John C Willis

Biographic Data

ID5840281
NAMEJohn C Willis
GIVEN NAMESJohn C
FAMILY NAMEWillis
SIGNATUREWILLIS J C
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX2

  • Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation

    John C Willis, J William HarrisARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2003

  • Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

    John M Giggie, John C WillisARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2002

  • Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

    Bradley G Bond, John C WillisARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002Cited by: 4

    Although it came to epitomize the Cotton South in the twentieth century, the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta emerged as a distinct entity in the decades following the Civil War. As other southerners confronted the need to rebuild, the Delta remained mostly wilderness in 1865. Elsewhere, planters struggled to maintain the perquisites of slaveholding and poor families tried desperately to escape the sharecropper's lot, yet Delta landlords offered generous …

  • Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

    Robert C Kenzer, John C WillisARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    This work explores the level of economic opportunity that African Americans in the Ya zooMississippi Delta experienced from the end of the Civil War through the early twentieth century. John C. Willis begins by noting how undeveloped this area was in 1860 when it contained fewer than fifty thousand settlers (87 percent African American) and but one tenth of its acreage had been cleared. It would be the combination of vast untapped resources and t…

  • American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998

    John C Willis, Ted OwnbyARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2000

  • The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family

    John C Willis, Bertram Wyatt-Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family. By Bertram Wyatt-Brown. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii, 454 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-505626-4.) Get access John C. Willis John C. Willis University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 185–186, https://doi.or…

  • Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

    John C Willis, Charles B DewARTICLEThe American Historical Review1995Cited by: 7

    Buffalo Forge, an extensive ironmaking and farming enterprise near Lexington, Virginia, was bought in 1812 by a Philadelphian, William Weaver. By the Civil War, Weaver had amassed a great estate, including 70 slaves of his own plus 100 slaves hired annually to run his blast furnaces and farm his 20,000 acres. Weaver and his successors were fastidious record keepers. A unique treasury of documents has survived - of births, marriages, illnesses and…

  • The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia

    Mitchell Snay, Edward L Ayers et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia

    RICHARD LOWE, Edward L Ayers et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Ed. by Edward L. Ayers and John C. Willis. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. xii + 256 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-1298-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8139-1322-5.) Get access Richard Lowe Richard Lowe University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1…

  • The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia

    Louis B Gimelli, Edward L Ayers et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1991