This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and

This timely anthology describes how and why the Ku Klux Klan became one of the most influential social movements in modern American history. For decades histori

The end of the Civil War left a fearful and resentful South struggling to understand the changes the war had wrought. Those seeking a focus for their anger quic