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A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today.

With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, mass immigration, and wars with continental neighbors. And yet eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, voices from the margins moved the center, acts of empathy defie...

Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers swept away the legacy of Reconstruction, from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham, from abuse and intimac...

Includes bibliographical references and index.

With an attention to time as the defining nature of history, this book offers students a view of American history as a compelling narrative. It emphasizes the intertwined nature of three key characteristics of time - sequence, simultaneity, and contingency.

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Amid the soaring oratory of Martin Luther King and the fiery rhetoric of George Wallace, scholars who worked with the Southern Regional Council during the civil rights movement spoke quietly, but with the authority of informed reason. Prominent among them was Professor Paul Gaston of the University of Virginia, who co-authored an influential analysis of school segregation, served as president of the SRC board, and authored The New South Creed....

Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers swept away the legacy of Reconstruction, from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham, from abuse and intimac...

A vivid portrait of a society undergoing the sudden confrontation of the promises, costs, and consequences of modern life, this concise, accessible edition of the award-winning Promise of the New South offers an unforgettable account of the New South--a land with one foot in the future and the other in the past.

Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies ground up the valley, consuming crops, livestock, fences and human life. Pitched battles at Gettysburg, Lynchburg and Cedar Creek punctuated a cycle of vicious attacks and reprisals in which armies burned whole towns for retribution. North of the Mason-Dixon line, free black families sent husbands and sons to fight with the US Color...

This is Volume I (to 1877) of AMERICAN PASSAGES, SECOND EDITION that examines U.S. history the way people live--in the flow of time. Rather than pursuing one topic (such as politics, culture, society, reform, the military, or economics) at a time, each chapter of the text interweaves important themes and issues into one interrelated narrative. Through this method of presentation, students can observe the many ways that events, movements, and g...

All Over the Map' makes a distinctive and valuable contribution, and it does so at a critical moment in our thinking about regionalism.' --Michael Kammen, Cornel University

America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emanicipation on Their 150th Anniversaries is co-published by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Pbk. reprint. Originally published in 2010.

This remarkable publication provides a captivating andbrilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressivehistorians. These participants in a daylong conference focusing on the extraordinaryyears leading to the Civil War provide an incredible range of historical informationthat is both educational and exciting. Here is an opportunity to draw on a livelyexchange between a substantial number of knowledgeable and entertain...

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