bruce Clayton -- Defining "the South's number one problem" : V.O. Key, Jr., and the study of twentieth-century southern politics / Kari Frederickson -- C. Vann Woodward, southern historian / John Herbert Roper -- John Hope Franklin : southern history in black and white / John White -- A. Elizabeth Taylor : searching for southern suffragists / Judith N. McArthur -- David M. Potter : Lincoln, abundance, and sectional crisis / David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler -- David Herbert Donald : southerner as historian of the nation / Jean H. Baker -- Kenneth Stampp's peculiar reputation / James Oakes -- Continuity and change : George Brown Tindall and the post-reconstruction South / Susan Youngblood Ashmore -- Anne Firor Scott : writing women into southern history / Anastatia Sims -- "Ethos without ethic" : Samuel S. Hill and southern religious history / Ted Ownby.