'My dear, I don't give a damn.'Margaret Mitchell's page-turning, sweeping American epic has
been a classic for over eighty years. Beloved and thought by many to be the greatest of the …

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the
slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of …

How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the
American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores …

Every white southerner understood what keeping African Americans" down" meant and what
it did not mean. It did not mean going to court; it did not mean relying on the law. It meant …

Though black and white women have long been associated with the heart of southern
culture, their relationships with each other in the context of contemporary southern fiction …

A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the
slaveholding South Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century …

An examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women
during the antebellum period In Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the …

Recent literature on the history of sexuality in America both confirms and complicates the
interpretive framework set out in Intimate Matters twenty-five years ago. New studies reveal …

A critical examination of the Woman's Missionary Union and how it shaped the views of
Southern Baptist women The Woman's Missionary Union (WMU), founded in 1888, carved …