Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old SouthA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as a work of enormous imagination and enterprise and in The New York Times as an important, original book, Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal documents, letters, diaries, and newspaper columns, Wyatt Brown