Southern History


The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
The Mind of the South
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
The Burden of Southern History
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Modern America)
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture)
To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975
Country Ham by Steve CoomesBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann WoodwardParting the Waters by Taylor BranchPillar of Fire by Taylor Branch
Southern History
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In the South, the dirt remembers every secret. Some rise up as ghosts, others as legends—and a few still walk beside us, wearing boots caked in the same red clay.
Tony Brooks

Imani Perry
When the crop that brought wealth under the banner of Christianity is found to destroy human lungs but trees older than Jesus breathe, it makes me think the meek shall inherit the earth.
Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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