Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-249) and index.
Contents
Intemperate men, spiteful women, and Jefferson Davis: Northern views of the defeated South -- Reconstruction of the heart: reunion and sentimentality during Southern Reconstruction -- Sick Yankees in paradise: Northern tourism in the Reconstructed South -- The culture of conciliation: a moral alternative in the Gilded Age -- Minstrels and mountaineers: the whitewashed road to reunion -- New patriotism and new men in the new South.