Introduction / Pippa Holloway -- "Sweet dreams of freedom" : freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina / Leslie Schwalm -- Who was John Henry? railroad construction, Southern folklore, and the birth of rock and roll / Scott Reynolds Nelson -- Gender, race, and itinerant commerce in the rural new South / Lu Ann Jones -- Becoming "White" : race, religion, and the foundations of Syrian/Lebanese ethnicity in the United States / Sarah Gualtieri -- The politics of Southern draft resistance, 1917-1918 : class, race, and conscription in the rural South / Jeanette Keith -- "Fighting whiskey and immorality" at Auburn : the politics of Southern football, 1919-1927 / Andrew Doyle -- The campaign for racial purity and the erosion of paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930 : "nominally White, biologically mixed, and legally Negro" / J. Douglas Smith -- Spirited youth or fiends incarnate : the Samarcand arson case and female adolescence in the American South / Susan Cahn -- Winning the peace : Georgia veterans and the struggle to define the political legacy of World War II / Jennifer E. Brooks -- "Nothing else matters but sex" : Cold War narratives of deviance and the search for lesbian teachers in Florida, 1959-1963 / Stacy Braukman -- "It was like all of us had been raped" : sexual violence, community mobilization, and the African American freedom struggle / Danielle L. McGuire -- "An oasis of order" : the Citadel, the 1960s, and the Vietnam antiwar movement / Alex Macaulay -- The fickle finger of phosphate : central Florida air pollution and the failure of environmental policy, 1957-1970 / Scott H. Dewey -- The politics of race and public space : desegregation, privatization, and the tax revolt in Atlanta / Kevin M. Kruse -- Globalization, latinization, and the nuevo new South / Raymond A. Mohl.
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