The Southern Renaissance

1. From Progressivism to "Modernism"
2. The Rise of Social Science--The Chapel Hill Regionalists
1. Howard Odum and the UNC Institute for Research in Social Science
   1. Odum's Associates--Rupert Vance, etc.
3. The "Benighted South" School
   1. Exposés
      1. William H. Skaggs, The Southern Oligarchy (1924)
      2. Frank Tanenbaum, Darker Phases of the South (1924)
   2. Debunkers--H. L. Mencken and His Disciples
      1. Gerald W. Johnson
      2. W. J. Cash--The Mind of the South
4. Vanderbilt--The Fugitives and the Agrarians
   1. Literary Revolt--The Fugitives
   2. Agrarianism--I'll Take My Stand
5. Other Aspects
   1. The Novel--Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, the "Southern Gothics"
   2. History--C. Vann Woodward