Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred
- ISBN-10
- 0820325619
- ISBN-13
- 9780820325613
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 123
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Author
- David R. Goldfield
Description
"Goldfield looks at an array of issues from the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemmings controversy to debates over the Confederate flag to the proliferation of African American history museums and monuments in the region. Finally, he recalls his work as a consultant on U.S. Supreme Court cases involving a majority black voting district in North Carolina, as a coauthor of an environmental and economic impact study of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and as a mitigating witness in the sentencing phases of six racially polarizing death penalty cases. His contributions, Goldfield hopes, made history more "real" to people in vocations outside of academia."--BOOK JACKET.
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