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Natalie J. Ring is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930 and co-editor of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Sarah E. Gardner is Distinguished University Professor in History at Mercer University. She is the author of Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 and Reviewing the South: The Literary Marketplace and the Southern Renaissance. Edward L. Ayers is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Richmond. He is the author of many award-winning books, including The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (OUP, 1992, 2007) and The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.
"""[J]ust as The Canterbury Tales, which is a somewhat fragmentary execution of what Chaucer actually intended, give great pleasure, and great provocation, so can these intriguing snippets of the musings of a truly great historian's mind."" -- Stephen B. Presser, The Russell Kirk Center ""Ring and Gardner go behind the legend of C. Vann Woodward to bring the reader an extraordinary account of the perils of writing history. After his defining impact on his field, Woodward quietly struggled to bring another masterwork into print. With sympathy and expert archival sleuthing, the authors portray the historian's conundrum in a period of rapid historical change. The result is an acute and surprisingly personal look at Woodward's own burden as he wrote southern history."" -- Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 ""With great insight and authority, Natalie Ring and Sarah Gardner have not only brought C. Vann Woodward's previously unpublished and important lectures to light. They have also made a significant contribution to our understanding of Woodward's own struggles, failures, and intellectual development. This is a major work for students of southern and United States history."" -- Steven Hahn, Author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration ""Ring and Gardner have accomplished something truly extraordinary. They have given readers a fascinating and inspiring look into the intellectual processes of one of American History's great practitioners."" -- Carole Emberton, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War"
