At the suggestion of one of my internet friends, independent researcher Ralph Poore, I am listing here the table of contents from my forthcoming book, The Long Shadow of the Civil War.
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
by Victoria E. Bynum
Introduction: Kinship, Community, and Place
PART ONE: Home Front
chapter one: Guerrilla Wars: Plain Folk Resistance to the Confederacy
chapter two: Occupied at Home: Women Confront Confederate Forces in North Carolina’s Quaker Belt
PART TWO: Reconstruction and Beyond
chapter three: Disordered Communities: Freed People, Poor Whites, and “Mixed Blood” Families in Reconstruction North Carolina
chapter four: Fighting a Losing Battle: Newt Knight versus the U.S. Court of Claims, 1870-1900
PART THREE: Legacies
chapter five: Civil War Unionists as New South Radicals: Mississippi and Texas, 1865-1920
chapter six: Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Gender in Jim Crow Mississippi: The Women of the Knight Family
Epilogue: Fathers and Sons
Can’t wait for this to hit the shelf!
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Thank you, Teresa! It’s scheduled for release on February 18, 2010. (I’m working on the index as we speak.)
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I work at the Leland Library now, as Assistant Librarian and i can’t wait to request your new book. Have you read the book “Help” yet and what do you think of it.
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Janet, I sure appreciate your plans to request a copy of Long Shadow of the Civil War for your library! No, I haven’t read the book, “Help”; can you tell me more about it?
Vikki
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