Launched in 2002 by founding editor Glenn Feldman (1962–2015), The Modern South book series publishes works of critical scholarship on the history of the modern American South.
Series Editors: Susan Youngblood Ashmore (sashmor [at] emory [dot] edu) Kari Frederickson (kari [at] ua [dot] edu) Acquisitions Editor: Claire Lewis Evans (cevans [at] uapress.ua.edu)
Recounts the extraordinary political career of Reubin Askew, governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979, under whose unorthodox leadership Florida undertook numerous successful reform initiatives
Edited by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant and Chizuru Saeki
Introduction by David M Reimers
Preface by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant and Chizuru Saeki
Contributions by Christopher A. Airriess, Daniel Bronstein, Angela Chia-Chen Chen, John Howard, John Jung, Verna M. Keith, Karen J. Leong, Wei Li, Vincent H. Melomo, Raymond A. Mohl, Greg Robinson, Chizuru Saeki and Wenxian Zhang
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817360382
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Paperback
Offers a collection of ten insightful essays that illuminate the little-known history and increasing presence of Asian immigrants in the American southeast
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
by Dan J. Puckett
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817358686
Pub Date: June 2016
Format: Paperback
Dan J. Puckett’s In the Shadow of Hitler explores and documents how Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.
Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
Edited by Gordon E. Harvey, Richard D. Starnes and Glenn Feldman
Contributions by Bailey Thompson, Richard D. Starnes, Gordon E. Harvey, Andrew M Manis, Dan T. Carter, Glenn Feldman, Brooks Blevins, John Shelton Reed, Susan Y. Ashmore, Jeffrey Frederick and DeWayne Key
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780817353209
Pub Date: August 2006
Format: Paperback
This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform.
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie illuminates the dual role of historian and public advocate in modern America. In a time when the nation’s eyes have been focused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita onto the vulnerability and dire condition of poor people in the South, the applicability of research, teaching, and activism for this voiceless element seems all the more relevant.
Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace’s career as a national figure, Stand Up for Alabama provides a detailed, comprehensive, and analytical study of Wallace’s political life that emphasizes his activities and their impact within the state of Alabama. Jeff Frederick examines the development of policy during the Wallace administrations and documents relationships with his constituents in ways that go beyond racial politics. He also analyzes the connections between Wallace’s career and Alabamians’ understanding of their history, sense of morality, and class system.
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South
Edited by Glenn Feldman
Contributions by Andrew M Manis, John White, Patricia Sullivan, John A. Salmond, Jennifer E. Brooks, Sarah Hart Brown, Raymond Arsenault, Linda Beito, Adam Fairclough, Pamela Tyler and Glenn Feldman
Foreword by Patricia Sullivan
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817351342
Pub Date: September 2004
Format: Paperback
Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954
