Reassessing Puritans and Southern Culture

Harry Stout, in Books and Culture, reviews Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese's book, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview. Stout compares this work on Southern culture to Perry Miller's on Puritan New England (The New England Mind). Both, he writes, offer reassessments of historical periods and cultures too often seen through the eyes of contemporary political correctness. I haven't read either work, but it's refreshing at least to know that it's still possible to register dissent to commonly-held views and that there are those out there who have to courage to do so. Check out the review.