C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of ...

White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. The form of segregation and subjection nicknamed Jim Crow ...

Reviews the economic, political, and social evolution of the South from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War I

Discusses the relationships between the past and present and history and fiction, and looks at the role of the historian

"So soundly documented that it is hard to see how anyone, ever, will be able to improve on it."--The New York Times

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which ...