… South and southern history that separate the region from the rest of the United States. I argue
that southern … description of southern his tory. In fact, many of the issues associated with the …

… Because southern distinctiveness has so often been … southern identity has actually become
not only a sustaining component of southern identity itself, but as we shall see, of American …

… perspective of the Civil War and Reconstruction from which contemporary southern so— …
in southern history as a heroic de— fense of Old South civilization and American constitutional …

… : " We are nearing the American shore." A thousand times has … is American without question;
the southern is American with … large tend to produce a Southern scheme of life and thought. …

… From what we call tell from the SFP, most self-defined southerners do not see their southern
identity displacing a broader American identity. When asked in the Spring 1994 and Fall …

… between America's attitude toward Southern history and its assertion that Japan and Germany
bear historical … and gives Americans an opportunity to judge an internal spatial Other (the …

… America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South…
Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own …

… tage by the southern historian both in understanding American history and in interpreting
it to non-Americans. For from a broader point of view it is not the South but America that is …

… As gradually Americans as a whole have come to question … has called "the irony of American
history," I think they have … despair of twentieth-century southern writing an effective catharsis …

… The most important institution in the South's system of bound labor was debt peonage.
Pete Daniel's work on this central element in postwar Southern history is indispensable.30 …