Never before or since in American history have the needs and influence of the military weighed so...

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of...

The South often seems like a foreign country to newcomers from other parts of the United States.A...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of Afr...

The secession of the southern states marked the beginning of the trial of Confederate nationalism...

A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and th...

Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition an...

Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition an...

The Worst Passions of Human Nature

Spain and the United States both experienced extremely bloody and divisive civil wars that left s...

His work will not only illuminate emerging research but will provide inspiration for future resea...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of Afr...

Originally published in 1992, A History of African Americans in North Carolina was the first one-...

A History of African Americans in North Carolina

'Many Excellent People' examines the nature of North Carolina's social system, particularly race ...

Spain and the United States both experienced extremely bloody and divisive civil wars that left s...

This book discusses how Tar Heels was divided over war, reconstruction, gender, and race.Although...

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values an...