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V. 1. The old South. The Historians' South -- The Atlantic world -- Settlement of red, white, and black -- The maturing of the colonial South -- The revolutionary South and its aftermath -- The emergence of Southern nationalism -- The slaveholders' South -- The slave and free black experience -- Women's life and culture in the Old South -- Nonslaveholding whites -- Sectionalism and secession -- The Confederate experience -- Emancipation and Reconstruction -- v. 2. The new South. The historians' South -- Reconstructing the South -- Land and labor in the new South -- Mills, workers, and the myth of a new South -- The Southern populist movement -- The intimidation effect: disfranchisement, segregation, and violence -- Southern religion -- Southern memory and history -- The progressive South in the age of Jim Crow -- In search of the modern South -- Turning points? The New Deal to post-World War II -- Race relations and freedom struggles -- The recent South and its culture wars -- The South in America. |
