This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the America

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering wo

"Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more lik