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From antebellum readers avidly consuming stories featuring white southern men as benevolent patriarchs, hell-raising frontiersmen, and callous plantation owners to post--Civil War southern writers see
Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights
"This cogent and polished book offers a fresh discussion of and perspective on a fraught topic---military prisons during the Civil War. In his compelling and important work, Cloyd urges us to ponder h
Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the moveme
Whayne (history, U. of Arkansas), who has published and edited other books on Arkansas history, has written an in-depth account of the creation by Robert E. "Lee" Wilson of an enormous conglomeration
A Pulitzer-Prize winner, historian Douglas Southall Freeman had great influence upon the way the white Confederate soldiers' experience of the Civil War was understood. In this careful, thoroughly res
More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward s landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an essential text on the southern past. Today, a southern burden still ex
In Gendered Politics in the Modern South, Keira V. Williams uses the Susan Smith case to analyze what she calls the new sexism found in the agenda of the budding neo-conservative movement of the 1990s
In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with its partner, Educational Testing Services, the Coll
In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied aspect of U.S. civil rights history -- the collab
New Orleans on Parade tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's architecture, music, food and alcohol, folklore an
Offering new insights into Florida's position within the cultural legacy of the South,The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami explores the long fight for civil rights in one of the country's most popu
In the years following World War II, the national Democratic Party aligned its agenda more and more with the goals of the civil rights movement. By contrast, a majority of southern Democrats remained
Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow’s demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city’s education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegreg
Using an array of research in original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk management literature, James McSwain reveals how city officials in Houston,
Stephanie Rolph’s study examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organization committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. Founded in 1954, two months after
During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' sufferi
The separation of white and black schools remained largely unquestioned and unchallenged in North Carolina for the first half of the twentieth century, yet by the end of the 1970s, the Tar Heel State
A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South.In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-co
