InThe American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of America. Cooper and Terrill show how the resulting tension has often propelled section and nation toward collision. In supporting their thesis, the authors draw on the tremendous amount of profoundly new scholarship in Southern history. Each volume includes a substantial bibliographical essaycompletely updated for this editionwhich provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. This volume contains updated chapters, and tables.

William J. Cooper, Jr. is Boyd professor of History at Louisiana State University.Thomas E. Terrill is emeritus professor of History at the University of South Carolina.Christopher Childers is assistant professor of History at Pittsburg State University.

PrefacePrologue: The Enduring SouthList of MapsChapter 16. After the WarReconstruction / Presidential Reconstruction / Southern Defiance: Unconquered Rebels? / The Republicans and Johnsons Reconstruction Policies / The 1866 Election and the Fourteenth Amendment / Reconstruction: Myth and Reality / The Emergence of the One-Party South / The Compromise of 1877Chapter 17. Economic Reconstruction, 18651880Landlords, Sharecroppers, and Tenants / Blacks and the Limits to Freedom / Furnish, Crop Liens, and Country Merchants / Money and Interest / Puppet Monarch / Southern Railways / Bankruptcy, Consolidation, and Regulation / Cities, Towns, and IndustryChapter 18. The Redeemers and the New South, 18651890The New South Creed / The Lost Cause / A Woman of the New South / Political Independents Challenge the Redeemers / Republicans and Democrats in Virginia / The Solid South / Southern Democrats and Blacks / The Solid South and National Politics / The Blair Bill / The Legacy of the RedeemersChapter 19. A Different South Emerges: Rails, Mills, and TownsRailroad Empires / Industry in the New South / Forest Products / Metals and Minerals / Processed Farm Products / Tobacco Manufacturing / Cotton Manufacturing / Urbanization in the New South / A Different South: At the Turn of the CenturyChapter 20. The South and the Crisis of the 1890sThe Depression of the 1890s / Prelude to the Alliance Movement / The Alliance Movement: Texas Roots / The Alliance in Politics / The Mississippi Plan / The Populists / Political Upheaval / The Populist Legacy / Disfranchisement: Jim Crow and Southern Politics / The Foundation ResecuredChapter 21. Jim Crow: Black and White SouthThe Atlanta Compromise / Jim Crow / Why Jim Crow? / The Black World / Industrial Workers in the New South / Unions and Unionization in the New South / New Divisions among Protestants / Political DemagoguesChapter 22. Southern ProgressivesFour Southern Progressives / Progressivism, Southern Style / The Roots of Southern Progressivism / Educational Reform / Health Reforms / Child Labor Reform / Southern Ladies / Prohibition: The Noble ExperimentChapter 23. Restoration and Exile, 19121929The Wilson Administration / A Disrupted Society: The South during World War I / Good Times: The Southern Economy and World War I / Southern Appalachia / The Town World / Business Progressivism and State Government / The Ku Klux Klan Reborn / The Black World / The World of the Farm / The End of the DecadeChapter 24. Religion and Culture in the New SouthThe Scopes Trial / The Religious Heritage of the Twentieth-Century South / Culture in the Postbellum South / The War Within / The Southern Literary Renaissance / Southern Regionalism in the 1920s and 1930s /Gone with the WindMap Essay: The Changing South: People and CottonChapter 25. The Emergence of the Modern South, 19301945The Depression and the South / In the Democratic Majority / The New Deal and Southern Agriculture / The New Deal and Southern Industry / Cracks in the Solid South / Jim Crow: An Uncertain Future / World War IIChapter 26. The End of Jim Crow: The Civil Rights RevolutionJim Crow and the Truman Administration / The Supreme Court and Separate but Equal /Brown: Massive Resistance, Calculated Evasion / Public School Desegregation: Little Rock and New Orleans / The Civil Rights Movement / The Kennedy Administration and Civil Rights / Birmingham and the March on Washington / The Voting Rights Act / The Evening News and History / Public School Desegregation and the End of Freedom of ChoiceChapter 27. The Modern SouthWallace and National Politics / The Rise of the Southern Republicans / The Collapse of the Solid South / The Republican Party Secures Its Place in Dixie / The Transformation of the Southern Democrats / The Sunbelt / Cotton Fields No More / The Metropolitan SouthChapter 28. The Sunbelt South: No Eden in DixieThe Vanishing South? / Two Religions: North and South? / Other Faiths: Southern Literature, Football, and Elvis / Persistent Divisions: Black and WhiteBiographiesBibliographical EssayIndexAbout the Authors