First American: Captain John Smith's The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
An American Pepys: William Byrd's History of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina
American statesman: Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
Terrestrial paradise: William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
History versus legend: Mason Locke Weems's The life of Washington the great
Folk hero: A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state of Tennessee
Yarns of frontier life: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia scenes
Slave Plantation: Frances Anne Kemble's Journal of a resident on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
From slavery to freedom: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave written by himself
Political philosopher: John Caldwell Calhoun's A disquisition on government
Hated helper: Hinton Rowan Helper's The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it
Southern traveler: Frederick Law Olmsted's The cotton kingdom
Southern panorama: Edward King's The great South
Romantic New Orleans: George W. Cable's Old Creole days
Black folktales: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings
Father of waters: Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi
Moonlight and magnolia: Thomas Nelson Page's In old Virginia
The great compromiser: Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from slavery
Black Protestant: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's The souls of black folk
Hymn of hate: Thomas Dixon's The clansman: an historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Antebellum South: Ulrich Bonnell Phillip's Life and labor in the old South
Nostalgia for never-never land: Twelve Southerners' I'll take my stand
Regional inventory: Howard W. Odum's Southern regions of the United States
Nation within a nation: W.J. Cash's The mind of the South
Reconstruction to the new freedom: C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South, 1877-1913.
