The essays are engaging for their personal tones as well as how the work of any historian is prompted and molded by his or her penchants, experiences, and mentors and associates. . . . The varied personal paths into the discipline evidence why history is so informative and germane. It is because identity and memories are bound into it that it is able to speak about human affairs.

—Midwest Book Review

The autobiographical essays in Shapers of Southern History prove that the history of the historians is as colorful and meaningful as the history of the region they study. The stories told are amazingly varied. Indeed, the only thing uniform in this collection is the high quality of the writing.

—Charles Reagan Wilson, Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi

—Wayne Flynt, author of Alabama in the Twentieth Century

Provide[s] an interesting read about the enthusiasms and challenges of being a historian in changing times . . . a page turner.

—American Historical Review

Novice scholars and historians regardless of field of specialization would do well to peruse this monograph.

—Arkansas Review

—Florida Historical Quarterly

—Macon Magazine

A delightful foray into the lives of fifteen people, a set of stories that together present an eclectic selection of roads taken . . . This book, with its varied authors and multiple perspectives, presents much more to its readers than I can hope to encompass in this review. . . . Its multilayered offerings make it as flexible for classroom use as it is readable for pleasure.

—Journal of Southern History