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Most Americans think of the Civil War as a series of dramatic clashes between massive armies led by romantic-seeming leaders. But in the Appalachian communities of North Georgia, …
Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still …
The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of a dynamic and philanthropic Irish Catholic immigrant family who came to Virginia in the nineteenth century. While most Irish Catholic …
George S. Bernard was a Petersburg lawyer and member of the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Over the course of his life, Bernard wrote extensively about his …
The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental …
In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia's Reconstruction. Jones argues that questions of how to define, treat, …
Considers the key questions America faced on the eve of the Civil War: What factors fuelled booming national expansion and economic growth, and what roles did they play in the …
Shortlisted for the 2018 Lincoln PrizePrevious biographies of Abraham Lincoln-universally acknowledged as one of America's greatest presidents-have typically focused on his …
Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and …
The story of secession—the prelude to perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history—has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, historian Brent …