Where these memories grow : history, memory, and southern identity / edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

Part one: Varieties of memory in the Old South -- Memory and the making of a southern citizenry: Georgia artisans in the early republic / Michele Gillespie -- African, American, and Virginian: the shaping of black memory in antebellum Virginia, 1790-1860 / Gregg D. Kimball -- Part two: Finding meaning in history during the Confederacy and Reconstruction -- Seventy-six and Sixty-one: Confederates remember the American Revolution -- Celebrating freedom: Emancipation Day celebrations and African American memory in the early Reconstruction South / Kathleen Clark.

Part three: The past in the New South -- Landmarks of power: building a southern past in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina, 1885-1915 / Catherine W. Bishir -- Redeeming Southern memory: the Negro race history, 1874-1915 / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- The talk of the country: revisiting accusation, murder, and Mississippi, 1895 / John Howard -- Part four: Memory and place in the modern South -- Rich and tender remembering: elite white women and an aesthetic sense of place in Charleston, 1920s and 1930s / Stephanie E. Yuhl -- To keep the spirit of mountain culture alive: tourism and historical memory in the Southern highlands / C. Brenden Martin -- Le reveil de la Louisiane: memory and Acadian identity, 1920-1960 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

We run the Alamo, and you don't: Alamo battles of ethnicity and gender / Holly Beachley Brear -- Under the rope: lynching and memory in Laurens County, South Carolina / Bruce E. Baker -- Epilogue: Southerners don't lie; they just remember big / David W. Blight.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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