William Link's account of the transformation of Virginia's country schools between 1870 and 1920 fills important gaps in the history of education and the social

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly list

Lessons in Progress provides a detailed look at how progressivism transformed higher education in the New South. Orchestrated by an alliance of northern philant

From Gone with the Wind to Designing Women, images of southern females that emerge from fiction and film tend to obscure the diversity of American women from be

The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century