Bøger i American South Series serien

Revises understandings of the American South by offering a perspective on two iconic figures in the region's social landscape. ""Yeoman,"" a term of praise for the small landowning farmer, and ""redneck,"" an epithet that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. This work gives an account that combines economic, social, and political history.

Offers an interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing the complex, biracial history of the Baptist movement in southeastern Virginia.

Between 1815 and 1861 thousands of planters formed a unique emigrant group in American history. A slaveholding, landed elite, southerners from Georgia and South Carolina uprooted themselves, heading for their society's borderlands. This study examines this emigration and the debate surrounding it.

Fort Jackson, South Carolina, is one of the first Army bases to implement on a large scale President Truman's call for racial integration of the armed forces. This work reveals the impact of Fort Jackson's integration on the desegregation of civilian buses, schools, housing, and public facilities in the surrounding area.

Looks at an important aspect of southern memory: Reconstruction. This book examines what both white and black South Carolinians thought about the history of Reconstruction and how it shaped the way they lived their lives in the first half of the twentieth century. It addresses the dominant white construct of 'the dark days of Reconstruction'.