Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History

Contents

Contents Preface to the Updated Edition xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 The Past Is 15 New Traditions 20 The Orthodox Church 28 Counterculture 37 2 God-Haunted 43 Blessed Defeat 50 Rituals of Faith 54 Making Good Christians 57 Black Branches 63 Dissenters 64 Civil Religion and Civil Rights 69 3 Culture Protestants 76 4 Pretty Women 89 The Woman’s War 93 Support and Sacrifice 96 Masks 103 Beneath the Pedestal 108 Keepers of the Past with an Eye to the Future 111 Suffering Suffrage 116 5 Lady Insurrectionists 137 The Opening 138 Clubbing 140 Women’s Work 145 False Chivalry 150 Lifting As We Climb 152 6 A Woman’s Movement 162 Off the Pedestal 163 Daughter of the Confederacy 165 Freedom’s Midwives 170 Take It Like a Man 177 Gender Agenda 181 7 Colors 187 Fluid Dynamics 191 Redeemed, Again 195 Exile 201 Reading, Writing, and Race 208 Alabaster Cities 214 Mirror Images 216 8 Sharings 239 Revelation 244 The Offering 249 Signs 252 9 New Battlegrounds, Old Strategies 256 Voting Rights and Wrongs 257 Schools: Burdens of Race and History 266 Natural and Unnatural 269 Work: Ebb and Flow 273 10 Measures 281 Southerners 283 Silences 289 11 Histories 298 Not Forgotten 301 Inclusion 305 12 The Real War 320 Notes 339 Index 369 ...