Incorporating the enormous amount of very sophisticated revisionist scholarship that has appeared during the past 25 years, this text provides a consistent, overall reinterpretation of all of southern history offering a less fact-filled, more narrative and more interpretative approach that expands the concept of southern history both chronologically and geographically. Its exceptionally broad and current coverage allows students to see how problems, issues, and responses of the past impact the very South they live in or read about today.