Table of Contents:
  • The politics of marriage and households in North Carolina during reconstruction / Laura F. Edwards
  • Negotiating and transforming the public sphere: African American political life in the transition from slavery to freedom / Elsa Barkley Brown
  • One man's mob is another man's militia: violence, manhood, and authority in reconstruction South Carolina / Stephen Kantrowitz
  • The limits of liberalism in the new south: the politics of race, sex, and patronage in Virginia, 1879-1883 / Jane Dailey
  • White women and the politics of historical memory in the new south, 1880-1920 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
  • William J. Northen's public and personal struggles against lynching / David F. Godshalk
  • "For colored" and "for white": segregating consumption in the south / Grace Elizabeth Hale
  • The Leo Frank case reconsidered: gender and sexual politics in the making of reactionary populism / Nancy MacLean
  • False friends and avowed enemies: Southern African Americans and party allegiances in the 1920s / Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
  • Race reactions: African American organizing, liberalism, and white working-class politics in postwar South Carolina / Bryant Simon
  • "As a man, I am interested in states' rights": gender, race, and the family in the Dixiecrat party, 1948-1950 / Kari Frederickson
  • Dynamite and "the silent south": a story from the second reconstruction in South Carolina / Timothy B. Tyson.