The States of America: The South: Volume Five

Tennessee, Virginia & West Virginia

De: Daniel Hardy

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Histoires of Tennessee, Virginia & West Virginia In One Collected Volume

Three states. One mountain range. A shared history written in blood, coal, and resilience.

In this compelling volume of The States Of America series, Daniel Hardy explores the intertwined destinies of Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia—three states bound together by the Appalachian Mountains and forever marked by their role in America's most transformative conflicts.

From Virginia's colonial beginnings at Jamestown to its emergence as the "Mother of Presidents," from Tennessee's frontier origins and Andrew Jackson's populist revolution to the tragedy of the Trail of Tears, from West Virginia's unprecedented birth during the Civil War to the labor battles of the Mine Wars, Hardy traces the forces that shaped these distinctive American places.

These are stories of contradiction and courage: of a nation founded on liberty while built on slavery, of families and communities torn apart by civil war, of mountain people who fought powerful corporations for dignity and fair wages. Hardy examines how the extraction of Appalachia's natural wealth created both prosperity and devastation, how the Civil War didn't simply divide these states but shattered them from within, and how the question of what it means to be Southern remains contested and complex.

Accessible yet authoritative, The States Of America: The South: Volume Four reveals how Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia embody the most difficult and consequential questions in American history—questions that remain powerfully relevant today.