Hooded Americanism : the history of the Ku Klux Klan / [by] David M. Chalmers;with a new epilogue by the author.

Includes index

Contents: A quick look behind the mark -- The Klan rides, 1865-71 -- The birth of a nation -- The Klan revival, 1915-21 -- The eyes of Texas -- Mayhem and marital law in Oklahoma -- The Razorback Klan - Louisiana : black sheets among the Bayous -- Mississippi : fiery crosses on the Levee -- Georgia : the Klan tabernacle -- The heart of Dixie -- Oregon : puritanism repotted -- Success and schism in the Tarheel State -- Klansmen in the Carolina Piedmont -- The price of success -- The ten-dollar special -- Gold-rush days in California -- Pikes peak or bust -- In defense of inland America -- Twisting the Klan's shirttail in Kansas -- Bad luck in Minneapolis -- Border-state Klans -- Klan castles in Indiana -- Mighty Ohio -- The fighting Illini -- Badget games in Wisconsin -- White robes on Woodward Avenue -- National politics -- The championship fight in Madison Square garden -- Anticlimax : the nineteen twenty-four election -- From Canada to the Rio Grande -- Every man for himself in Florida -- Attempted dominion in Virginia -- Riotous doings in Penn's woods -- Methodists and madness in the Garden State -- The E-ri-e was a-rising, and the gin was getting low -- Defending the Puritan fathers -- The Klan international -- Marching on Washington -- Decline -- Nineteen twenty-eight, a year of perils and promises -- The depression decade, 1929-39 -- All dressed up but not going anywhere : the Colescott era -- The hooded world of Dr. Green -- The death of the dragon -- Laissex faire, violence, and confusion in the late fifties -- The new frontiers of the nineteen sixties -- The long hot summe