Murder, Honor, and Law

Richard F Hamm

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• In 1868 a scion of one of the leading families of Richmond, Virginia, ambushed and killed the city's most controversial journalist over an article tha... Lees meer

The Princess of Albemarle

Jane Turner Censer

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• At the turn of the twentieth century, Amélie Rives was one of the most famous women in America. A member of Virginia's First Families--and granddaught... Lees meer

The Risen Phoenix

Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• The Risen Phoenix charts the changing landscape of black politics and political culture in the postwar South by focusing on the careers of six black c... Lees meer

Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia

Randolph Ferguson Scully

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia provides a new interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by ... Lees meer

In the True Blue's Wake

Daniel B Thorp

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True Blue, an English slave ship. Over the next century, th... Lees meer

Ladies and Gentlemen on Display

Charlene M Boyer Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes... Lees meer

Lynching of Emmett Till

Christopher Metress

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi... Lees meer

Designing Dixie

Reiko Hillyer

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in sout... Lees meer

A Way Out of No Way

Dianne Swann-Wright

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• Using the experiences of her own family of freed slaves, the author looks at relations between plantation owners and their slaves after emancipation, ... Lees meer

A Way Out of No Way

Dianne Swann-Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• An African American folk saying declares, "Our God can make a way out of no way.... He can do anything but fail." When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to ... Lees meer

Driven to the Field

David A Davis

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping--crucial to understanding life in the southern United States--from Emancipation to the twenty-... Lees meer

Capital and Convict

Henry Kamerling

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of ... Lees meer

Against the Hounds of Hell

Peter Eisenstadt

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• An inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and other leaders of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman was a crucial figure in the his... Lees meer

Ladies and Gentlemen on Display

Charlene M Boyer Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes... Lees meer

Facing Freedom

Daniel B Thorp

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans an... Lees meer

South by Southwest

James D Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• Between 1815 and 1861 thousands of planters formed a unique emigrant group in American history. A slaveholding, landholding elite, southerners from Ge... Lees meer

Forgotten Time

John C Willis

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• Although it came to epitomize the Cotton South in the twentieth century, the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta emerged as a distinct entity in the decades follo... Lees meer

What Reconstruction Meant

Bruce E Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this chal... Lees meer

The Uplift Generation

Clayton McClure Brooks

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• Offering a fresh look at interracial cooperation in the formative years of Jim Crow, The Uplift Generation examines how segregation was molded, not by... Lees meer

What Reconstruction Meant

Bruce E Baker

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this chal... Lees meer

A Deed So Accursed

Terence Finnegan

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and ... Lees meer

Slave in a Box

Maurice M Manring

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• In "Slave in a Box," M. M. Manring investigates why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evoluti... Lees meer

Radical Reform

Deborah Beckel

• Hardcover | Engels | American South
• Radical Reform describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement. It portrays the largely unknown leaders of the interracial Repub... Lees meer

Haunted Bodies

• Paperback | Engels | American South
• In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary c... Lees meer