Oratory and rhetoric in the nineteenth-century South: a rhetoric of defense

The Missouri Compromise: the firebell in the night

Nullification: South Carolina versus the Union

Envisioning the perfect society: the defense of slavery and the South

Disrupting the Union: the house divided

Reconstruction: the bitterness continues

A new South begins to emerge: reconciliation and reunion

The South looks back: creating the Old South and the lost cause

Resolving the South's problem: defining the segregated South

Precursors of Progressivism: nineteenth-century advocates for a more humane South.