Includes bibliographical references and index.

Down by the waterside: family, identity, and maritime history / Raymond Arsenault -- How Charles Joyner changed my life / Jack Bass -- Stranger redux / Orville Vernon Burton -- Becoming a southern historian / Dan Carter -- About the south / Richard Carwardine -- It wasn't in the plan / Walter B. Edgar -- The Maryland design: toward the cultural history of a border state / David Hackett Fischer -- Balance, Schlesinger, and Chaz Joyner / William W. Freehling -- Southern history as family history / Rod Gragg -- Fiction, history, murder, and the book of truth / Josephine Humphreys -- Feeling awful southern...or not? / John C. Inscoe -- Writing the south in fact / Hank Klibanoff -- Curing my historical schizophrenia / Robert Korstad -- Down home / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Researching and writing southern history from close encounters / Valinda Littlefield -- Memories / Hayes Mizell -- When does a microscope become a telescope or a telescope a microscope? / David Moltke-Hansen -- Shared traditions / Maggi M. Morehouse -- A New England yankee discovers southern history / John J. Navin -- Recollections / James Peacock -- A personal odyssey: discovering local history / Eldred E. Prince, Jr -- The philosophy shop, part one / Theodore Rosengarten -- The philosophy shop, part two / Dale Rosengarten -- A New Zealander becomes a southern historian / John A. Salmond -- Chaz Joyner at coastal Carolina: bargain or burden? / Roy Talbert -- The soul sings for justice: why I write about the south / Natasha Trethewey -- An accidental scholar / Anne M. Wyatt-Brown -- Vann Woodward and me / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Charles Joyner: a photographic homage / William Ferris.

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