In the New York Times best seller Confederates in the Attic, author Tony Horwitz critically examines the ancestral, cultural, and philosophical ties Southerners have with the Confederacy and how these connections resonate in the South today. A Civil War enthusiast from his childhood, Horowitz’s journey begins when he meets Robert Lee Hodge, a “hardcore Civil War battle reenactor” from Virginia. Hodge invites Horowitz to join him and his men on a night campout one weekend and Horowitz immediately develops a fascination toward the level of commitment the reenactors have to their craft. This leads him to wonder how other areas preserve the memory and history of the Confederacy, and he decides to embark on a historical pursuit across the South to find some answers. Horowitz ventures through ten of the eleven previous secession states, documenting the insights of his southern peers in an amusing and thought provoking manner.