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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Long time leaving Long time leaving Roy Blount Jr. "I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I'm pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents' people are deep Southern from many genera… OL14852825W
On matters southern On matters southern Marion Montgomery "This work is divided into five sections--"The Author at Work and Home," "On Place and Region," "On Fugitives, Agrarians, and New Critics," "On Individual Authors" and "On Books and Schooling." In th… OL1828458W
The Promise of the New South The Promise of the New South Edward L. Ayers At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle … OL2711539W
Cracker culture Cracker culture Grady McWhiney Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. OL3119535W
Dixie Dixie Curtis Wilkie "Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial an… OL6210138W