Incident at an Antique Store

[LincolnToddFan]

For Jim Crow beginning in the North, see C. Vann Woodward, The Strange career of Jim Crow (orig 1955, various eds and pubs since), pp. 17-21.

Bill,

Thanks for the suggestion. I am normally reading about 3-4 books at a time, and I will get Mr. Woodward's book from the library next week.

Linda, I also love that Faulkner quote and I agree with it completely!

Roger,

Of course you are right as usual. There is no need to close a thread because things become a little heated. I have mentioned before the dysfunction of my upbringing and how as a result any hint of quarreling can throw me into a kind of panic.

The Civil War is and will always be a potent subject. AL is and will always be a fascinating figure. The astonishing cottage industry of books about him 150 years later attests to that.

I am puzzled by remarks about "fawning" over him here when I see just as many posters excoriating him. I have browsed at several other Civil War sites that are devoted to the Southern view, and I can assure you that both sides are not nearly so well represented as they are here.

Thanks again.