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Title Reconstructing Appalachia : the Civil War's aftermath / edited by Andrew L. Slap ; introduction by Gordon B. McKinney.

Publication Info. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2010]
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.8 R24    Check Shelf
Description ix, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series New directions in southern history.
New directions in southern history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A new frontier : historians, Appalachian history, and the aftermath of the Civil War / Andrew L. Slap -- Reconstruction-era violence in north Georgia : the Mossy Creek Ku Klux Klan's defense of local autonomy / Keith S. Hébert -- UnReconstructed Appalachia : the persistence of war in Appalachia / T.R.C. Hutton -- "The other war was but the beginning" : the politics of loyalty in western North Carolina, 1865-1867 / Steven E. Nash -- "Resistless uprising"? : Thomas Dixon's uncle and western North Carolinians as Klansmen and statesmen / Paul Yandle -- Reconstructing race : Parson Brownlow and the rhetoric of race in postwar east Tennessee / Kyle Osborn -- Gathering Georgians to Zion : John Hamilton Morgan's 1876 mission to Georgia / Mary Ella Engel -- "Neither war nor peace" : West Virginia's reconstruction experience / Randall S. Gooden -- A house redivided : from sectionalism to political economy in West Virginia / Ken Fones-Wolf -- "Grudges and loyalties die so slowly" : contested memories of the Civil War in Pennsylvania's Appalachia / Robert M. Sandow -- The lost cause that wasn't : east Tennessee and the myth of unionist Appalachia / Tom Lee -- "A Northern wedge thrust into the heart of the Confederacy" : explaining Civil War loyalties in the age of Appalachian discovery, 1900-1921 / John C. Inscoe -- Civil War memory in eastern Kentucky is "predominately white" : the Confederate flag in unionist Appalachia / Anne E. Marshall.
Subject Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Added Author Slap, Andrew L.
ISBN 9780813125817 hardback alkaline paper
0813125812 hardback alkaline paper
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