Thursday, January 18 – Introduction: What is the South?

Tuesday, January 23 – Plantation Slavery

Reading: Jeanette Keith, The South, volume 1, chapter 2 (on E-Res & in coursepack)

Thursday, January 25 – Around the Plantation

Papers Due: First-Hand Accounts of the Antebellum South. Read two first-hand accounts of life in the antebellum South from the following website, “Documenting the American South,” http://docsouth.unc.edu/ (assignment to be announced). The papers will provide the basis for class discussion on this day.

Tuesday, January 30 – Abolition & Sectionalism

Reading: Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion (2001), entire

Thursday, February 1 – The Wartime Confederacy

Reading: Civil War Letters from the web-based archive, “The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/personalpapers/browse/p2augusta.html. Specific assignment posted in the "Assignments" section of this website.

Read the transcript—or listen to the audio segment—from the May 2000 edition of PBS’s “The News Hour” on recent controversies over the Confederate flag. Available at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june00/flag_5-29.html

Tuesday, February 6 – War & Emancipation

Reading: James McPherson, “Who Freed the Slaves?” and Ira Berlin, “Emancipation and Its Meaning in American Life,” both in Reconstruction 2 (1994): 35-44.

Thursday, February 8 – The Reconstructed South?

Reading:
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003), pp. 216-313.

Albion Winegar Tourgee, "The Causes, Character, and Consequences of the Ku-Klux Organization," in The Invisible Empire (1880), pp. 131-145.

Keith, The South, volume 2, chapter 1

Tuesday, February 13 – MIDTERM EXAM (first hour); The “New” South, I

Thursday, February 15 – The “New” South, II

Reading:
W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk (1903), chapters 1-4, 6, 9, 13

Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901), pp. 141-151

Keith, The South, volume 2, chapter 2

Tuesday, February 20 – No class, winter break

Thursday, February 22— No class, winter break

Tuesday, February 27 – The Nadir of Race Relations

Reading:
Keith, The South, volume 2, chapter 3

Thursday, March 1 – The “Modern” South

Reading:
Selections from These Are Our Lives: As Told by the People and Written by Members of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia (1939)

Examine the website, " America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945," at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html (assignment to be announced)

Keith, The South, volume 2, chapter 4

Tuesday, March 6 – Civil Rights, I

Reading:
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968), pp. 1-214

Keith, The South, volume 2, pp. 157-172

Thursday, March 8 – Civil Rights, II

Reading:
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi, pp. 217-384

Keith, The South, volume 2, pp. 172-204

Tuesday, March 13 – FINAL EXAM