The South in the History of the Nation: A Reader, Volume Two: From Reconstruction Tapa blanda - 1999

WILLIAM A. LINK is department head and professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is author of "A Hard Country and Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920" (1986); "The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930" (1992); "Power and Purpose in American Higher Education" (1995); and "The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths and Other Documents of Social Reform in the Progressive Era South" (Bedford Books, 1996)
MARJORIE SPRUILL WHEELER, professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, is a former president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She is best known for her work on the woman suffrage movement, including "New Women of the South: Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States" (1993) and "One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement" (1995), the companion volume to the PBS documentary "One Woman, One Vote."