American South

Daniel Letwin is associate professor of history at Penn State University, where he specializes in labor, race relations, and the American South. He is author of The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921. His current research explores the nettlesome issue of "social equality" in African-American thought during the Jim Crow era.

• 1. Thinking about the South, John B. Boles (William P. Hobby Professor of History, Rice University); 2. Origins of the Old South: The Colonial Era, Lorri Glover (Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee); 3. The South in the Ages of the Revolution and the New Republic, Adam Rothman (Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University); 4. Slavery in the Antebellum South, Stephanie J. Shaw (Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University); 5. Class and Culture in the White South, Victoria Bynum (Professor of History, Texas State University-San Marcos); 6. The Coming of Sectional Crisis, Frank Towers (Associate Professor of History, University of Calgary); 7. The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, Anne Rubin (Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland-Baltimore County); 8. Emancipation, Reconstruction, Redemption, Kate Masur (Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University); 9. Trials of the New South, Alex Lichtenstein (Associate Professor of History, Rice University); 10. Living Jim Crow, Stephen G. N. Tuck (University Lecturer in American History, Pembroke College, University of Oxford); 11. Worlds of Southern Labor, Eric Arnesen (Professor of History, University of Illinois-Chicago); 12. Minds of the South, Paul Harvey (Professor of History, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs); 13. The New South in Transition: New Deal, World War II, and Cold War, Kari Frederickson (Associate Professor of History, University of Alabama); 14. The Civil Rights Era, Adam Fairclough (Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair of History and Culture of the United States, Leiden University); 15. The American South Today, Clive Webb (Reader in North American History, University of Sussex).

Written by leading international university scholars, this reader offers a fascinating look at the myths and realities surrounding the evolution of the South's culture and people... Anyone with an interest in American or Southern history, African American history, the history of the civil rights era, or contemporary history of the New South will benefit from this book.