Introduction : Families, values, and Southern history / Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour
pt.1. Defining (and defying) Southern family values : "Every thing but a parent's love" : family life in orphan asylums of the Lower Mississippi Valley / Nancy Zey
"He come sometimes widout de pass" : rethinking cross-plantation marriages and enslaved families in Anebellum South Carolina / Emily West
Little Eva's last breath : childhood death and parental mourning in "Our family, white and black" / Craig Thompson Friend
Female families : same-sex love in the Victorian South / Anya Jabour
pt.2. Measuring families' value : Out of whole cloth? Sewing and family in the Old South / Lynn Kennedy
A family firm : the marital and business partnership of Ann and Richard Archer / Nikki Berg Burin
Making a home in public : domesticity, authority, and family in the Old South's public houses / Kirsten E. Wood
pt.3. Family values and social order : Family ties : Indian countrymen, George Stinson, and Creek sovereignty / Andrew K. Frank
White families and political culture in the Old South / Christopher J. Olsen
A view of a will : miscengenation, inheritance, and family in Civil War Era Charleston / Kevin Noble Maillard.
