A Mythic Land Apart -- A Mythic Land Apart Reassessing Southerners and Their History -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Immigrant Influence in the Colonial South: The Case of Philip Mazzei -- 2 "Moral Suasion Has Had Its Day": From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum Kentucky -- 3 Medical Education in the South: The Case of Louisville, 1837- 1910 -- 4 Compromiser or Conspirator? Henry Clay and the Graves- Cilley Duel -- 5 The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and Southern Secession -- 6 Lessons in Generalship: Robert E. Lee's Military Legacy for the Twenty- First Century -- 7 "No negro is upon the program": Blacks and the Montgomery Race Conference of 1900 -- 8 The Gavel and the Sword: Experiences Shaping the Life of John Sherman Cooper -- 9 Hollywood and the Mythic Land Apart, 1988- 1991 -- Selected Bibliography of Charles Pierce Roland -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.