| Series |
New directions in southern history
New directions in southern history. ^A700550
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| Contents |
A new frontier : historians, Appalachian history, and the aftermath of the Civil War / Andrew L. Slap -- Reconstruction-era violence in north Georgia : the Mossy Creek Ku Klux Klan's defense of local autonomy / Keith S. Hébert -- UnReconstructed Appalachia : the persistence of war in Appalachia / T.R.C. Hutton -- "The other war was but the beginning" : the politics of loyalty in western North Carolina, 1865-1867 / Steven E. Nash -- "Resistless uprising"? : Thomas Dixon's uncle and western North Carolinians as Klansmen and statesmen / Paul Yandle -- Reconstructing race : Parson Brownlow and the rhetoric of race in postwar east Tennessee / Kyle Osborn -- Gathering Georgians to Zion : John Hamilton Morgan's 1876 mission to Georgia / Mary Ella Engel -- "Neither war nor peace" : West Virginia's reconstruction experience / Randall S. Gooden -- A house redivided : from sectionalism to political economy in West Virginia / Ken Fones-Wolf -- "Grudges and loyalties die so slowly" : contested memories of the Civil War in Pennsylvania's Appalachia / Robert M. Sandow -- The lost cause that wasn't : east Tennessee and the myth of unionist Appalachia / Tom Lee -- "A Northern wedge thrust into the heart of the Confederacy" : explaining Civil War loyalties in the age of Appalachian discovery, 1900-1921 / John C. Inscoe -- Civil War memory in eastern Kentucky is "predominately white" : the Confederate flag in unionist Appalachia / Anne E. Marshall. |
| Abstract |
Andrew L. Slap's Reconstructing Appalachia examines life in Appalachia after the ravages of the Civil War, an unexplored area that represents a void in historical literature. Addressing a gap in the chronicles of our nation, this vital anthology explores little-known aspects of history with a particular emphasis on the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction periods. Acclaimed scholars John C. Inscoe and Ken Fones-Wolf are joined by up-and-comers like Mary Ella Engel, Anne E. Marshall, and Kyle Osborn in a unique collection of essays investigating postwar Appalachia with clarity and precision. Featuring a broad geographic focus, these compelling essays cover postwar events in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. This approach yields an intimate portrait of Appalachia as a diverse collection of communities where the values of place and family are of crucial importance. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009053154 |
| ISBN | 9780813125817 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813125812 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
