The Promise of the New South
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The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition
By Edward L. AyersShe also counted the number of railroad stops in each Southern county in the early 1890s from Rand McNally railroad maps at the Library of Congress and at Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. Finally, she recorded the ...
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The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
By Edward L. AyersAt a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened...
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The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition
By Edward L. AyersJohn W. Petty in Durham to Richard H. Wright, Nov. 18, 1889, quoted in Robert Durden, The Dukes of Durham, 1865–1929 (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1975), 27–28; James C. Cobb, Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877–1984 (Lexington: ...
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The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition
By Edward L. AyersIn this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century.
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The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
By Edward L. AyersA new history of the American South during Reconstruction shows how a complex blending of new ideas and old hatreds developed in the region following the Civil War. By the author of Vengeance and Justice.