20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)

In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. …

1950, and the cookie-cutter houses in the slipstream of a paper mill promise new beginnings for the families moving to Heath Street. From the tragicomedy of Atom Bomb drills to the wonder of glitzy g …

A collection of newspaper editorials written by one of the South’s premier literary figures of the nineteenth century William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) was a novelist, poet, and essayist and was cons …

The Politics of Whiteness presents the first sustained analysis of white racial identity among workers in what was the South’s largest industry–the textile industry–for much of the twentieth centur …

In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally …

In the annals of American history, few years have been as transformative and tumultuous as 1861. It was a year that saw the nation split at its seams, brother set against brother, and the beginning o …

With its signature ‚DARE to keep kids off drugs‘ slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the …

In America’s Cold Warrior , James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze’s career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving i …

Letters from Mississippi offers a riveting, personal and multi-faceted narrative of the dramatic events that took place during the summer of 1964, ‚Freedom Summer, ‚ when hundreds of people came to M …

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the …