The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War . By John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 368. $39.95.
本书通过研究北卡罗来纳州西部山区社区，挑战了当地关于该地区是联邦派据点的传说，揭示了奴隶制在内战中的真实角色，适合对美国内战史和地方传说感兴趣的读者。
This interesting study fits into the growing literature of community studies that seek to expand our knowledge of the Civil War beyond the battlefield and the lives of generals. It looks at that conflict in an understudied region, Western North Carolina, which local myth holds was a Unionist stronghold. As in most local lore, there is a grain of truth but more than an ounce of outright inaccuracy. John Inscoe has explored the role of slavery in Western North Carolina (WNC) in a very fine previous book, Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989). He and his coauthor continue the debunking of local legend here in this finely nuanced study of the communities of the mountain regions of North Carolina.