American Civil War

In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-...

The South has long stood as one of the more absorbing areas of the American experience. What sets the South apart, and what has it meant to be a 's...

The South has long stood as one of the more absorbing areas of the American experience. What sets the South apart, and what has it meant to be a 's...

First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americ...

Originally published in 1933, and written by "America’s historian", James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American na...

Originally published in 1933, and written by "America’s historian", James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American na...

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil War era. These newspap...

The power of the American press to influence and even set the political agenda is commonly associated with the rise of such press barons as Joseph ...

Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to r...

Native Southerners lived in vibrant societies, rich in tradition and cultural sophistication, for thousands of years before the arrival of European...

The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, di...

The squatter--defined by Noah Webster as "one that settles on new land without a title"--had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the...

Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and ra...

This first volume of three discusses the tactical decisions made on day one and the ensuing combat, while also including a brief summary of the gra...