Do you share Dr. Cox’s opinion that we may be approaching a point of common ground within the South over our history, or, more to the point, abandoning the “Lost Cause” falsehoods and approaching greater racial justice in the region?

In answering this question, you are required to use a minimum of FOUR of the following sources; you may use more, but please stick to those sources that we have used in this class or that I list here (unless you have my explicit permission to do otherwise). Please note that at least TWO of your sources must be written (that is, you may not have three or more video sources out of four). The sources are:

• Karen Cox, No Common Ground, especially chapter 6 and epilogue
• Mitch Landrieu, YouTube speech from 2017 (URL posted on Blackboard with your final exam)
• Danielle McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street, especially chapters 1-3
• Documentary films (I will post a selection with the final exam on Blackboard)
• Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Lost the Civil War
• Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness, chapter 5: “Deadly Amusements”
• Any article posted in the “Course Readings” file on Blackboard
• Angie Maxwell, The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness, especially introduction and chapters 1-2
• William Freehling, The South vs. The South, especially chapters 5 and 8
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, ed., The 1619 Project, any part
• Any New York Times news (not opinion) article covering any event in southern history since 1920