Old South

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Was the old South solidly for slavery and secession? An eminent historian disputes a long-cherished view of that region’s history</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THE BLACK SLAVE DRIVER</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> AN INTERVIEW WITH C. VANN WOODWARD</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">How the mistress of the plantation became a slave</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Most surveys of American painting begin in New England in the eighteenth century, move westward to the Rockies in the nineteenth, and return to New York in the twentieth. Now we’ll have to redraw the map</span> . </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> All this Florida boy wanted to do was rejoin his regiment. Instead they drafted him into the Confederate secret service.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In the quiet luxury of the historic district, a unique form of house plan—which goes back two hundred years—is a beguiling surprise for a visitor</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Sociologists continue to be vexed by the pathology of urban violence: Why is it so random, so fierce, so easily triggered? One answer may be found in this nation's Southern past.</span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body"><span class="pullquote even">A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.</span></span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Deep South states are taking the lead in promoting landmarks of a 300-year heritage of oppression and triumph, and they’re drawing visitors from around the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The struggles and torments of a forgotten class in antebellum America: black slaveowners</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">BORN IN SLAVERY AND RAISED IN ITS PAINFUL AFTERMATH TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AMERICAN ICONS, SHE HAS BEEN MADE TO ENCOMPASS LOVE AND GUILT AND RIDICULE AND WORSHIP, AND STILL SHE LIVES ON.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THE VISITORS WHO COME HERE FOR THE OLYMPICS this summer won’t find Tara. What they will find is a city facing an unusual and sometimes painful past with clarity of vision and generosity of spirit.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> WILLIE MORRIS</lead_in> revisits a book that nourished him as a boy and discovers that the landscapes which the young Samuel Clemens navigated are in fact the topography of Morris’ own life.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The old Confederacy got only as far north as Pennsylvania, but its great-grandchildren have captured America’s culture. Joshua Zeitz looks at sports, entertainment, and religion to show how.</span></p>

<p>Hernando de Soto marched across what is now eleven U.S. states, leaving a trail of destruction and disease.</p>

<p>Two hundred years ago, the conflict in which the U.S. seized the Deep South from its Native inhabitants was a turning point in American history, but it is largely forgotten today.</p>