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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

A new history of the American South during Reconstruction shows how a complex blending of new ideas and old hatreds developed in the region following the Civil

In this fascinating story Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century - a combination of prog

First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, racially ha