0. How I got into this

1. The Mystery of the Great Seal

2. Southerner in Denial

3. “John Brown’s Body”

4. The Seductions and Confusions of Genealogical Research

5. The Cult of the Lost Cause and the Invention of General Pickett

6. Look Away

7. The Unrightable Wrong

8. Bless Your Heart, I do think you are lucky no one has shot you

9. The Confederate in my Silverware Drawer

10. L.P. Walker:  The Historic Markers, the Play, the Cemetery Walk

11. My Great Grandfather, Stephen Douglas and the Seductions of Non-intervention

12. How to Change History

13. The Book and the Spoon

14. “Mild Domestic Slavery”

15. The Burden of the Pile

16. The Yankees are Coming! Hide the Silver!

17. Patton’s Pets & Other Epithets

18. Where am I From Again?

19. A Murderer in the Family

20. Did He Get Away?

21. A White Man Friendly to the Freedom of All Men