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Article: Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History
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- South Carolina Historical Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. By David Goldfield. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 354; $34.95, cloth.)
David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has written extensively in the very complex field of race relations in the American South. His latest work, Still Fighting the Civil War, is an important addition to the field. Based almost exclusively on secondary sources, Goldfield shows the slow, almost evolutionary changes in race and gender relations in the South since the end of the nineteenth century. In many respects, the study fits into the genre of ...