History [[electronic resource] /] / Charles Reagan Wilson, volume editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789450803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• ISBN: 1-4696-1655-6; 1-4696-1656-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; ; v. 3
• Altri autori (Persone): WilsonCharles Reagan
• Disciplina: 975
• Soggetti: Popular culture - Southern States; Southern States History Encyclopedias
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Abolition -- Anglo-American antebellum culture -- Atlantic world -- Battlefields, Civil War -- Civil Rights movement -- Civil War -- Cold War -- Colonial heritage -- Confederate States of America -- Emancipation -- Foodways -- Foreign policy -- Frontier heritage -- Globalization -- Great Depression -- Historians -- Historic preservation -- Historic sites -- History, central themes -- Indian eras, Paleoindian Period -- Indian eras, Archaic Period -- Indian eras, late archaic domestication of plants and the Woodland Period -- Indian eras, Mississippian Period -- Indian eras, contact to 1700 -- Indian eras, deerskin trade, 1700-1800 -- Indian eras, Indian removal, 1800-1840 -- Indian eras, since 1840 -- Jacksonian democracy -- Jeffersonian tradition -- Korean War -- Maritime tradition -- Massive resistance -- Mexican War -- Migration, Black -- Military bases -- Military tradition -- New Deal -- New Deal agencies -- New Deal cultural programs -- Philanthropy, Northern -- Philanthropy, Southern -- Populism -- Progressivism -- Railroads -- Reconstruction -- Redemption -- Revolutionary era -- Secession -- Sharecropping and tenancy -- Slave culture -- Slave revolts -- Slavery, antebellum -- Slavery, colonial -- Spanish-American War -- Vietnam War -- War of 1812 -- World War I -- World War II -- Beverly, Robert -- Boone, Daniel -- Byrd, William, II -- Calhoun, John C. -- Carter, Jimmy -- Citizens' ; Councils -- Clinton, Bill -- Confederate veterans -- Congress of racial equality (CORE) -- Crockett, Davy -- Davis, Jefferson -- Douglass, Frederick -- Du Bois, W.E.B. -- Evers, Medgar -- Farm Security Administration -- Fitzhugh, George -- Forrest, Nathan Bedford -- Franklin, John Hope -- Grimké́ Sisters -- Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Hammond, James Henry -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jackson, Jesse -- Jackson, Stonewall -- Jamestown -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Johnson, Andrew -- Johnson, Lyndon Baines -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Lee, Robert E. -- Lynch, John Roy -- Madison, James -- Meredith, James -- Monroe, James -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- Olmsted, Frederick Law -- Owsley, Frank Lawrence -- Philips, U.B. -- Polk, James Knox -- Pringle, Elizabeth Allston -- Randolph, John -- Segregation and train travel -- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -- Southern Historical Association -- Southern Historical Society -- Stuart, Jeb -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) -- Taylor, John -- Trail of Tears -- Turner, Nat -- United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) -- Voting Rights Act (1965) -- Washington, Booker T. -- Washington, George -- Well-Barnett, Ida B. -- Wilson, Woodrow -- Woodson, Carter G. -- Woodward, C. Vann -- York, Alvin C.
• Sommario/riassunto: Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C.E.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the turbulent past of the region that has witnessed frequent racial conflict, a bloody Civil War fought and lost on its soil, massive in- and out-migration, major economic transformations, and a civil rights movement that brought fundamental change to the social order. Charles Reagan Wilson's overview essay examines the evolution of southern history and the way our understanding of southern culture has unfolded over time and in response to a variety of events and social forces--not just as the opposite of the North but also in the larger context of the Atlantic World. Longer thematic essays cover major eras and events, such as early settlement, slave culture, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the rise of the New South. Brief topical entries cover individuals--including figures from the Civil War, the civil rights movement, and twentieth-century politics--and organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Daughters of the Confederacy, and Citizens' Councils, among others. Together, these essays offer a sweeping reference to the rich history of the region.