Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
Ch. 1: Junction
Ch. 2: Election News
Ch. 3: In Town
Ch. 4: Dry Goods
Ch. 5: Mill and Mine
Ch. 6: In Black and White
Ch. 7: Faith
Ch. 8: Out in the Country
Ch. 9: Alliances
Ch. 10: Populism
Ch. 11: Turning of the Tide
Ch. 12: Reunion and Reaction
Ch. 13: Books
Ch. 14: Voices
Ch. 15: Twentieth Century Limited
Epilogue

About the Author

Edward L. Ayers is President and Professor of History at the University of Richmond. He was named National Professor of the Year in 2003 and is a Bancroft and the Beveridge Prize winner.

Reviews

"Here, at last, is a subtle, compelling view of the late 19th-century South whose scholarship is up-to-date....In a synthesis that captures the late 19th-century South in its bewildering complexity, Ayers does get the New South right."--Washington Post Book World
"The most ambitious, comprehensive, and original survey of post-Reconstruction Southern history to appear since Woodward's Origins.... Ayers's book deepens and enriches our sense of the diversity and complexity of southern life."--George M. Fredrickson, The New York Review of Books