Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

In Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society that required...

Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civ...

Shows how the rise of evangelical religion in the navy helped create a new kind of sailor, technologically trained and steeped in a higher set of v...

Perhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madi...

A comprehensive survey and analysis of the Presbyterian community in its important formative period. The Presbyterian community in Ulster was crea...

Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare, including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics, thrived in localized guerril...

Theodore Roosevelt's New York, published in 1891, was one of forty titles he authored during his lifetime. Roosevelt sets out, as he declares in hi...

Shows how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners, and clients. ...

Initially published between 1970 and 2012, the essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History span almost the entirety of William J. Cooper's...

During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demon...

Mark Twain's visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstream on t...

Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mothe...

The massacre exposed the widely differing ways in which post-Revolutionary Parisians construed the word patriotism, and why the great Revolutionary...

The Visible Confederacy is a comprehensive analysis of the commercially and government-generated visual and material culture of the Confederate Sta...

In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and vio...

In the autumn of 1871, Alexis Romanov, the fourth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, set sail from his homeland for an extended journey through th...

For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore m...

During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, a...

From the time of the American Revolution, most junior officers in the American military attained their positions through election by the volunteer ...

The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. M...

Explores loyalism as a social and political force in eighteenth and nineteenth century British colonies and former colonies. Loyalism in Britain a...