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? Author: Woodward, C. Vann Publisher: LSU Press Illustration: n Language: ENG Title: Origins of the New South, 1877--1913: A History of the South Pages: 00672...

Historians have long recognized the middle of the twentieth century as significant in the history of the modern South, owing...

More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward's landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an...

From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman's troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James...

Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809 -1877), a principle architect of the South's "Lost Cause" mythology, remains one of the Civil War...

Hinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857),...

In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Southern Agriculture Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful...

During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a...

The first scholarly account of the South Carolina Democrat's career and the transformation of southern U.S. politics and society during...

The first four volumes of Marcel Giraud's History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the...

Because Texas emerged from the western frontier relatively late in the formation of the antebellum nation, it is frequently and...

Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights...

Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across...

In "Black, White, and Southern," David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that...

Based on events that began in Saint-Domingue on August 21, 1791, The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection vividly dramatizes the...

In the autumn of 1857, sustained runs on New York banks led to a panic atmosphere that affected the American...

While most Americans count Abraham Lincoln among the most beloved and admired former presidents, a dedicated minority has long viewed...

In Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War, Jonathan White reveals how the arrest and prosecution of this little-known...

A diverse collection of essays about a civil rights leader who played a major role in the desegregation of South...

In his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the...