The Routledge historical atlas of the American South

This book illuminates singular aspects of Southern society and culture and provides justification for thinking about the South as a region unto itself. It also shows that the South in fact consists of many shifting social and cultural sub-regions.

• Foreword p. 8
• Introduction p. 10
• Part I The Nascent South p. 14
• The Mound Builders p. 16
• Indians and the Arrival of Europeans p. 18
• The Seeds of the South p. 20
• Importing Black America p. 22
• From Africans to African-Americans p. 24
• Diversity in Early America p. 26
• The Great Awakenings p. 28
• The American Revolution in the South p. 32
• The War of 1812 p. 34
• Part II The Antebellum South p. 36
• The Trail of Tears p. 38
• The Peculiar Institution p. 40
• Cotton Becomes King p. 42
• Nat Turner and Antebellum Slave Resistance p. 44
• Underground Railroad and Paths to Freedom p. 46
• The Battle over the West p. 48
• Bleeding Kansas and John Brown p. 52
• Democratic Divisions p. 54
• Part III The Confederate South p. 58
• The Secession Conventions p. 62
• An Unequal Divide p. 64
• Major Battles of the Civil War p. 68
• Bull Run p. 72
• Battle of the Crater p. 74
• Yankees in the South p. 76
• "The Hard Hand of War" p. 78
• The South Surrenders p. 82
• From Slavery to Freedom p. 84
• Part IV The New South p. 86
• Reconstruction p. 88
• Industrializing Dixie p. 90
• The Urbanization of the Agrarian South p. 94
• Cotton Culture and Sharecropping p. 96
• The Praying South p. 98
• Lynching and the New Racial Order p. 100
• The Great Migration p. 102
• Southern Conservatism and the Monkey Trial p. 104
• The Progressive Movement p. 108
• Part V The Modern South p. 112
• The Tennessee Valley Authority p. 114
• Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Buses p. 116
• The Freedom Rides p. 118
• Voting Rights p. 120
• From Rust Belt to Sun Belt p. 122
• The Demise of the Solid South p. 124
• Robert E. Lee and the Modern Lost Cause p. 126
• The End of the South? p. 128
• "Dixie on my Mind" p. 132
• Chronology p. 134
• Further Reading p. 136
• Index p. 138
• Acknowledgments p. 144