Major Problems in the History of the American South The New South

The fascinating collection of essays and documents in these volumes provides a comprehensive view of the culture of the American South as well as its political, social, and economic history. The compelling documents are grouped with important secondary sources, accompanied by chapter introductions, selection headnotes, and suggested readings.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What Is the South?
ESSAYS
W. J. Cash, The Continuity of Southern History
C. Vann Woodward, The Discontinuity of Southern History
David L. Smiley, Quest for a Central Theme
John B. Boles, The Difficulty of Consensus on the South
2. Reconstructing the South
DOCUMENTS
Constitutional Amendments 13, 14, and 15
The Military Reconstruction Act, 1867
J. R. Johnson Preaches on Marriage Covenants and Legal Rights, 1866
Edward Coleman Seeks Child Custody, 1866
A Southern Newspaper Denounces Reconstruction, 1869
Congressional Testimony on the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
Instructions to Red Shirts in South Carolina, 1876
Thomas Nast Views Reconstruction, 1865, 1874
ESSAYS
Laura F. Edwards, The Marriage Covenant Is at the Foundation of All Our Rights"
William C. Harris, Carpetbaggers in Reality
Eric Foner, Black Activism and the Ku Klux Klan
3. Land and Labor in the New South
DOCUMENTS
A Sharecropping Contract, 1886
A Crop Lien, 1876
Nate Shaw's Story (c. 1910), 1971
William Alexander Percy views Sharecropping, 1941
William A. Owens Comments on Tenant Farm Life in 1906
Tenants and Farmers Assess the New South, 1887-1889
ESSAYS
Jonathan M. Wiener, Bound Labor in Southern Agriculture
Sharon Ann Holt, Freedpeople Working for Themselves
4. Industry, Workers, and the Myth of the New South
DOCUMENTS
Speeches by Henry W. Grady on the New South, 1886, 1889
D. A. Tompkins on the New South, c. 1900
The Myth of the "Cotton Mill Campaign," 1921
A Black Entrepreneur Builds a Cotton Mill, 1896
Mill Workers' Comments on the New South, 1887
Bertha Miller Recalls Her Days as a Cotton Mill Girl (1915), 1984
Appalachian Coal Mines and Laborers
ESSAYS
C. Vann Woodward, The Rise of Southern Industry
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Robert Korstad, and James L. Leloudis II, The Lives and Labors of the Cotton Mill People
Daniel Letwin, Interracial Unionism and Gender in the Alabama Coalfields, 1878-1908
5. From Redeemers to Populists
DOCUMENTS
Letters from Alliance Women in Texas, 1888
Farmers Describe the Crisis, 1890s
The Ocala Platform, 1890
Tom Watson's Strategy, 1892
A Populist Speaker Responds, 1898
ESSAYS
Dewey Grantham, Forging the Solid South
Edward L. Ayers, Alliances and Populists
6. Race, Violence, Disfranchisement, and Segregation
DOCUMENTS
Ida B. Wells Reports the Horrors of Lynching in the South, 1892
Lynching in the United States, 1882-1930
Literacy Test and Poll Tax, 1899
Black Leaders Fight Disfranchisement, 1895
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
Democrats Fight Back: The White-Supremacy Campaign, 1898
Walter White Remembers the Atlanta Race Riot, 1906
ESSAYS
Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order
David Montejano, The Culture of Segregation
7. Southern Religion and the Lost Cause
DOCUMENTS
Two Hymns
W. E. B. Du Bois on the Faith of the Fathers, 1903
Sermon of John Lakin Brasher
Lillian Smith on Lessons About God and Guilt
U.D.C. Catechism for Children, 1912
Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin on the Lost Cause
ESSAYS
Paul Harvey, Redeeming the South
Charles Reagan Wilson, The Lost Cause as Civil Religion
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Women, Religion, and the Lost Cause
8. The Progressive South in the Age of Jim Crow: Promise and Pardox
DOCUMENTS
Charles W. Dabney on the Public-School Problem in the South, 1901
Edgar Gardner Murphy on Child Labor in Alabama, 1901
The Southern Sociological Congress's Agenda for Reforming the South, 1914
Hoke Smith's Gubernatorial Inaugural Address, 1907
Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
W.E.B. Du Bois Denounces Washington's Accommodationist Policies, 1903
ESSAYS
Dewey W. Grantham, The Promise of Southern Progressivism
William A. Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism
9. New Women, New South, New Prospects
DOCUMENTS
Rebecca Latimer Felton Endorses Prohibition, 1985
Anita Julia cooper's "Voice from the South," 1892
Mary Church Terrell Speaks on the Role of Modern Woman
Women Urge President Woodrow Wilson to Endorse Suffrage, 1914
Anitsuffragists Raise the Race issue
Annie Webb Blanton Runs for State Office, 1918
ESSAYS
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Womenhood, Race, and the WCTU, 1881-1898
Jacqueline Anne Rouse, The Atlanta Neighborhood Union, 1908-1924
Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, The Woman Suffrage Movement in the Inhospitable South
10. In Search of the Modern South
DOCUMENTS
John Crowe Ransom Takes a Stand for the Agrarian Way of Life, 1930
Leading Southern Cities, 1920 (map)
First International Pageant of Pulchritude, Galveston, Texas, c. 1926
Ku Klux Klan Propaganda
The Reverend Amazi Clarence Dixon on the Evils of Evolution, 1922
Dr William L. Poteat Criticizes Fundamentalism, 1925
ESSAYS
Richard H. King, Explaining the Southern Renaissance
Nancy Maclean, Mobilizing the Invisible Army
Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.,After Scopes: Evolution in the South
11. Turning Points? The New Deal and World War II
DOCUMENTS
Florence Reece's "Which Side Are You On?" 1931
Huey Long, "Every Man a King," 1933
The President's Council Reports on Southern Economic Conditions, 1938
The Tenant Child
Dorothea Lange Photographs the Depression
Perspectives on "What the Negro Wants," 1944
Smith v. Allwright, 1944
ESSAYS
Martha H. Swain, A New Deal for Southern Women
James C. Cobb, The Impact of World War II on the American South
12. Race Relations and Freedom Struggles
DOCUMENTS
Melton McLaurin Recalls Segregation
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954
The Southern Manifesto, 1956
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson on the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
Letter from Alabama Clergy, 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 1964
ESSAYS
David L. Chappell, White Southerners and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Clayborne Carson, Black Freedom Struggles
13. Race, Politics, and Religion in the Recent South
DOCUMENTS
Jimmy Carter's Gubernatorial Inaugural Address, 1971
Interviews with a Republican and a Democratic Leader, 1981, 1982
Cartoonist Doug Marlette's View of Political Segregation, 1985
Andrew Young's State of the City Address, 1989
Southern Baptists Apologize for Slavery and Racism, 1995
The Religious Right Joins the Republican Party, 1980-1992
The Solid South, 1996
Republican Party Advances in the South, 1980-1998 (map)
ESSAYS
David R. Goldfield, Beyond Race in the Modern South
Earl Black and Merle Black, The Vital South
Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, The New Christian Right in Virginia
14. The South Lives (Moves) On
ESSAYS
Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt
Raymond Arsenault, Air Conditioner and Southern Culture
Howard L. Preston, Will Dixie Disappear?"

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Thomas G. Paterson, professor emeritus of history at the University of Connecticut, graduated from the University of New Hampshire (B.A., 1963) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1968). He is the author of Soviet-American Confrontation (1973), Meeting the Communist Threat (1988), On Every Front (1992), Contesting Castro (1994), America Ascendant (with J. Garry Clifford, 1995), and A People and a Nation (with Mary Beth Norton et al., 2001). Tom is also the editor of Cold War Critics (1971), Kennedy's Quest for Victory (1989), Imperial Surge (with Stephen G. Rabe, 1992), The Origins of the Cold War (with Robert McMahon, 1999), Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (with Michael J. Hogan, 2004), and Major Problems in American Foreign Relations (with Dennis Merrill, 2010). With Bruce Jentleson, he served as senior editor for the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations (1997). A microfilm edition of The United States and Castro's Cuba, 1950s-1970s: The Paterson Collection appeared in 1999. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of American History and Diplomatic History. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he has directed National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers. In 2000 the New England History Teachers Association recognized his excellence in teaching and mentoring with the Kidger Award. Besides visits to many American campuses, Tom has lectured in Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russia, and Venezuela. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, which in 2008 honored him with the Laura and Norman Graebner Award for lifetime achievement" in scholarship, service, and teaching. A native of Oregon, Tom is now informally associated with Southern Oregon University."Paul Escott is Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University. His academic degrees are from Harvard College and Duke University. Among his books are AFTER SECESSION: JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE FAILURE OF CONFEDERATE NATIONALISM, SLAVERY REMEMBERED: A RECORD OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY SLAVE NARRATIVES, MANY EXCELLENT PEOPLE: POWER AND PRIVILEGE IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1850-1900, MILITARY NECESSITY: CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN THE CONFEDERACY, “WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE NEGRO?”: LINCOLN, WHITE RACISM, AND CIVIL WAR AMERICA, and THE CONFEDERACY: THE SLAVEHOLDERS’ FAILED VENTURE.David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. A native of Memphis, he grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor of fifteen books mostly dealing with the history of the American South, two of which received the Mayflower Award for Non-Fiction. His most recent book is AMERICA AFLAME: HOW THE CIVIL WAR CREATED A NATION (Bloomsbury Press, 2011).Sally G. McMillen, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History at Davidson College, earned her Ph.D. from Duke University. Previous publications include MOTHERHOOD IN THE OLD SOUTH (1990), SOUTHERN WOMEN: BLACK AND WHITE IN THE OLD SOUTH (1991), TO RAISE UP THE SOUTH: SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN BLACK AND WHITE CHURCHES, 1865-1915 (2001), SENECA FALLS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT (2008) as well as several articles in the Journal of Southern History and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. She is currently working on a biography of Lucy Stone.Elizabeth Hayes Turner, professor of history at the University of North Texas, earned her Ph.D. from Rice University. She is the author of WOMEN, CULTURE, AND COMMUNITY: RELIGION AND REFORM IN GALVESTON, 1880-1920 (1997); WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE NEW SOUTH, 1865-1945 (2009); co-author of GALVESTON AND THE 1900 STORM: CATASTROPHE AND CATALYST (2000); and co-editor of five books, including LONE STAR PASTS: MEMORY AND HISTORY IN TEXAS (2005). She is the author of several articles in edited anthologies and the Southern Literary Journal and is currently completing a book JUNETEENTH: THE EVOLUTION OF AN EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul Escott, Paul D. Escott, David Goldfield, David R. Goldfield, Sally G. McMillen, Thomas Paterson, Thomas G. Paterson, Elizabeth Hayes Turner
• Mitarbeit: Paul D. Escott (Herausgeber), David R. Goldfield (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.05.1999
• EAN: 9780395871409
• ISBN: 978-0-395-87140-9
• Seiten: 480
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte