Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Gathering Storm (1787-1860) -- Debate over Slavery at the Constitutional Convention, August 21-22, 1787 -- John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), "On Abolition Petitions," U.S. Senate, February 6, 1837 -- Alabama Platform, February 14-15, 1848 -- John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), "Address to the Southern People," U.S. Senate, January 22, 1849 -- James H. Thornwell (1812-62), The Rights and the Duties of the Masters, May 26, 1850 -- Resolves of the Southern Convention at Nashville, June 10-11, 1850 -- Journal, Resolution, and Ordinance, State Convention of South Carolina, April 26-30, 1852 -- Two Images of Slavery: Confederate 100 Bill (1862) and Obelisk, Fort Mill, South Carolina (1895) -- Samuel A. Cartwright (1793-1863), "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race," 1851 -- Slave Jail, Alexandria, c. 1859 -- Jefferson Davis (1808-89), "Endorsement" -- T. L. Clingman (1812-97), "Endorsement" -- and J. H. Van Evrie (1814-96), "Negroes and Negro 'Slavery,' The First an Inferior Race-The Latter, Its Normal Condition," 1853 -- George Fitzhugh (1806-81), Cannibals All! Or Slaves Without Masters, 1857 -- Alexander H. Stephens (1812-83), "Speech on the Bill to Admit Kansas as a State under the Topeka Constitution," House of Representatives, June 28, 1856 -- Jefferson Davis (1808-89), Speech at State Fair, Augusta, Maine, September 29, 1858 -- John B. Gordon (1832-1904), "An Address Delivered Before the Thalian & Phi Delta Societies of Oglethorpe University," June 18, 1860 -- CHAPTER 2 Secession (1859-1861) -- South Carolina General Assembly, "Resolutions for a Southern Convention," December 22, 1859 -- Jefferson Davis, Congressional Resolutions on "Relations of States," U.S. Senate, March 1, 1860 -- Official Proceedings of the Democratic Convention, April 28-May 1, 1860.

Benjamin Palmer (1818-1902), "Thanksgiving Sermon," November 29, 1860 -- Christiana Banner, 1994 (1911, 1851) -- South Carolina Secession Convention, "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union," December 24, 1860 -- South Carolina Secession Convention, "The Address of the People of South Carolina, Assembled in Convention, To the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States 1861," December 24, 1860 -- Mississippi Secession Convention, "A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union," January 26, 1861 -- Florida Secession Convention, "Cause for Secession," January 7, 1861 -- Alabama Secession Convention, "Resolution of Resistance," January 7, 1861, and "Ordinance of Secession," January 11, 1861 -- Georgia Committee of Seventeen, "Report on Causes for Secession," January 29, 1861 -- Texas Secession Convention, "A Declaration of the Causes Which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union," February 2, 1861 -- George Williamson (1829-82), Louisiana Secession Commissioner, "Letter to President and Gentlemen of the Convention of the People of Texas," February 11, 1861 -- Henry L. Benning (1814-75), "Address Delivered Before the Virginia State Convention," February 18, 1861 -- Virginia Secession Convention, "Resolutions," March 28-April 5, 1861 -- Arkansas Secession Convention, "Resolutions," March 11, 1861 -- Isham Harris (1818-97), Governor of Tennessee, "Message to the Legislature," January 7, 1861 -- John W. Ellis (1820-61), Governor of North Carolina, "Proclamation," April 17, 1861 -- CHAPTER 3 Civil War (1861-1865) -- Jefferson Davis (1808-89), "Farewell to the U.S. Senate," January 21, 1861.

Jefferson Davis (1808-89), "Message to the Confederate Congress about Ratification of the Constitution," April 29, 1861 -- The Constitution of the Confederate States of America, March 11, 1861 -- Alexander H. Stephens (1812-83), "African Slavery: The Corner-Stone of the Southern Confederacy," March 22, 1861 -- Governor H. M. Rector (1816-99), Letter to Colonel Sam Leslie, November 28, 1861 -- Three National Flags of the Confederacy, 1861, 1863, 1865 -- William T. Thompson (1812-82), "Proposed Designs for the 2nd National Confederate Flag," April-May 1863 -- Jefferson Davis (1808-89), "Message to the Confederate Congress," January 12, 1863 -- Confederate Congress, "Response of the Confederate Congress to Message from Jefferson Davis on the Emancipation Proclamation," May 1, 1863 -- Richard Taylor (1826-79), Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-93), "Treatment of African American Prisoners of War," June 8, 13, 16, 1863 -- Fort Pillow Massacre, April 12, 1864 -- John R. Eakin (1822-55), "The Slave Soldiers," June 8, 1864 -- Henry Hotze (1833-87), "The Negro's Place in Nature," December 10, 1863 -- Robert E. Lee (1807-70), Letter to Hon. Andrew Hunter, January 11, 1865 -- Macon Telegraph, Editorial Opposing Enlistment of African Americans, January 6, 1865 -- Howell Cobb (1815-68), Letter to James A. Seddon, Secretary of War, January 8, 1865 -- J. H. Stringfellow (1819-1905), Letter to President Jefferson Davis, February 8, 1865 -- General Orders, No. 14, An Act to Increase the Military Force of the Confederate States, approved March 13, 1865 -- CHAPTER 4 Reconstruction and Fusion (1866-1890) -- Edmund Rhett Jr., "Letter to Armistead Burt," October 14, 1865 -- Mississippi's Black Code, November 24-29, 1865 -- Robert E. Lee (1807-70), Testimony before the Congressional Joint Committee on Reconstruction, February 17, 1866.

Rushmore G. Horton (1826-68), "A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in the United States from 1861 to 1865," 1867 -- Jack Kershaw (1913- ), Statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1998 -- Edward A. Pollard (1831-72), "The Lost Cause Regained," 1868 -- Alexander H. Stephens (1812-83), "Conclusion," A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, 1868 -- Robert E. Lee (1807-70), "The White Sulphur Manifesto," August 26, 1868 -- John B. Gordon (1832-1904), "To the Colored People," address in Charleston, South Carolina, September 11, 1868 -- Ku Klux Klan Postcard, c. 1937 -- R. L. Dabney (1820-98), "Women's Rights Women," 1871 -- Jubal A. Early (1816-94), "Speech to the Southern Historical Society," August 14, 1873 -- Jefferson Davis (1808-89), "Slavery Not the Cause, but an Incident," 1881 -- CHAPTER 5 The Nadir of Race Relations, 1890-1940 -- J. L. M. Curry (1825-1903), The Southern States of the American Union, 1895 -- Stephen D. Lee (1833-1908), "The Negro Problem," 1899 -- White Mob Burns Black Businesses in Wilmington, North Carolina, November 10, 1898 -- S. A. Cunningham (1843-1913), "M'Kinley, Roosevelt, and the Negro," January 1903 -- S. A. Cunningham, "Problem of the Negroes," January 1907 -- John Sharp Williams (1854-1932), "Issues of the War Discussed," November 1904 -- John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916), Letter to Sam Chapman, July 4, 1907 -- E. H. Hinton (1852-1916), "The Negro and the South: Review of Race Relationships and Conditions," August 1907 -- South Carolina Confederate Women's Monument, 1912 -- C. E. Workman, "Reconstruction Days in South Carolina," July 1921 -- Mildred Rutherford (1852-1928), "The War Was Not a Civil War," January 1923 -- Susan Lawrence Davis (1862-1939), "The First Convention," 1924 -- John E. Rankin (1882-1960), "Forrest at Brice's Cross Roads," August 1925 -- CHAPTER 6 The Civil Rights Era, 1940-.

Richard Weaver (1910-63), Selections from The Southern Tradition at Bay, 1943 -- M. Clifford Harrison (1893-1967), "The Southern Confederacy-Dead or Alive?" December 1947 -- Dixiecrat Convention, Birmingham, Alabama, July 1848 -- Birmingham Post Staff Writers, Untitled Sidebars about the Dixiecrat Convention, July 17, 1948 -- Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), "Address to the State Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Winthrop College, South Carolina," October 17, 1957 -- Sumter L. Lowry (1893-1985), "The Federal Government and Our Constitutional Rights," Address to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, October 15, 1958 -- The Citizens' Council Logo, March 1957 -- "His Example Inspires Our Efforts of Today," The Citizens' Council, June 1956 -- W. E. Rose, "The Warning of Robert E. Lee," The Citizens' Council, February 1957 -- The Citizens' Councils, "Old Censored Joe," November 1957 -- The Citizens' Councils, "Mau Mau Party," December 1958 -- The Citizens' Council, "Conditions in U.S. Today Offer Alarming Parallel to First Reconstruction Era of a Century Ago," August 1960 -- Richard Quinn (c. 1945- ), "Martin Luther King Day," Fall 1983 -- James Ronald Kennedy (1947- ) and Walter Donald Kennedy (1947- ), "Equality of Opportunity," 1994 -- "Sic Semper Tyrannis" T-shirt, 1999 -- Alister C. Anderson (c. 1924- ), "Address at Arlington National Cemetery," June 6, 1999 -- Moses Ezekiel, Arlington Cemetery Confederate Monument, detail, June 4, 1914 -- Sons of Confederate Veterans, "Postcard Objecting to Mention of Slavery at Civil War Sites," 2000 -- John J. Dwyer (1956- ), "Introduction" to The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War, 2005 -- "Lincoln's Worst Nightmare," 1996-99 -- States Voting for Lincoln (Republican, 1860) and Kerry (Democrat, 2004) -- Sonny Perdue (1946- ), "Confederate History Month Proclamation," March 5, 2008.

Frank Conner, "Where We Stand Now: And How We Got Here," September 2003.