Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney

Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney is a collection of original essays written by some of the nation's most distinguished historians. Sheldon Hackney has served as provost of Princeton University, president of Tulane University and the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In a variety of roles-teacher, mentor, colleague, administrator, writer, and friend-Hackney has been a source of wisdom, empowerment, and wise counsel during more than four decades of historical and educational achievement. His life, both inside and outside the academy, has focused on issues closely related to civil rights, social justice, and the vagaries of race, class, regional culture, and national identity.
Each of the contributors has a personal as well as a professional connection to Hackney, and each of the essays in this volume touches upon one or more of the important themes that have animated Hackney's scholarly and professional life. The specific topics addressed in the essays include:

Voting Rights in the South Since 1965
Film and the "Disney Version" of Southern History
The NAACP and the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Naval Warfare during the Civil War
Nineteenth-century Southern and Northern Revivalism: A Comparative View
Race, Inequality, and Educational Funding in the South
Southern Music
Unionism and the Election of 1863 in Alabama
African American Political Struggles in the Post-Reconstruction South
Confederate Political Culture