The eleven ex-Confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region's dual personality, how it came into being, and the purposes and interests it served is examined here, as well as its central role in the politics and "culture wars" flowing from the transformative Civil Rights Movement and the other social justice movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
The essays on this theme include a penetrating explication of C. Vann Woodward's masterpiece, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, which is explicitly...
The eleven ex-Confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region's dual...
Library of Alabama Classics Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association In this excellent study of Alabama politics, Hackney deftly analyzes the leadership, following, and essential character of Populism and Progressivism during the period from 1890 to 1910. The work is exceptionally well written; it deals with the personal, social, and political intricacies involved; and it combines traditional and quantitative techniques with a clarity and imagination that should serve as a spur and a model for many future studies. Annals of the American Academy of...
Library of Alabama Classics Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association In this excellent study of Alabama poli...
