Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the
South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support …

We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American
South in part trace their origins to slavery's prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites …

A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from
Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on …

How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the
Civil War No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the …

The politics of slavery consumed the political world of the antebellum South. Although local
economic, ethnic, and religious issues tended to dominate northern antebellum politics, The …

Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth
century. This was especially the case in New Jersey, the last northern state to pass an …

In this exciting study of the communities on both sides of the Savannah River in Georgia and
South Carolina, J. William Harris explores two great ironies of American history—the South's …

Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious
Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil …

The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most
consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The regions …

The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the
drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book …