By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
February 4, 2026
The historian Frank L. Owsley is often described as a "sectional historian," meaning that he was a Southern historian, born in Alabama, writing from a Southern perspective. Similarly, the historian Clyde Wilson has been described as "a Southern historian" who is "a Southern partisan in the best sense," namely, one who offers "a Southern perspective on American history - one that yields interesting and important insights."