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My hope is that this will some day become a shrine to Dixie. Let me say right now that there will never be any racist component to this page--if you think that something I put here is objectionable, let me know and I will consider changing it. This is not to say that there will be no Confederate symbolism on this page. The ideals of the Confederacy are laudable, and all Southerners should remember and revere these ideals--Southern honor, Victorianism, a commitment to individualism, etc. My pride in my Southern heritage does not make me an apologist for slavery.
Here are some old college papers I wrote. The most important one is about the Ku Klux Klan in western North Carolina in 1870-1871. It is my argument, in this particular episode, that politics, personal animosities, and moonshining were the factors leading up to the Klan activity--although there was a racial element, it was no more than a secondary issue. Maybe someday I will get my footnotes converted over to endnotes, so that these can be included with the paper. If you want to make any comments about these things, just e-mail me.
The Klan in Western North Carolina, 1870-71
Some Old South Historiography
North Carolina Politics in the Early 1900s
I have said what I want this page to be. It is not that now. Until I can motivate myself to put some better things together, here are some short book reviews I wrote back in my college days. These are just little reviews I wrote, and maybe a line in one of them may be of use to someone. There are other, better things coming--for one, my monograph on the life and works of Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
Wilbur J. Cash, The Mind of the South
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Allen W. Trelease, White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
Joel Williamson, New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career or Jim Crow
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
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