Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction...

Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the...

This extraordinary collection of 80 previously unpublished Civil War letters is both a penetratin...

The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the 'Queen of th...

The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to ''catch the learn...

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstructio...

Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as ...

In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty...

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstructio...