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William Stephens
In 1737, Englishman William Stephens (1671-1753) sailed to Georgia to serve as colonial secretary to its British Board of Trustees. His lucid reports on the condition of Georgia …
John U. Monro
In 1967, John U. Monro, dean of the college at Harvard, left his twenty-year administrative career at that prestigious university for a teaching position at Miles College - an …
A Southern Moderate in Radical Times
In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the …
Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South
Cutting across the Bourbon Era, the Populist Revolt, and the Progressive Movement, Hoke Smith's career gave expression to the Southern politics of his generation. In Hoke Smith and …
Mary Boykin Chesnut
In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt."" - C. Vann WoodwardMary Boykin Miller Chesnut …
Senator Albert Gore, Sr.
Best remembered as the father of Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore, Sr., worked tirelessly in politics himself, a Democratic congressman and senator from 1939 to 1971 and a …
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
John Marshall (1755-1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 …
An American Planter
Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts …
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877), a principal architect of the South's ""Lost Cause"" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals. In …
Stephen A. Swails
Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry …