Neil R. McMillen – författare

"Remarkable for its relentless truth-telling, and the depth and thoroughness of its investigation, for the freshness of its sources, and for the shock power of its findings. Even a reader who is not unfamiliar with the sources and literature of the subject can be jolted by its impact."--C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books  "Dark Journey is a superb piece of scholarship, a book that all students of southern and African-American history will find valuable and informative."--David J. Garrow, Georgia Historical Quarterly

This in-depth account of the riseand decline of the Citizens' Councils of America details the organization'srole in the massive resistance to school desegregation in the South followingthe 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Included are a new preface andupdated bibliography."A tour de force of research andnarration. . . in highly readable style. [McMillen] . . . seems to have readeverything the historical record has to offer on the subject and to have knownexactly what to make of it. . . Himself squarely on the side of the future,he is sensitive to the anguish that prompted the hysteria of the misguided racist. . . .By any test, a masterful study." -- Journal of Southern History"Takes seriously the people whomade the movement, when ridicule and caricature would have been an easier analyticaltechnique. Solidly researched and well written. . . an intriguing story." --Augustus M. Burns, Social Studies

Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party politics, one crop agriculture, white supremacy, cultural insularity, grinding poverty , somnolent cotton towns, and languorous rural landscapes has largely passed into history. Possum Trot and Tobacco Road have been suburbanized and how have Walmarts. As the regions's boosters insist, the ""nations's number0one economic problem"" has joined the great, booming sunbelt. For good or for ill, a new sense has been visited upon nearly every southern place. What elements caused such striking change to the face of Dixie?In this volume, nine widely known specialists in the history and literature of the American South search for the origins of this sweeping regional transformation in the period of the Second World War. These original essays address a cluster of related problems of enduring fascination for all those who wish to understand the ever-changing, ever-abiding South.Offering new answers to important questions, they address the Second World War as a major watershed in southern history. Did it drive old Dixie down? Did it set in motion forces that ultimately shaped a Newer South? Did it further Americanize the South by eroding traditional patterns of though and deed that once were fiercely defended by white southerners as ""our way of life""? Was the postwar South less different, less peculiar and distinctive?

Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chronological summary of major political, economic, and diplomatic developments in American history, but it also analyzes the social, cultural, and intellectual currents of American life with attention to gender, minority, urban and industrial history.

Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chronological summary of major political, economic, and diplomatic developments in American history, but it also analyzes the social, cultural, and intellectual currents of American life with attention to gender, minority, urban and industrial history.