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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Why Study the South? | |
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| Separating History from Legend | |
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| Themes | |
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| Race, Class, and Gender | |
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| Religion | |
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| Politics and Government: The Defense of Liberty | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Did Liberty Grow from Slavery? | |
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| Origins | |
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| Jamestown | |
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| The Indians of the Chesapeake | |
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| Colonization of the Chesapeake | |
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| Tobacco, Labor, and Lives | |
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| Government, Power, and Rebellion | |
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| The Southern Social Contract | |
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| The Colonial Slave Trade and the South | |
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| New Settlements, New People | |
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| The Carolinas and Georgia | |
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| The Backcountry | |
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| The Scotch-Irish | |
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| The Latin South | |
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| Cajuns and Creoles | |
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| Maturing of Anglo-American Colonial Society | |
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| Revolutions | |
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| Talking Liberty, Talking Slavery | |
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| The War in the South | |
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| The South in the New Nation | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Old South, 1790-1860 | |
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| Becoming Southern: The Emergence of the Old South, 1790s-1830s | |
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| Westward Migration | |
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| Louisiana | |
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| On the Road | |
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| Indian Removal | |
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| The Old South in Full Flower, 1830-1860 | |
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| A White Man's Country | |
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| Honor | |
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| Life on the Plantation | |
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| The Plantation as a Business | |
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| The Plantation Family | |
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| The Plantation Mistress | |
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| White Sexuality and Slavery | |
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| The Enslaved | |
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| Housing, Clothing, Diet | |
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| Creating Families in Slavery | |
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| Resistance and Survival | |
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| Resisters and Runaways | |
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| The Interstate Slave Trade | |
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| Free People of Color | |
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| Plain Folk: The Non-Slaveholding Majority | |
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| Freeholders | |
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| Plain Folk and Slavery | |
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| The Ties that Bind: Southern Religion | |
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| From Preaching Liberty to Preaching Order | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing | |
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| Defending "Our Way of Life": Southern Politics to 1860 | |
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| Defending an Agrarian Republic: Jefferson, Jackson, and Calhoun | |
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| Jefferson and Agrarianism | |
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| Economic Policy and the Emergence of Sectionalism | |
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| The Missouri Compromise | |
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| The Rise of Andrew Jackson | |
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| Calhoun and Nullification | |
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| From Necessary Evil to Positive Good: The Proslavery Defense | |
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| The Emergence of Abolitionism | |
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| The Proslavery Defense | |
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| The Road to War | |
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| The Constitution and the Territories | |
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| The Mexican War | |
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| The Failure of Politics | |
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| Kansas | |
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| The Impact of Dred Scott | |
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| John Brown and the Crisis of Fear | |
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| Decision for War | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| War and Defeat, 1861-1865 | |
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| Facing War | |
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| Raising an Army | |
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| Strategy, Tactics, Logistics | |
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| The War at Sea | |
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| The Course of War, 1861-1864 | |
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| Conscription, Liberty, and States' Rights | |
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| General Lee | |
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| Emancipation and the War | |
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| Soldiers of the Cross | |
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| High Tide of the Confederacy | |
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| Vicksburg to Chattanooga | |
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| The Confederate Home Front | |
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| Southern Unionists | |
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| Class and Gender on the Home Front | |
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| Habits of Rebellion | |
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| The Year of Jubilee | |
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| The Long Road Down, 1864-1865 | |
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| Lee vs. Grant in Virginia | |
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| Total War | |
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| The Last Days | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing | |
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| Reconstruction, 1862-1877 | |
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| Reconstruction as National Policy | |
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| Reconstruction during the War | |
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| The Freedmen's Bureau | |
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| Johnson, Congress, and Reconstruction | |
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| The Republicans and Black Suffrage | |
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| Good Old Rebels | |
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| Johnson vs. Congress | |
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| The Fourteenth Amendment | |
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| Congressional Reconstruction | |
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| Reconstruction in the South | |
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| Reconstruction State Governments | |
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| Reconstruction Southern Society | |
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| The End of Reconstruction | |
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| The Rise of the Redeemers | |
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| The Compromise of 1877 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |