"Lives full of struggle and triumph": Southern women, their institutions, and their communities

'The empire of my heart': the marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd / Paula A. Treckel

The new Andromeda: Sarah Morgan and the post-Civil War domestic ideal / Giselle Roberts

'The worst results in Mississippi may prove the best for us': Blanche Butler Ames and reconstruction / Warren Ellem

'College girls': the female academy and female identity in the old South / Anya Jabour

'Tis true that our Southern ladies have done and are still acting a conspicuous part in this war': women on the Confederate home front in Edgefield County, South Carolina / Orville Vernon Burton

Ministries in black and white: the Catholic nuns of St. Augustine, 1859-1869 / Barbara E. Mattick

The rise of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1894-1914 / Karen L. Cox

Keepers of the hearth: women, the Klan, and traditional family values / Glenn Feldman

A warm, personal friend, or worse than Hitler? How Southern women viewed Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945 / Pamela Tyler

Esther Cooper Jackson: a life in the whirlwind / Sarah Hart Brown

From sharecropper to schoolteacher: Thelma McGee's Mississippi girlhood / Kathi Kern

'Bridges burned to a privileged past': Anne Braden and the Southern Freedom Movement / Catherine Fosl

Vivion Brewer of Arkansas: a ladylike assault on the 'Southern way of life' / Elizabeth Jacoway

After the wives went to work: organizing women in the Southern apparel industry / Michelle Haberland.