"In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years …
"This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people. Goldfield treats the Lost Cause with unblinking directness ... its main strength: the stress on the weight of memory …
Chronicles the history of the South from the Civil War to the present, exploring the roots of southern memory and explaining how this memory has shaped the modern South both for good and ill.