This book looks at disease entities (yellow fever, hookworm, pellagra) especially associated with the American South and wrestles with the relation of diseases

A Companion to the American South surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United Stat

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movem

From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portra

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