Disasters and Democracy addresses the political response to natural disasters, focusing specifically on the changing role of the federal government from distant observer to immediate responder and principal financier of disaster costs.

Pentecostalism came to the South following the post–Civil War holiness revival, a northern-born crusade that emphasized sinlessness and religious empowerment.

This richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials - from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain - and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a ...

This book brings together new scholarship on black social movements outside the South to rethink the civil rights narrative and the place of race in recent history.

Allison Graham examines the ways in which the media, particularly television and film, presented Southerners during the civil rights revolution.

The essays in this volume suggest a few ways to reconsider the impact of the Civil War on Pennsylvania and the way its memory remains alive even today.

In this volume, twelve authors take a challenging new look at the South.

Crespino helps define a recent arc of scholarship dedicated to understanding, and not simply vilifying, civil-rights opponents. This is an important book and Mississippi is the right place to anchor this story.

What did the Civil War mean to Virginia-and what did Virginia mean to the Civil War?