The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

“The collaborative effort of long-time super-star scholars…and a rainbow of rising new lights, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. . . is living up to its promise of combining old verities with an array of recent scholarly perceptions that make covering everything in only 24 volumes seem to be a short-sighted goal. . . . Wresting a representative snapshot of southern history from the voluminous scrapbooks and long, long library shelves on that subject is a daunting assignment, and Wilson deserves praise for taking the risk of producing a good one.” — Index-Journal (Greenwood, SC)

“The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture provide[s] wonderful insight into the history and culture of the American South. By publishing the encyclopedia in multiple volumes, the editors have helped make this rich resource more readily available to the reading public. Future volumes… will be highly anticipated.” — North Carolina Historical Review

“All significant libraries, not only in the South, but throughout the nation should include the new individual volumes in their collections.” — American Reference Books Annual

“This set represents a solid improvement on a celebrated work. The individual volumes will be essential for scholars of various Southern studies topics.” — Library Journal

“With entries on topics ranging from cemeteries to debutante balls to Victorianism, this updated volume offers a descriptive take on the Southern way of life and its stereotypes and traditions.” — Our State

“Does a fine job of outlining the high points of the South’s cultural history. . . . It remains the sort of encyclopedia that one can refer to for serious work or just thumb through for a lazy hour, discovering something new with a turn of the pages.” — Western Folklore