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Robert Greene II on Lacy Ford’s *Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century* | Society for US Intellectual History

Rarely does a book utilize debates about historiography and scholars reckoning with the American past to speak to the present moment as effectively as does Lacy Ford’s Understanding the American South. Ford, a preeminent scholar on the antebellum American South, uses this collection of essays to get at a difficult—but timely—question: how do the American