Delaying the Dream

Keith M Finley

• Paperback | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many histor... Lees meer

A Campaign of Quiet Persuasion

Jan Bates Wheeler

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with i... Lees meer

Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace

Yasuhiro Katagiri

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied... Lees meer

Transforming the South

Matthew L Downs

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Historians have long recognized the middle of the twentieth century as significant in the history of the modern South, owing to a convergence of socia... Lees meer

Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America

• Paperback | Engels | Making the Modern South
• "A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies -- from li... Lees meer

Jim Crow's Counterculture

R a Lawson

• Paperback | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Cro... Lees meer

The Ongoing Burden of Southern History

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward's landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an essential text on th... Lees meer

Gendered Politics in the Modern South

Keira V Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In the fall of 1994 Susan Smith, a young mother from Union, South Carolina, reported that an African American male carjacker had kidnapped her two chi... Lees meer

Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow

Brendan J J Payne

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restric... Lees meer

Sustaining Southern Identity

Keith D Dickson

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century, helped shap... Lees meer

White Masculinity in the Recent South

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• From antebellum readers avidly consuming stories featuring white southern men as benevolent patriarchs, hell-raising frontiersmen, and callous plantat... Lees meer

Maintaining Segregation

Leeann G Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In Maintaining Segregation , LeeAnn G. Reynolds explores how black and white children in the early twentieth-century South learned about segregation i... Lees meer

Southern Modernist

Louis Mazzari

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Louis Mazzari brings to the fore one of the most important figures of the southern regionalist movement in the New Deal era. His is the first biograph... Lees meer

New Orleans on Parade

J Mark Souther

• Paperback | Engels | Making the Modern South
• 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 ... Lees meer

Petroleum and Public Safety

James B McSwain

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas i... Lees meer

Haunted by Atrocity

Benjamin G Cloyd

• Paperback | Engels | Making the Modern South
• 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... Lees meer

Resisting Equality

Stephanie R Rolph

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organization committed to coordinating opposition to desegr... Lees meer

Troubled Commemoration

Robert J Cook

• Paperback | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, ... Lees meer

Delta Empire

Jeannie Whayne

• Paperback | Engels | Making the Modern South
• In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful planta... Lees meer

Creating a Progressive Commonwealth

Megan Taylor Shockley

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Building upon the work of late twentieth-century scholars in the field of feminist studies, Megan Taylor Shockley provides an in-depth look at feminis... Lees meer

Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South

Brandon T Jett

• Paperback | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Winner of the Florida Book Award general nonfiction category Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maint... Lees meer

Resident Strangers

Jennifer E Brooks

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white ... Lees meer

Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South

Brandon T Jett

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• Winner of the Florida Book Award general nonfiction category Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maint... Lees meer

Race and Restoration

Barclay Key

• Hardcover | Engels | Making the Modern South
• From the late nineteenth century to the dawn of the civil rights era, the Churches of Christ operated outside of conventional racial customs. Many of ... Lees meer