20ème siècle (jusqu’en 1945)

Historians have thoroughly documented the vast devastation of the Civil War. In the attention they have paid to aspects of that destruction, however, one of the most obvious ramifications appears rou …

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Who are the dom …

Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America’s ‘first line of defense’ against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the Ame …

Through his many books on the history of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public’s conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists. In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets American anarchi …

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 …

First published by the University of South Carolina in 1952, Ersatz in the Confederacy remains the definitive study of the South’s desperate struggle to overcome critical shortages of food, medicine, …

Abraham Lincoln recognized that the US Civil War would be a ‘hard war’. Secession and slavery represented abiding beliefs central to Southern life. Overcoming them would require a war of attrition re …

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 …

The Civil War is the greatest tragedy ever experienced by our nation. The repercussions of the war are still alive today, almost 160 years after the final shots were fired in April 1865. Many books h …

Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral …