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Robin Spencer Lattimore

Robin Spencer Lattimore, of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, is an award-winning historian and author of more than 30 books and scholarly monographs that celebrate the history, traditions, and people of the American South. He is the co-author of Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018, and author of Southern Plantations: The South’s Grandest Homes, published by Shire Books (now a part of Bloomsbury Publishing) of Oxford, England, in 2012. In addition to his printed works, Lattimore served as the chief historian and commentator for the Emmy-nominated, PBS documentary “Gold Fever and the Bechtler Mint,” produced by UNC-TV and released nationally in 2013. Lattimore was named the North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2009, by the North Carolina Society of Historians. He was bestowed with the legendary Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina’s highest civilian honor, in 2013. He is a high school teacher at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, in Rutherford County, NC.

On Ballylee: The Enduring Legacy of Our Fathers’ Fields Review Posts

On Ballylee: The Enduring Legacy of Our Fathers’ Fields

A retrospective review of Our Fathers’ Fields: A Southern Story (University of South Carolina Press, 1998) by James Everett Kibler, Jr. On June 7, 1998, I opened a copy of The State newspaper from Columbia, South Carolina, and read a review of a book that I immediately knew I had to own. The article, “Family Ties: Author Looks at Hardy…
Robin Spencer Lattimore
July 16, 2019
A Visit to Clay Bank County Review Posts

A Visit to Clay Bank County

A review of four novels by Dr. James Everett Kibler, Jr: Walking Toward Home (Pelican Publishing, 2004), Memory’s Keep (Pelican Publishing, 2006), The Education of Chauncey Doolittle (Pelican Publishing, 2008), and Tiller (Shotwell Publishing, 2016). At the heart of every good work of fiction are characters that are believable and a real or imagined setting that allows readers to inhabit,…
Robin Spencer Lattimore
November 13, 2018