| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas. Ed. by Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xiv, 381 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-8071-3099-0.)
Emory M. Thomas began writing about the Confederate States of America three and a half decades ago, when he was the first white southerner of the post–Civil Rights era to explore that topic with any real seriousness. Thomas subsequently became one of the most popular Confederate historians ever. Most of his books are still in print today. The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865 (1979) has had an especially long shelf life. Despite its age, it remains the best single-volume scholarly overview of the Southern rebellion.	1
Given Thomas's accomplishments, it is fitting that twenty-odd colleagues, students, and associates would honor him with Inside the Confederate Nation. Like many such festschrifts, this one contains tributes to a valued mentor and friend, an account of Thomas's development as a historian at the University of Georgia, and a bibliography of his publications. The tightly focused essays convey the questions and concerns that inform contemporary historical writing about the Confederacy. In this respect, the editors look forward as well as backward, as they inadvertently preview what sort of synthesis might some day replace The Confederate Nation.	. . .

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