In this review of Francis B. Simkins’ The South Old and New, William M. Brewer, supervising director of the department of history in Washington, D.C., public schools, points out how the author’s identity as a southerner influences how he tells the history of the region from 1820 to 1947. Simkins taught history of Longwood College and was president of the Southern Historical Association. He was one of the authors of seventh-grade textbooks produced by the Virginia History and Textbook Commission in the 1950s. Brewer was a longtime editor of the Journal of Negro History after its founder, Carter G. Woodson, died.
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