In the informal, engaging essays brought together in One South, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South’s strong regional identity and on the persistence, well into the last decades if…

A witty and sometimes outrageous collection of essays presenting one Southerner’s viewpoint about what makes the South the South. As the Washington Post said, Reed knows his region intimately, probably…

This first book in the series contains 27 articles, representing the work of some 30 scholars, and including the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and geography.

Invites modern readers to experience mid-century small-town life from the vantage of the white upper and middle classes, and in particular from the viewpoint of Old Kent families.