Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: A Southern Historian and His Critics

by John David Smith, John C. Inscoe

No other historian of the American South has attracted so much attention as Georgia native Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934). Acknowledged by even his severest critics as a pathbreaking scholar, Phillips remains one of the region's most important and controversial chroniclers. This volume, which first appeared in 1990, collects twenty-three essays and excerpts from larger works published between 1913 and 1986 that evaluate his life and career from a number of perspectives.

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First published April 20, 1990

About the author

JOHN DAVID SMITH is Graduate Alumni Distinguished Professor of History and Director of M.A. Program in Public History at North Carolina State University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and in 1998-99 he served as the Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Amerika Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany