NOTA BENE

Stubborn as a Saint

By NINA C. AYOUB

George B. Ellenberg says he has a new angle on Southern history — from the "back end of a cotton mule." The animal that William Faulkner called "anonymous avatar of intractable Mule" was once so common, says the University of West Florida historian, that its ubiquity hid its importance to the South. "Some Homer of the cotton fields...

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