The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

by Wilson, Charles Reagan

• ISBN13: 9780807856918
• ISBN10: 0807856916
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-18
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 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, major economic transformations, 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 twentieth-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.

Table of Contents

General Introduction	xi
Introduction	xvii
HISTORY	1	(38)
Abolition	39	(4)
Anglo-American Antebellum Culture	43	(3)
Atlantic World	46	(3)
Battlefields, Civil War	49	(5)
Civil Rights Movement	54	(5)
Civil War	59	(7)
Cold War	66	(3)
Colonial Heritage	69	(6)
Confederate States of America	75	(6)
Emancipation	81	(4)
Foodways	85	(7)
Foreign Policy	92	(7)
Frontier Heritage	99	(7)
Globalization	106	(4)
Great Depression	110	(5)
Historians	115	(3)
Historic Preservation	118	(4)
Historic Sites	122	(4)
History, Central Themes	126	(4)
Indian Eras, Paleoindian Period	130	(3)
Indian Eras, Archaic Period	133	(4)
Indian Eras, Late Archaic Domestication of Plants and the Woodland Period	137	(4)
Indian Eras, Mississippian Period	141	(4)
Indian Eras, Contact to 1700	145	(4)
Indian Eras, Deerskin Trade, 1700-1800	149	(3)
Indian Eras, Indian Removal, 1800-1840	152	(2)
Indian Eras, Since 1840	154	(2)
Jacksonian Democracy	156	(4)
Jeffersonian Tradition	160	(5)
Korean War	165	(1)
Maritime Tradition	166	(5)
Massive Resistance	171	(5)
Mexican War	176	(3)
Migration, Black	179	(4)
Military Bases	183	(3)
Military Tradition	186	(4)
New Deal	190	(2)
New Deal Agencies	192	(2)
New Deal Cultural Programs	194	(4)
Philanthropy, Northern	198	(5)
Philanthropy, Southern	203	(4)
Populism	207	(4)
Progressivism	211	(2)
Railroads	213	(6)
Reconstruction	219	(4)
Redemption	223	(3)
Revolutionary Era	226	(4)
Secession	230	(1)
Sharecropping and Tenancy	231	(4)
Slave Culture	235	(4)
Slave Revolts	239	(3)
Slavery, Antebellum	242	(5)
Slavery, Colonial	247	(3)
Spanish-American War	250	(2)
Vietnam War	252	(5)
War of 1812	257	(2)
World War I	259	(3)
World War II	262	(5)
Beverly, Robert	267	(1)
Boone, Daniel	267	(2)
Byrd, William, II	269	(1)
Calhoun, John C.	270	(1)
Carter, Jimmy	271	(2)
Citizens' Councils	273	(1)
Clinton, Bill	274	(2)
Confederate Veterans	276	(2)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)	278	(2)
Crockett, Davy	280	(2)
Davis, Jefferson	282	(2)
Douglass, Frederick	284	(1)
Du Bois, W.E.B.	285	(2)
Evers, Medgar	287	(1)
Farm Security Administration	288	(2)
Fitzhugh, George	290	(1)
Forrest, Nathan Bedford	290	(2)
Franklin, John Hope	292	(2)
Grimke Sisters	294	(2)
Hamer, Fannie Lou	296	(2)
Hammond, James Henry	298	(1)
Jackson, Andrew	299	(1)
Jackson, Jesse	300	(2)
Jackson, Stonewall	302	(2)
Jamestown	304	(2)
Jefferson, Thomas	306	(2)
Johnson, Andrew	308	(2)
Johnson, Lyndon Baines	310	(1)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.	311	(2)
Lee, Robert E.	313	(3)
Lynch, John Roy	316	(1)
Madison, James	317	(1)
Meredith, James	318	(1)
Monroe, James	319	(2)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)	321	(1)
Olmsted, Frederick Law	322	(1)
Owsley, Frank Lawrence	323	(2)
Phillips, U.B.	325	(1)
Polk, James Knox	326	(2)
Pringle, Elizabeth Allston	328	(1)
Randolph, John	329	(1)
Segregation and Train Travel	330	(2)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (sc Lc)	332	(1)
Southern Historical Association	333	(1)
Southern Historical Society	334	(2)
Stuart, Jeb	336	(1)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)	337	(2)
Taylor, John	339	(1)
Trail of Tears	340	(1)
Turner, Nat	341	(1)
United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)	342	(2)
Voting Rights Act (1965)	344	(3)
Washington, Booker T.	347	(1)
Washington, George	348	(2)
Well-Barnett, Ida B.	350	(1)
Wilson, Woodrow	351	(2)
Woodson, Carter G.	353	(1)
Woodward, C. Vann	353	(3)
York, Alvin C.	356	(3)
Index of Contributors	359	(2)
Index	361