Tom E. Terrill

William James Cooper (Jr.)

Christopher Childers

In the Fifth Edition of the American South: A History, William J. Cooper Jr., Thomas E. Terrill, and Christopher Childers update their classic history of the American South and demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. This edition offers: the chapter on Reconstruction in both volumes to offer greater classroom flexibility, a fully revised bibliographic essay, providing students with access to the latest scholarship. a nuanced history of the South through Reconstruction, avoiding both hagiography and demonization, allowing students to make an informed judgment about the Sooth's legacy. Book jacket.

A History

The American South

James M. McPherson

Co-edited by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, a collection of essays by fourteen distinguished historians discusses the ongoing effort to chronicle the Civil War and trends in Civil War scholarship. History Alt. UP.

The Quest to Understand

Writing the Civil War

Looks at the growth of the South from the English background of the 1607 settlement of Jamestown, to the political disintegration of the "solid South," to the economic transformation of the Sunbelt in the 1970s and 1980s

William James Cooper (Jr.)

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