A Higher Mission

Kimberly D Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African ... Lees meer

de Bow's Review

John F Kvach

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to m... Lees meer

The Civil War Guerrilla

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by ... Lees meer

My Brother Slaves

Sergio A Lussana

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared ... Lees meer

Entangled by White Supremacy

Janet G. Hudson

• Hardcover | New Directions in Southern History
• Analyzes World War I - era South Carolina, a state whose white minority maintained political power by enforcing white supremacy over an African Americ... Lees meer

Bloody Breathitt

T R C Hutton

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America's most famous feud, bu... Lees meer

Remembering the Battle of the Crater

Kevin M Levin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• The battle of the Crater is known as one of the Civil War's bloodiest struggles-a Union loss with combined casualties of 5,000, many of whom were memb... Lees meer

Rethinking the Civil War Era

Paul D Escott

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Arguably, no event since the American Revolution has had a greater impact on US history than the Civil War. This devastating and formative conflict oc... Lees meer

A Rape in the Early Republic

Alexander Smyth

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia. In the early nineteenth... Lees meer

Bluecoats and Tar Heels

Mark L Bradley

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Though the Civil War ended in April 1865, the conflict between Unionists and Confederates continued. The bitterness and rancor resulting from the coll... Lees meer

The U.S. South and Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force-not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The regi... Lees meer

Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

Bruce E Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during th... Lees meer

Southern Farmers and Their Stories

Melissa Walker

• Hardcover | New Directions in Southern History
• Examining oral history narratives of more than five hundred farmers from all the southern states, this work explores how farmers recall their agrarian... Lees meer

Becoming Bourgeois

Frank J Byrne

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the group falling between the mass of yeoman ... Lees meer

Mountains on the Market

Randal L Hall

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Manufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century... Lees meer

Lum and Abner

Randal L Hall

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs and musical performances about rural Americans-farmers and small-town residents struggli... Lees meer

Blood in the Hills

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage... Lees meer

Law and Society in the South

John W. Wertheimer

• Hardcover | New Directions in Southern History
• Covers eight pivotal legal disputes heard in North Carolina courts between the 1830s and the 1970s and examines some of the most controversial issues ... Lees meer

Reconstructing Appalachia

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Families, communities, and the nation itself were irretrievably altered by the Civil War and the subsequent societal transformations of the nineteenth... Lees meer

Willis Duke Weatherford

Andrew McNeill Canady

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• At the turn of the twentieth century, few white, southern leaders would speak out in favor of racial equality for fear of being dismissed as too progr... Lees meer

Bloody Breathitt

T R C Hutton

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America's most famous feud, bu... Lees meer

The Civil War Guerrilla

Christopher Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by ... Lees meer

Cowboy Conservatism

Sean P Cunningham

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• During the 1960s and 1970s, Texas was rocked by a series of political transitions. Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the rise of the modern right examine... Lees meer

The Long Civil War

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Southern History
• In this wide-ranging volume , eminent historians John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault assemble a distinguished group of scholars to build on the gro... Lees meer