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Sep 7, 2007 · In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Historian Edward L. Ayers has teamed up with mapmakers Justin Madron and Nathaniel Ayers to produce Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790–2020, an engaging collection of maps that reveals new insights about the movement of people across the US South over the course of more than two centuries. By harnessing census data as well as information about soil composition, railroads, voting returns, and disease, Ayers, Madron, and Ayers have created dozens of maps that shed ...
Reflections on the South and Southern. EA: No slavery, no Civil War: slavery posed the fundamental problem in American history. But it was not change in slavery, an institution flourishing economically and demographically, that brought on the Civil War. And slavery did not dictate a particular political strategy to defend it; for many of the ...
I Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (New York and Oxford, 1992). Page numbers of material quoted from Promise of the New South are inserted in the text. 2 C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (Baton Rouge, 1951). MR. RABINowIrz is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico.
Edward L. Ayers in the book Southern JourneyThe Migrations of the American South : 1790–2020 explores how the “migrations of the South weave throughout American history, with indigenous, enslaved, citizen, and immigrant people moving among one another” (ix). Ayers accompanies a remarkable textual history with spatial data, echo-
Jun 17, 2022 · Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists.
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Jun 1, 1993 · Edward L. Ayers. Published 1 June 1993. History. At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching.
