Overview :With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was a historian of singular importance. A... Read More
Overview :In 1955 the Fortune magazine list of America's largest corporations included just 18 with headquarters in the Southeast. By 2002 the number ... Read More
Overview :Georgia Odyssey is a lively survey of the state's history, from its beginnings as a European colony to its current standing as an internatio... Read More
Overview :In this superb volume, James C. Cobb provides the first truly comprehensive history of the South since World War II, brilliantly capturing a... Read More
Overview :From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here i... Read More
Overview :The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The recent f... Read More
Overview :The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The recent f... Read More
Overview :From the creation of the first "New South" in the wake of Appomattox to the current struggles over the Confederate flag, Redefining Southern... Read More
Overview :From the Great Depression to the Sunbelt Era the South has pursued industrial development as the remedy for its economic ills. The mixed res... Read More
Overview :"Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditio... Read More
Overview :Green Circles in the Desert: My Work on the Kufrah-Sarir Agricultural Project in Libya by James C. Cobb"The landscape was fascinating with t... Read More
Overview :The New Deal and the South edited by James C. Cobb and Michael V. Namorato essays by Alan Brinkley, Harvard Sitkoff, Frank Freidel, Pete Dan... Read More