Charles Reagan Wilson is professor emeritus of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and general editor of the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
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How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life-a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how div... SEE MORE