This title provides a selection of essays from one of today's foremost Southern historians explor...

'All Over the Map' makes a distinctive and valuable contribution, and it does so at a critical mo...

Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state's wartime economic, politi...

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to...

The essays in the _The Edge of the South_ provide a welcome addition to the literature on the nin...

A vivid portrait of a society undergoing the sudden confrontation of the promises, costs, and con...

Resonating with the testimony of slaves and slaveholders, the powerful and the powerless, women a...

America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emanicipation on Their 150th Anniversaries is co-p...

What are we looking for when we buy a book to read? A sigh of time when the body relaxes and the ...

This is Volume I (to 1877) of AMERICAN PASSAGES, SECOND EDITION that examines U.S. history the wa...

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bulwer-Lytton's story of fictional events in Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mo...