Books written by Joel Williamson
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Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
4. Erika Doss, Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999). 5. Vernon Chadwick, ed., In Search of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997); E. Warren Perry, Jr., ed., ...
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A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
Bryant, Clara, 274, 279-81, 307, 353 Bryce, James, 222 Buchanan, James, 107 Buffalo Bill, 203 Bull Run, Battle of, 229 Bullard, Isaac, 75 Bullitt, William C., 307 Bunyan, John, 28, 59 Burbank, Luther, 210 Bureaucracy, 458-59 Burgesses, ...
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William Faulkner and Southern History
Martin Shepherd and his wife were close neighbors to the Faulkners at the beach. One evening while they were sitting on their porch, they heard Bill excitedly calling to Martin. “She's going to drown herself,” he shouted.
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A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
Also out of the struggle came the prime organization in using the method, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and its charismatic leader, Martin Luther King.32 With the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern ...
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The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920.
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William Faulkner and Southern History
Equally important, Williamson uses these stories to underscore themes of race, class, economics, politics, religion, sex and violence, idealism and Romanticism--"the rainbow of elements in human culture"--that reappear in Faulkner's work.
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Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time.
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Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time.
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The Crucible of Race: Black/white Relations in the American South Since Emancipation
This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920.
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New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
New People is an insightful historical analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and blacks from colonial times to the present, of the “new people” produced by these interracial relationships, and of the myriad ways in which ...