San Antonio College Library

Analysis of political developments and conspiracies, social changes and growth of sectionalism during the period.

Historian at the University of Georgia seeks causes of the breakdown of traditional patterns and way of life in the South before and during the Civil War.

"Historical Dictionary of the Old South presents numerous entries on prominent individuals, including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln. William Richter also explores economic, social, and religious backgrounds and how they trace the seemingly inevitable path to secession, war, and defeat. This reference also includes an introductory essay, a chronology, and a bibliography of the epoch."--Jacket....

Study of the middle class Southern whites, based on census lists of 1850 and 1860 and tax lists.

Discovery and settlement of area now included in states of Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.

"As the nineteenth century began, the United States was a country in search of definition, of national character. Like other Americans, Southerners found the process of national self-definition urgent and exhilarating. But a series of shocks -- social, economic, intellectual, and finally, political -- gave an increasingly distinctive twist to the ideology of nationalism that developed in the South. By 1860, though agreeing with the North over constitutional...

Eugene D. Genovese offers a series of engaging and highly provocative reflections on history - particularly southern history - and politics in the cultural war. Genovese criticizes the Left and the Right with equal vigor. Calling political correctness "a new version of totalitarianism," he scorns the betrayal of Black Studies programs across the country, saying that "unless the stagnation and ghettoization of Black Studies programs are arrested, we...

'Slave Country' combines political, economic, military, and social history in an elegant narrative that illuminates the perilous relation between freedom and slavery in the early United States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in an honest look at America's troubled past.