General Works

Francis Butler Simkins

An essential one-volume history of the Southern people.

James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald Kennedy

The most popular history of the South in the modern era.

John Shelton Reed

A scholarly explanation of the cultural distinctiveness of the American South.

M.E. Bradford

Series of essays by Southern scholar on the founding and origins of Southern conservatism.

Clyde N. Wilson, ed.

Ten essays in honor of Bradford and his contribution to Southern intellectual history.

Richard M. Weaver

A rich collection of material from one of the most important Southern scholars of the twentieth century.

Richard M. Weaver

Equally as important as the previous work, this was Weaver’s first full defense of the South as the intellectual center of American conservative thought.

Basil L. Gildersleeve

The author was the greatest American classical scholar and a Confederate soldier who explained things to fair-minded Northerners after Reconstruction.