The Essential Sewanee Library (listed in a blended approximate of categorical and chronological order):

The University of the South Papers, Series A, No. 1,
REPRINTS OF THE DOCUMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, PRIOR TO 1860, edited by Telfair Hodgson, D.D., Vice-Chancellor

HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, at Sewanee, Tennessee, from its founding by the Southern Bishops, Clergy and Laity of the Episcopal Church in 1857 to the year 1905, George R. Fairbanks, M.A., Un. Coll., Trin. Co., 1905

1907 SEMI-CENTENNIAL CAP AND GOWN, and 1957 - 1958 THE CENTENNIAL EDITION CAP AND GOWN, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH

SEWANEE, Baker, Gailor, Lovell, Torian, 1932, reprinted as PURPLE SEWANEE, 1961

MEN WHO MADE SEWANEE, Published for the 75th Anniversary, Moultrie Guerry, Student, Chaplain, Trustee, Republished for the 125th Anniversary with Additional Chapters, Arthur Ben and Elizabeth N. Chitty, Historiographers, 1981

RECONSTRUCTION AT SEWANEE 1857 - 1872, Arthur Ben Chitty, 1954 and 1993

SEWANEE SAMPLER, Arthur Ben Chitty and Elizabeth N. Chitty, 1978 reprint of ABC

UNDER THE SUN AT SEWANEE, James Waring McCrady 1967, and Douglas Cameron 1978

"Sewanee: Then and Now," Arthur Ben Chitty, article reprint from Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXXVIII, Winter 1979, No. 4

"Enduring Memorial, A Brief History of The University of The South, Sewanee, Tennessee," pamphlet by Arthur Ben Chitty, February 1989

"Sewanee in Ruins," poem by Richard Tillinghast, 2nd edition, 1983, and "Sewanee in Ruins, Part II -V"

SEWANEE The University of  the South, photography by William Strode, 1984

SEWANEE Seasons on the Domain, photographed by Tommy Thompson, 1993 and 1997 reprint of cover and page 59

THE OTHER SIDE OF SEWANEE, Patricia Short Makris, 1997

SEWANEE IN STONE, Architecture and History, David Bowman, 2003

BIOGRAPHY OF A BUSINESS: Tennessee Coal & Iron Division, United States Steel Corporation, A.W. Wiebell, 1960

BEERSHEBA SPRINGS, A History, Beersheba Springs Historical Society, editor Margaret Brown Coppinger, et al, Arthur Ben Chitty contributing, 1983

De Bow's Review, De Bow's Commercial Review of the South & West, and De Bow's New Orleans

" 'Let Us Manufacture Men': Educating Elite Boys in the Early National South," Lorri Glover, SOUTHERN MANHOOD, Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, Edited by Craig Thompson and Lorri Glover, 2004

THE COTTON KINGDOM, A Chronicle of the Old South, William E. Dodd, 1920

THE MIND OF THE OLD SOUTH
, Clement Eaton, 1964 and 1967

LEONIDAS POLK, Bishop and General, William M. Polk, M.D., LL.D., 1893 and 1915, 1893 reprinted 2001

GENERAL LEONIDAS POLK, C.S.A, The Fighting Bishop, Joseph H. Parks, 1962 and 1990

"Leonidas Polk, A Memoir Written by His Wife for Their Children," Frances Ann Devereux Polk, undated

Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, VII, 1938, The Bishop Polk Centennial Number,
1838-1938:

Leonidas Polk:

"Early Life and Presbyterate," William Wilson Manross

"Missionary Episcopate in the Southwest," Walter Herbert Stowe

"Diocesan Episcopate in Louisiana," William Samuel Slack

"Beginnings of the University of the South," Moultrie Guerry

"The Confederate General," James Postell Jervey

"Funeral Sermon, June 29, 1864," Stephen Elliott, Bishop of Georgia

"The Ante-Bellum Career of Leonidas Polk," Vera Lee Dugas, The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 2, April, 1949

"The Atlanta Campaign- The Death of a Bishop," Stephen Davis, Blue and Gray Magazine, June 1989

"The Fighting Bishop," Walter Brian Cisco, Southern Partisan, Volume XXIV, No. 2, February 2005

THE POLKS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE, Mrs. Frank M. Angellotti, 1923-1924, 1984

"HITHER AND YON" II, More of the Writings of Jill K. Garrett, A Publication of the Polk Memorial Association, Carese Parker, Editor, 1992

THE EPISCOPATE IN AMERICA, Sketches, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Bishops of the American Church, with the Preliminary Essay on the historic Episcopate and Documentary Annals of the introduction of the Anglican line of succession into America, William Stevens Perry, 1895

THE EPISCOPALIANS, The Protestant Episcopal Church, Kathleen Elgin, 1970

EPISCOPALIANS AND RACE, Civil War to Civil Rights, Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., 2000

JAMES HERVEY OTEY, First Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, Donald Smith Armentrout, 1984

SERMONS BY THE RIGHT REVEREND STEPHEN ELLIOTT, D.D., with a Memoir, by Thomas M. Hanckel, Esq, 1867

"Bishop Stephen Elliott and the Confederate Episcopal Church," Edgar Legare Pennington, The Georgia Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 1950

DOCTOR QUINTARD, CHAPLAIN, C.S.A. and SECOND BISHOP of TENNESSEE, The Memoir and Civil War Diary of Charles Todd Quintard, edited by Sam Davis Elliott, 2003

GEORGE RAINSFORD FAIRBANKS: A MAN OF MANY FACETS, Arthur Joseph Lynch, 1999

I HAVE LOOKED DEATH IN THE FACE, Biography of William Porcher DuBose, John M. Wilson, 1996

SOME MEMORIES, Thomas Frank Gailor (Third Bishop of Tennessee, First President of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, Chancellor of The University of the South, 1908-1935), 1937

THE RECENT PAST- FROM A SOUTHERN STANDPOINT, BISHOP WILMER'S REMINISCENCES, Dedicated to The Cause of Truth, Right, and Peace, Richard H. Wilmer, Bishop of Alabama, 1887, 1900

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF TENNESSEE, Rev. Arthur Howard Noll, 1900

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN GEORGIA,1733-1957, Henry T. Malone, 1960

WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST, The Episcopal Church in Arkansas, 1838-1971, Margaret Simms
McDonald, 1975

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN TEXAS, 1838-1874, From Its Foundation to the Division of the Diocese, Lawrence L. Brown, 1963

THE DIOCESE OF LOUISIANA: SOME OF ITS HISTORY, 1838-1888, Also, Some of the History of its Parishes and Missions, 1805-1888, Rev. Herman Cope Duncan, M.A., 1888

SO GREAT A GOODA History of the Episcopal Church in Louisiana and of Christ Church Cathedral, 1805-1955, Hodding Carter and Betty W. Carter, 1955

TEN DECADES OF PRAISE, The Story of the Community of Saint Mary During its First Century: 1865 to 1965, Sister Mary Hilary, C.S.M, 1965, 1967

"The Battle at Sewanee," Edgar Legare Pennington, reprint from Tennessee Historical Quarterly, IX, September 1950

"Sewanee and the Cumberland Plateau in the Civil War," George Reynolds to the Ecce Quam Bonum Club of Sewanee, Tennessee, Archives of THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, undated

"Confederate Action in Franklin County, Tennessee," Harold Malcolm Hannah, Franklin County Historical Review, Volume XXIII, Number 2, 1992

"The War of 1861-65, a Franklin County Perspective," Virginia McKown Brock, Editor, Franklin County Historical Review, Volume XXVIII, 1998

THE JOURNALS OF JOSIAH GORGAS, 1857-1878, edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, 1995

PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS: JOSIAH GORAS AND CONFEDERATE ORDNANCE, Frank Vandiver, 1952, 1980

GENERAL KIRBY-SMITH, Arthur Howard Noll, 1907

KIRBY SMITH'S CONFEDERACY: THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI SOUTH, 1863-1865, Robert Kirby, 1991

GENERAL EDMUND KIRBY SMITH, C.S.A., Joseph H. Parks, 1992

THE SOLDIER-BISHOP ELLISON CAPERS, By Bishop Caper's Son and President of Columbia Institute, Walter B. Capers, 1912

SONS OF THE SOUTH, Clayton Rand, 1961, 1967

GENERALS IN GRAY, Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Ezra J. Warner, 1959, 1965

CONFEDERATE GENERALS, Life Portraits, George Cantor, 2000

THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Stanley F. Horn, 1941

TENNESSEE'S WAR, 1861-1865, Described by Participants, Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission, Stanley F. Horn, 1965

GUIDE TO THE CIVIL WAR IN TENNESSEE, Civil War Centennial Commission, Nashville, Tennessee, Second Edition 1961, Third Revised Edition, 1977

CONFEDERATE MORALE AND CHURCH PROPAGANDA, James Silver, 1957

LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE,
William Alexander Percy, 1941 and 1998

I'LL TAKE MY STAND, Twelve Southerners, including Andrew Lytle, 1930, etc.

FROM EDEN TO BABYLON: THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS OF ANDREW NELSON LYTLE, by Andrew Nelson Lytle, Edited by M. E. Bradford, 1990 (Includes "A Christian University and the Word," delivered during the Founders' Day Convocation in All Saints' Chapel, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH at Sewanee, Tennessee, on October 10, 1964, the centennial anniversary year of Bishop-General Leonidas Polk's death on Pine Mountain, Georgia, June 14, 1864.)

THE SOUTHERN TRADITION AT BAY, A History of Postbellum Thought, Richard M. Weaver, 1968, edited by George Core and M. E. Bradford, 1989

BAPTIZED IN BLOOD, The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865 - 1920, Charles Reagan Wilson, 1980

DIXIE'S DAUGHTERS: THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY AND THE PRESERVATIOIN OF CONFEDERATE CULTURE, Karen L. Cox, 2003


GONE WITH THE WIND, Margaret Mitchell, 1936

WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, Charles Adams, 2000

THE MORALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE: REDISCOVERING AN ANCIENT ALTERNATIVE TO THE LIBERAL TRADITION, Thomas Fleming, 2004

ELY, Too Black, Too White, Ely Green, edited by Elizabeth N. and Arthur Ben Chitty, 1970



More Reading on Southern History:

Click here for Dr. Clyde N. Wilson's book recommendations.
Click here to read Dr. Clyde N. Wilson's columns (1) and (2).

Required Reading for the Educated Student at THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH:

ATLAS SHRUGGED, Ayn Rand, 1957 (the centennial year of the founding of THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH)


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