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6-4-15

Review of Timothy J. Williams's "Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South"

by Luther Spoehr

The Southern pre-Civil War college wasn't so dreary after all.

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Review of Timothy J. Williams's "Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South"

by Luther Spoehr