Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
  • Part I. Precontact to the American revolution
  • The American South to 1600 : the ancient native South / Robbie Ethridge
  • Contact, conflict, and captivity in the seventeenth-century South / James D. Rice
  • Indians, Africans, and Europeans in the early South / Jon Sensbach
  • The Revolutionary era / Michael A. McDonnell
  • Part II. The long nineteenth century
  • The South and the new nation, 1783-1820 / Laura F. Edwards
  • The age of emancipation / Martha S. Jones
  • The South and the nation, 1840-1860 / Kate Masur
  • The southern nations, 1860-1880 / Gregory P. Downs
  • The Bourbon South / Scott Reynolds Nelson
  • Part III. The twentieth century. Bearing the burden of separate but equal in the Jim Crow South / Blair L. M. Kelley
  • The nature of reform in the early twentieth-century South / Natalie J. Ring
  • The South and the state in the twentieth century / Kari Frederickson
  • Southern religion and southern culture in the twentieth century / Paul Harvey
  • The southern economy in the long twentieth century / Peter A. Coclanis
  • The post-World War II Black freedom struggle / Kenneth R. Janken.