Introduction / W. Fitzhugh Brundage --
Part I: Procontact to the American Revolution. The American South to 1600: the ancient native South / Robbie Ethridge --
Contact, conflict, and captivity in the seventeenth-century South / James Rice --
Indians, Africans, and Europeans in the early South / Jon Sensbach --
The Revolutionary era / Michael A. McDonnell --
Part II: The long neneteenth century. The South and the new nation, 1783-1820 / Laura F. Edwards --
The age of emancipation / Martha S. Jones --
The South and the nation, 1840-1860 / Kate Masur --
The southern nations, 1860-1880 / Gregory P. Downs --
The Bourbon South / Scott Reynolds Nelson --
Party III: The twentieth century. Bearing the burden of separate but equal in the Jim Crow South / Blair L.M. Kelley --
The paradox of reforms in the early twentieth-century South / Natalie J. Ring --
The South and the state in the twentieth century / Kari Frederickson --
Southern religion and southern culture in the twentieth century / Paul Harvey --
The southern economy in the long twentieth century / Peter A. Coclanis --
The post-World War II Black freedom struggle / Kenneth R. Janken.