Focusing on the cultural conflicts between social reformers and southern communities, William Link presents an important reinterpretation of the origins and imp

This is the most comprehensive synthesis of the political history of the American South during the Progressive Era. Originally published in 1983, this work repr

Celeste Parrish and Educational Reform in the Progressive-Era South follows a Civil War orphan’s transformation from a Southside Virginia public school teache

In this comprehensive, unflinching account, David W. Southern persuasively argues that race was the primary blind spot of the Progressive Movement. Based on the

In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not