The Burden of Southern HistoryLSU Press |
Contents
| 3 | |
2 The Historical Dimension | 27 |
3 John Browns Private War | 41 |
The Deferred Commitment | 69 |
5 The Political Legacy of the First Reconstruction | 89 |
6 A Southern Critique for the Gilded Age | 109 |
7 The Populist Heritage and the Intellectual | 141 |
8 What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement | 167 |
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