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This Republic of Suffering
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew …
The Missing of the Somme
A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer, reissued with a new introduction by Drew Gilpin Faust The Missing of the Somme is …
Dixie Redux
Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney is a collection of original essays written by some of the nation’s most distinguished historians. Each of the contributors has a …
The Creation of Confederate Nationalism
For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little …
James Henry Hammond and the Old South
From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman's troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of …
This Republic of Suffering
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew …
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized …
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized …
Shapers of Southern History
This volume gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, traveling diverse career paths, and practicing …
Brokenburn
This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five …
Esta República del sufrimiento
Durante la Guerra de Secesión de Estados Unidos, más de seiscientos mil soldados perdieron la vida, una carnicería sin precedentes que, en términos actuales, equivaldría a seis …
Mothers of Invention
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising …