THEDA PERDUE is a professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She is the author or editor of eight books, including The Cherokee and Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866.

Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 is a model for how to read one historical event and find the deep meaning about the larger society in which it occurred. This book reveals the telling authority of racial tension in American life in the 1890s in three taut chapters and enriches our understanding of an event we've all heard about but, in fact, know relatively little about.

THEDA PERDUE is a professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She is the author or editor of eight books, including The Cherokee and Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866.

Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 is a model for how to read one historical event and find the deep meaning about the larger society in which it occurred. This book reveals the telling authority of racial tension in American life in the 1890s in three taut chapters and enriches our understanding of an event we've all heard about but, in fact, know relatively little about.

THEDA PERDUE is a professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She is the author or editor of eight books, including The Cherokee and Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866.

Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 is a model for how to read one historical event and find the deep meaning about the larger society in which it occurred. This book reveals the telling authority of racial tension in American life in the 1890s in three taut chapters and enriches our understanding of an event we've all heard about but, in fact, know relatively little about.