ABSTRACT

This book illuminates singular aspects of Southern society and culture and provides justification for thinking about the South as a region unto itself. It also shows that the South in fact consists of many shifting social and cultural sub-regions.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|22 pages

The Nascent South

chapter |2 pages

The Mound Builders

chapter |2 pages

Indians and the Arrival of Europeans

chapter |2 pages

The Seeds of the South

chapter |2 pages

Importing Black America

chapter |2 pages

From Africans to African-Americans

chapter |2 pages

Diversity in Early America

chapter |4 pages

The Great Awakenings

chapter |2 pages

The American Revolution in the South

chapter |2 pages

The War of 1812

part II|22 pages

The Antebellum South

chapter |2 pages

The Trail of Tears

chapter |2 pages

The Peculiar Institution

chapter |2 pages

Cotton Becomes King

chapter |4 pages

The Battle over the West

chapter |2 pages

Bleeding Kansas and John Brown

chapter |4 pages

Democratic Divisions

part III|28 pages

The Confederate South

chapter |2 pages

The Secession Conventions

chapter |4 pages

An Unequal Divide

chapter |4 pages

Major Battles of the Civil War

chapter |2 pages

Bull Run

chapter |2 pages

Battle of the Crater

chapter |2 pages

Yankees in the South

chapter |4 pages

“The Hard Hand of War”

chapter |2 pages

The South Surrenders

chapter |2 pages

From Slavery to Freedom

part IV|26 pages

The New South

chapter |2 pages

Reconstruction

chapter |4 pages

Industrializing Dixie

chapter |2 pages

The Urbanization of the Agrarian South

chapter |2 pages

Cotton Culture and Sharecropping

chapter |2 pages

The Praying South

chapter |2 pages

Lynching and the New Racial Order

chapter |2 pages

The Great Migration

chapter |4 pages

The Progressive Movement

part V|22 pages

The Modern South

chapter |2 pages

The Tennessee Valley Authority

chapter |2 pages

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Buses

chapter |2 pages

The Freedom Rides

chapter |2 pages

Voting Rights

chapter |2 pages

From Rust Belt to Sun Belt

chapter |2 pages

The Demise of the Solid South

chapter |2 pages

Robert E. Lee and the Modern Lost Cause

chapter |4 pages

The End of the South?

chapter |2 pages

“Dixie on My Mind”