Product Description: Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed...read more

Product Description: Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it...read more

Product Description: The eleven essays in this collection explore the variety of ways in which whites and blacks in Georgia interacted from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the civil rights movement. They reveal the extent to which racial matters infused politics, religion, education, gender relationships, kinship structure, and community dynamics...read more

Product Description: Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities...read more

A comprehensive overview of Georgia's rich literary heritage features biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present, as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature, with entries that discuss each author's life and work, contributions to Georgia history and culture, and place in regional and national literature. Original.

Product Description: In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life -- nationalism and identity, family and gender, battlefront and home front, race, and postwar legacies and memories...read more

Product Description: African Americans have had a profound impact on the economy, culture, and social landscape of southern Appalachia but only after a surge of study in the last two decades have their contributions been recognized by white culture. Appalachians and Race brings together 18 essays on the black experience in the mountain South in the nineteenth century...read more

Product Description: Exploring family and community dynamics, Enemies of the Country profiles men and women of the Confederate states who, in addition to the wartime burdens endured by most southerners, had to cope with being a detested minority.With one exception, these featured individuals were white, but they otherwise represent a wide spectrum of the southern citizenry...read more

Product Description: This dual-platform CD-ROM contains all new exercises for practicing the vocabulary and grammar for each chapter of the textbook as well as video, reading, culture and writing activities.

Product Description: These 11 essays explore the ways in which whites and blacks in Georgia interacted from the end of the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. The essays reveal the extent to which racial matters infused politics, religion, education, gender relationships, kinship structures and community dynamics...read more

Product Description: One of the most controversial historians of the American South, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, has been the object of intense scholarly interest for nearly seventy-five years. His contributions to our knowledge of the social and economic aspects of slavery--along with his well-known racial and class biases--have been discussed extensively...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)