Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government

List of Contributors

Contributors Fred Arthur Bailey is professor emeritus and former head of the Department of History at Abilene Christian University. He is the author of William Edward Dodd: The South’s Yeoman Scholar and also Class and Tennessee’s Confederate Generation. Chris Danielson is assistant professor of history at Montana Tech of the University of Montana. He is the author of After Freedom Summer: How Race Realigned Mississippi Politics, 1965–1986. Natalie Motise Davis is Howell T. Heflin Professor of American Politics at Birmingham-Southern College, where she has taught for four decades. She is a nationally recognized public-opinion expert who conducts political polls throughout Dixie. Davis was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1996. Rebecca Miller Davis is lecturer in American history at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Her work has appeared in several journals such as the Journal of Mississippi History and South Carolina Historical Magazine. Matthew L. Downs is assistant professor of history at the University of Mobile . His current work focuses on the effects of the Tennessee Valley Authority on the Sun Belt South. Glenn Feldman is professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham . He is the author or editor of a number of books on American and southern politics, religion, race relations, economics, and historiography. David R. Jansson is researcher in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. He is the editor of the 344 · Contributors forthcoming book From Åland to America: The Immigrant Experience and the Art of Warner Sallman, Haddon Sundblom, and Phil Fagerholm. Allan B. McBride is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, International Development, and International Affairs at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of numerous journal articles. Martin T. Olliff is associate professor of history and director of the Archives of Wiregrass History and Culture at Troy State University–Dothan. He is the editor of The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I. Gregory L. Richard is assistant professor of history at Winona State University . His work has appeared in Louisiana History. Thomas F. Schaller is professor of political science at the University of Maryland–Baltimore County and a columnist for the Baltimore Sun and several other newspapers. He is the author of the best-selling Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win without the South. Zachary C. Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Georgia . He has published in the Journal of Southern History and other journals. Jason Morgan Ward is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936–1965. ...