In the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a dis...

Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as ...

Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the...

The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the 'Queen of th...

Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction...

The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to ''catch the learn...

This extraordinary collection of 80 previously unpublished Civil War letters is both a penetratin...

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstructio...

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstructio...

History is best absorbed through the words of those who experienced it. The Gale Library of Daily...

Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Becoming Southern ...

'In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation's sacrifices during the Civi...

A provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, an...

'Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney' is a collection of original essays written by s...

In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a distingui...