The New South: New Histories

The history of the South after the Civil War is generally called "The New South", as it narrates the rise of the new cities of the South and the changes brought by the Civil Rights Movement. But this area of study is also contested, and new work is being done on how the South has changed over time, building on the work of C. Vann Woodward.

J. WIlliam Harris has collected the best of the newer arguments, and set them around several themes-place, women, memory, and the 'long' Civil Rights Movement, to show students what the new arguments are, who is making them, and how they relate to the older version of the history of the New South.

Author: J. William Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.85h x 6.14w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780415957311

About the Author

J. William Harris is a Carpenter Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He teaches and writes on the history of the U.S. South, the Civil War era, and African American History. He advises graduate students in these areas as well as other areas of U.S. social history, and teaches an advanced course in Quantitative Methods for Historians. He studied at M.I.T. and Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1982.