Tales from the Haunted South (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)

The "Ghosts of the South" book by Tiya Miles is a thought-provoking exploration into the popular yet problematic phenomenon of "ghost tours." Through an incisive examination of popular sites and stories, Miles reveals how these tours often appropriate and skew African American history for commercial gain.

By shining light on the hard truths of the Civil War era and the erasure of those realities from ghost tours, this book serves as a call to historic sites to undertake the hard work of telling complex stories about the past.

With its engaging narrative and well-chosen imagery, "Ghosts of the South" is a page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats in anticipation of the next sentence.

Highly recommended for public historians, scholars of slavery and its current-day legacies, and anyone interested in the gothic South.