The South Since 1865 Summary

Title: “The South Since 1865”
Author: John Samuel Ezell
Publisher: The Macmillian Company, New York
Length: 511
Reading Time: 2 weeks
Reading Rating: 6 (1=very easy; 10=very difficult)
Overall Rating: 7 (1=poor; 10=Outstanding)

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The South Since 1865 delivers an entertaining account and perspective on the drastic changes in the South. This book is an excellent resource to students, educators and history enthusiasts. In reviewing the book, the principal criteria included content, organization, and reference sources. While editing errors and organizational incongruities plague some of the latter chapters, these are only minor distractions to the story being told. Starting with what the south was in 1865. The south is described
March 9, 1917 - Jan. 8, 2001. John Samuel Ezell was born in Louisville, Kentucky March 9, 1917. He was educated at Wake Forest College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1947. He served in the United States Naval Reserve forces during World War II, seeing combat as a Deck Officer on various ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, including serving as Captain of the minesweeper YMS 8. He was also a Beach master for the planned invasion of Japan. At the end of the war, he was made Historical Officer for the Third Fleet, for which he wrote the logistical history. He was made a David Ross Boyd Professor (1965) and he received numerous teaching awards, the Superior Teaching Award (1954), the Newby Teaching Award (1963), and the University of Oklahoma Student Association Teaching and Service Award (1986). During his academic career, he was actively engaged in re search, writing, and publishing on topics dealing with the social and cultural history of the American South and
It gave me in depth understanding of the South and the way that they interact with the rest of the country. As a woman from the west coast I only know of the great migration of African Americans from the South to the North. But now I understand it was not just because of the poor way that they were treated but for many more reasons. The couldn’t get work because they were thought of as inferior, and it was made harder for them to vote people of the long lines and the voting tax. ‘The southern Negro’ had to be my favorite chapter. The only thing I disliked was how the book justified why the South wouldn’t free the slaves. The booked looked at in more of an economic