The Strange Career of Jim Crow. by C. Vann Woodward.

The Strange Career of Jim Crow. by C. Vann Woodward. 2nd revised ed. Oxford University press, 1966.

The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.by W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. Ed W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2005.

Where these Memories Grow. Ed W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

Where these Memories Grow: History, memory, and Southern Identity. Ed W. Fitzhugh Brundage. UNC Press, 2000 So very important to my thinking pre-dissertation. Kimball on African American memory, Rubin on Confederates' use of the American revolution, Clark in early celebrations of Emancipation Day in the postwar south, Bishir on monuments,

The World They Made Together. By Mechal Sobel.

The World They Made Together. By Mechal Sobel. Princeton University press, 1987. Subtitled "Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia." How the cultures of African slaves and working-class whites mingled and influenced each other. House construction, religion, etc. Good book.

Myth and Southern History Vol 2: the New South. Ed by Patrick Gerster and Nicholas Cords.

Myth and Southern History Vol 2: the New South. Ed by Patrick Gerster and Nicholas Cords. 2nd ed1989. University of Illinois Press, 1989. More Classic essays: Tindall, John Hope Franklin, Woodward.

Myth and Southern History Vol 1: the Old South. Ed by Patrick gerster and Nicholas Cords.

Myth and Southern History Vol 1: the Old South. Ed by Patrick Gerster and Nicholas Cords. 2nd ed University of Illinois Press, 1989. Classic essays. Tindall, Woodward, Cash, Taylor, Wilson, on the Old South.

American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond. by Gregg D. Kimball

American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond. by Gregg D. Kimball University of Georgia Press, 2000. Kimball is a historian at the Library of VA-- or he was when this was written, anyway. (I interviewed him for my dissertation; so helpful.) The workers, church-goers, local families, dealing with a new sense of identity. This is thorough. I am even more attached to his chapter in the Brundage book Where These Memories Grow.