How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American S

In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that

"With a new foreword by former Alabama senator Doug Jones, the key figure in the successful prosecution of two of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombers in