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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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