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  • The legendary historian
  • Another Mark Twain if he applied himself: the superintendent's son spreads his wings
  • A Southern historian I must be
  • or somehow become: a budding biographer makes hard choices
  • History, I find, is a collection of facts: pursuing the "cursed degree" in Chapel Hill
  • A better read than Huxley's new novel: telling the Tom Watson story
  • A chance to have my say about the period: the origins of "Origins"
  • Juleps for the few and pellagra for the crew: reckoning with the redeemer
  • New South legacy
  • Cordially invited to be absent: integrating the Southern Historical Association
  • A fundamental attack upon the prevailing view: launching "The strange career of Jim Crow"
  • Wrong in all its major parts: "Strange career" returns to Earth
  • A basis for criticizing the American legend: Southern history as both asset and burden
  • Tortured for months: the agony of moving to Yale
  • Therapist of the public mind: the strange career of C. Vann Woodward
  • I mean to do all I can: the mentor flexes his muscles
  • An ever more conservative old liberal: moving to the right or standing fast?
  • I do not see how I could have been misunderstood: sorting out the Aptheker debacle
  • The masterpiece that became a hoax (and won a Pulitzer): rewriting Mary Chesnut's diary
  • Still more that I can do: the satisfactions of staying the course
  • America's historian.