Historian Behind the History

"Ten interviews with Southern historians--William Freehling, Laura Edwards, James McPherson, Gary W. Gallagher, Richard J. M. Blackett, J. Mills Thornton, Dan T. Carter, Theodore Rosengarten, Glenda Gilmore, and Pete Daniel--and an introduction by George C. Rable offer insights into their profession and the journeys they took"-- "The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent Southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama's history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable Southern historians and mentors illuminate the state of historiography, their experiences in the profession, and their thoughts about graduate education and southern history. The historians and their main topics include: Richard J. M. Blackett on antebellum and African American history; Dan T. Carter on Reconstruction, Civil Rights, and George Wallace; Pete Daniel on the New Deal and the Cold War South; Laura F. Edwards on the Early Republic, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and women's history; William W. Freehling on the antebellum South; Gary W. Gallagher on the Civil W