History

 edited by Charles Reagan Wilson

 

“The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand what sets the South apart and how and why and to what extent America’s regions have converged.”

                                    — Jacquelyn Hall, 

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“There is nothing like a ‘new and improved’ product that is really new and improved. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture really is both. It retains the broad cultural perspective of the original, but supplements the articles with new scholarship on emerging topics. And it splits the massive original tome into a number of volumes. The new volume on history is a perfect example of both rich context and new thinking about the region. The result is a user-friendly feast of the spirit.”           

                                                  — Wayne Flint, Emeritus, Auburn University

Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the 22 volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly surveys the recorded history in the American South from the Paleo-Indian period (8000 b.c.e.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the turbulent past of the region that has witnessed frequent racial conflict, a bloody Civil War fought and lost on its soil, massive in- and out-migration, and a civil rights movement that brought fundamental change to the social order.

Charles Reagan Wilson’s overview essay examines the evolution of southern history and the way our understanding of southern culture has unfolded over time and in response to a variety of events and social forces—not just as the opposite of the North but also in the larger context of the Atlantic world. Longer thematic essays cover major eras and events, such as early settlement, slave culture, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the rise of the New South. Brief topical entries cover individuals—Including figures from the Civil War, the civil rights movement, and 20th-century politics—and organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Daughters of the Confederacy, and Citizens' Councils, among others. Together, these essays offer a sweeping reference to the rich history of the region.

Charles Reagan Wilson is the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

          • Abolition
          • Anglo-American Antebellum Culture
          • Atlantic World
          • Battlefields, Civil War
          • Civil Rights Movement
          • Civil War
          • Cold War
          • Colonial Heritage
          • Confederate States of America
          • Emancipation
          • Foodways
          • Foreign Policy
          • Frontier Heritage
          • Globalism
          • Great Depression
          • Historians
          • Historic Preservation
          • Historic Sites
          • History, Central Themes
          • Indian Eras
          • Indian Eras, Paleoindian Period
          • Indian Eras, Archaic Period
          • Indian Eras, Late Archaic Domestication of Plants and the Woodland Period
          • Indian Eras, Mississippian Period
          • Indian Eras, Contact to 1700
          • Indian Eras, Deerskin Trade, 1700 – 1800
          • Indian Eras, Indian Removal, 1800 – 1840
          • Indian Ears, Since 1840
          • Jacksonian Democracy
          • Jeffersonian Tradition
          • Korean War
          • Maritime Tradition
          • Massive Resistance
          • Mexican War
          • Migration, Black
          • Military Bases
          • Military Tradition
          • New Deal
          • New Deal Agencies
          • New Deal Cultural Programs
          • Philanthropy, Northern
          • Philanthropy, Southern
          • Populism
          • Progressivism
          • Railroads
          • Reconstruction
          • Redemption
          • Revolutionary Era
          • Secession
          • Sharecropping and Tenancy
          • Slave Culture
          • Slave Revolts
          • Slavery, Antebellum
          • Slavery, Colonial
          • Spanish-American War
          • Vietnam War
          • War of 1812
          • World War I
          • World War II
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  • Beverly, Robert
  • Boone, Daniel
  • Byrd, William II
  • Calhoun, John C.
  • Carter, Jimmy
  • Citizens’ Councils
  • Clinton, Bill
  • Confederate Veterans
  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • Crockett, Davy
  • Davis, Jefferson
  • Douglass, Frederick
  • Du Bois, W. E. B.
  • Evers, Medgar
  • Farm Security Administration
  • Fitzhugh, George
  • Forrest, Nathan Bedford
  • Franklin, John Hope
  • Grimkè Sisters
  • Hamer, Fannie Lou
  • Hammond, James Henry
  • Jackson, Andrew
  • Jackson, Jesse
  • Jackson, Stonewall
  • Jamestown
  • Jefferson, Thomas
  • Johnson, Andrew
  • Johnson, Lyndon B.
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr.
  • Lee, Robert E.
  • Lynch, John Roy
  • Madison, James
  • Meredith, James
  • Monroe, James
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • Olmstead, Frederick Law
  • Owsley, Frank
  • Phillips, U. B.
  • Polk, James Knox
  • Pringle, Elizabeth Allston
  • Randolph, John
  • Segregation and Train Travel
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • Southern Historical Association
  • Southern Historical Society
  • Stuart, Jeb
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • Taylor, John
  • Trail of Tears
  • Turner, Nat
  • United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)
  • Voting Rights Act (1965)
  • Washington, Booker T.
  • Washington, George
  • Well-Barnett, Ida B.
  • Wilson, Woodrow
  • Woodson, Carter G.
  • Woodward, C. Vann
  • York, Alvin C.