Description:
The Historian behind the History is a collection of ten fascinating interviews with southern historians who offer insights into their individual career paths and into the work of professional historians.
Review Quotes: "What an inspired idea to have graduate students probe gifted historians about the life choices that guided them toward scholarly careers. There's a freshness to the interviews, a humanizing of historiography, that probably wouldn't have come through had a professional peer been the person doing the probing. An added bonus is George Rable's superb introduction."
--Lawrence N. Powell, author of The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans and Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana