University Press of Mississippi
The architecture of William Nichols : building the antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi
Foreword . . VII
Acknowledgments . . XI
Chronology . . XIII
Introduction . . 3
Chapter One - THE AMBITIOUS YOUNG CARPENTER . . 13
Chapter Two - HAYES . . 43
Chapter Three - CAPTAIN WILLIAM NICHOLS, STATE ARCHITECT OF NORTH CAROLINA . . 61
Chapter Four - THE STATE HOUSE IN RALEIGH . . 101
Chapter Five - ALABAMA . . 123
Chapter Six - LOUISIANA . . 173
Chapter Seven - THE MISSISSIPPI STATE CAPITOL AND THE OFFICE OF STATE ARCHITECT . . 185
Chapter Eight - "... ENTIRE MASTER OF His PROFESSION" . . 231
Epilogue . . 269
Notes . . 283
Bibliography . . 313
Index . . 323
Trouble in Goshen : plain folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South
Preface . . VII
Introduction . . 3
1. Prevenience . . 17
2. Tupelo Homesteads: A Shelter in the Storm . . 27
3. Dyess Colony . . 48
4. Life and Times at Dyess . . 78
5. Delta Cooperative Farm and the Death of a Vision . . 114
6. Leaving Goshen . . 143
Notes . . 147
Bibliography . . 181
Index . . 209