A companion to the American South

 Content: The first Southerners : Indians of the early south --
 Spanish and French exploration and colonization --
 The English colonial south to 1750 --
 The origins of slavery, 1619-1808 --
 Understanding the south in the Revolutionary era, 1750-1789 --
 The south in the new nation, 1790-1824 --
 The plantation economy --
 The maturation of slave society and culture --
 Plain folk yeomanry in the antebellum south --
 Religion in the pre-Civil War south --
 Politics in the antebellum south --
 Women in the old south --
 Intellectual and cultural history of the old south --
 Sectionalism and the secession crisis --
 The Civil War : military and political aspects along with social, religious, gender, and slave perspectives --
 Emancipation and its consequences --
 Political reconstruction, 1865-1877 --
 Economic consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction --
 Southern politics in the age of populism and progressivism : a historiographical essay --
 The rise of Jim Crow, 1880-1920 --
 Women in the post-Civil War south --
 The discovery of Appalachia : regional revisionism as scholarly renaissance --
 Religion in the American south since the Civil War --
 Southern environmental history --
 Labor relations in the industrializing south --
 The impact of the New Deal and World War II on the south --
 The civil rights movement --
 The rise of the sunbelt : urbanization and industrialization --
 The transformation of southern politics, 1954 to the present.