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Making a New South
By focusing on specific communities, these essays examine the efforts of individuals and small groups to build their vision of the New South. Ranging across the region, from Texas …
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, The Southern Dream remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics - Cuba, Mexico, …
From Rights to Economics
Rich with the voices of black and white southern workers, ""From Rights to Economics"" shows how ardently African Americans have had to continue fighting for economic parity in the …
Southern Ladies, New Women
Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their …
In the Country of the Enemy
Corporal Zenas T. Haines's dispatches from the Civil War in eastern North Carolina provide a detailed account of the history of a Massachusetts regiment operating in the hostile …
Counterfeit Gentlemen
Counterfeit Gentlemen is a stunning reappraisal of Southern manhood and identity that uses humor and humorists to carry the reader into the very heart of antebellum culture. What …
T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism by the time of his death in the early twentieth century. The editorship of three prominent …
The Wild East
This volume explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the 19th and 20th centuries. The author concludes that this national park, …