HIST 40763 The Old South
How and why antebellum Southerners differed from Northerners (and many other folk). Lectures and discussions focus on the cultural heritage of the South, the social life of Southerners before the American Civil War, the survival of European and African traditions, immigration and settlement patterns, herding, slavery, plantation life, sectionalism, various southern ways and values, and some of the myths about the Old South. (US)