The United States underwent a period of significant evolution between 1865 and 1900. Numerous essential events occurred during this time, including the Second Industrial Revolution, urbanization, immigration, popular entertainment, the relocation of Native Americans, the African Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, shifting gender roles, government corruption, the Gilded Age, the end of Reconstruction, and segregation in the South. James S. Humphrey’s Introduction to a Selected Historiography examines various aspects of Southern history. These aspects encompass the contrasts between labor and class, cultural attitudes, populism, and women's roles in New South society.