New Perspectives on the History of the South

This interdisciplinary series is devoted to new issues, ideas, and interpretations in southern history. Books in this series range widely in scope and address all chronological periods of the South’s history. Of special interest are topics that treat class and racial relations and issues of gender and ethnicity.

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Cover of 'Dreams and Nightmares' by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

Dreams and Nightmares

Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America

by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: August 2025

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From Rights to Economics

The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South

by Timothy J. Minchin

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: June 2025

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The Ticket to Freedom

The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration

by Manfred Berg

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: September 2007

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Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold

Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina

by Shepherd W. McKinley

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: November 2017

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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World

Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937–1955

by Lindsey R. Swindall

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: May 2019

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After Slavery

Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South

Edited by Bruce Baker and Brian Kelly

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: October 2014

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Ain't Scared of Your Jail

Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement

by Zoe A. Colley

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: July 2014

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The Quarters and the Fields

Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South

by Damian Alan Pargas

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: October 2011

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The Southern Mind Under Union Rule

The Diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862-1865

by Judkin Browning

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: May 2011

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Counterfeit Gentlemen

Manhood and Humor in the Old South

by John Mayfield

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Pub Date: February 2011

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