South

Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to...

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that...

The author tells the story of Memphis before 1900 as an approach to the study of a complex region where, in antebellum days, West met South, agriculture was linked with commerce, and, during the Civil War, economic interest clashed with sectional loyalty...

This is a collection of case studies of the effects of injunctions in southern towns which is based on court records and interviews with local officials and contestants involved in the cases. The author has examined the facts and has taken special care...

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and...

After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following...

For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired,...

This book begins with a social and economic picture of our ancestors in Europe and ends with a discussion of the recovery measures of Roosevelt in 1933. The authors demonstrate the influence of social and political forces on the growth of democracy, and...

This volume contains an account of the history of the library from its earliest acquisitions by gift during the first session of the university in 1795 to its holdings of some half-million volumes by 1945; details of its system of cooperation with...

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging...

When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the ""tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt."" Illustrated...

On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and...

Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans...

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill...

During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David...

In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry...

The author has drawn on newly discovered manuscripts and the United States Treasury archives to present for the first time a complete picture of the Sea Islands during the Federal occupation throughout the Civil War. The book contains interesting...

This is a study of conditions that are extremely unfavorable to the farmer in marketing America's sixth most important crop and of the economic forces that have created these conditions. After a description of tobacco culture, Woofter presents an...

This book is designed as an aid to the study of Southern Regions of the United States by Howard W. Odum. It will help any person or group in a factual and penetrating study of the entire South, especially as that region stands in comparison with the rest...

Writing with the intimate knowledge of a man who has carried on research among people on an Alabama upland plantation over a period of two decades, Nixon speaks with authority of the problems of the soil. He has seen oxen replaced by tractors and knows...

The Commission on Country Life was appointed by President Thyeodore roosevelt on 10 August 1908; on 23 January 1909 its report was presented to the president. The purpose of the commission was to determine the status of country life in the United States,...

This volume explores questions concerning the nature, use, and welfare of the human resources found in the South and also considers their relationship to the rest of the nation. The author presents the factual basis on which they must be answered...

By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell...

Truett has undertaken a study of the earliest history of America using as his foundation the Indian trails and traces and the trading paths of the early settlers. It is a sympathetic portrayal of the people who traveled these roads, of the inns and...

This composite picture of the present-day South is a far cry from the traditional South of sentimental novels. The symposium, including chapters by thirty-one economists, sociologists, educators, artists, and writers, is the most comprehensive,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865264946Author William N. Still Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office...

Miss Lucy went to the North Carolina mountains in 1920 as an apprentice teacher, but she soon discovered that the kind of teaching that she wanted to do was not in the fields in which she was trained. What interested her most was already there among the...

This study is a detailed history of men and movements in southern education and is based largely upon first-hand information. In Volume I, the author tells the story of the long struggle for public schools. Volume II tells of the origin and development...

This study is a detailed history of men and movements in southern education and is based largely upon first-hand information. In Volume I, the author tells the story of the long struggle for public schools. Volume II tells of the origin and development...

This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented. This necessary analysis of lynching--its background, circumstances, and meaning--introduces...

The author of this challenging book does not discount the ties that hold the South to a one-party system; yet he presents convincing evidence that the region and its politics have been changing and that the trend is toward two-party politics. The most...

Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fields of work in the South--farm laborers and owners, factory and mill workers, people engaged in service occupations--and those on relief. A UNC Press...

This study describes the development of theater, amateur and professional, in the South during the forty-five-year period preceding the Civil War. Dormon establishes the nature of southern theatrical activity as reflected in programing, production, and...

In this history of the Southern Renaissance, Bradbury is concerned with the whole range of fiction, poetry, and drama in the fertile period since the twenties. He has evaluated the works, outlined the patterns, and related both to the traditions of the...

In this volume of memories of life in North Carolina during the first half of the twentieth century, Harris has, as is typical of her writing, portrayed the drama of the everyday, the mystery of common-place people, and the triumph of the human spirit...

Beginning with a study of the frontier mind, Davenport traces the cultural development of the city in the rise of schools, colleges, churches, and medical science; he gives special attention to the amusements of the day--drama, opera, concerts, and...

In the isolated North Carolina mountains, old-timers relive their lives in bits and pieces. They tell of a time when working together as a family was fun, when pleasures were simple, and when a handshake made a deal. Lauterer introduces thirty-five...

In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South's political history. In the 1800s, the region endured almost continuous political crisis nullification, secession, Reconstruction, the Populist revolt, and...

The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first...

In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement...