'Samplers reflected female education in the south and how those views changed over time. The majo...

'This is a compendium of the best hikes in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area stemming fro...

Amid the chaos of battle and the harsh conditions of prisoner-of-war camps, tens of thousands of ...

Amid the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the early twentieth century, Progressive Era...

In the early days of the Cold War, the United States Army underwent a fundamental shift in its st...

When Claiborne Fox Jackson took the oath of office as Missouri's governor on January 3, 1861, onl...

The long-running Decisions Series tackles the Brown Water Navy.

In this scholarly treatment of a lesser-known denomination, J. Matthew Pinson offers a comprehens...

Sister Sandra Smithson, a Black Franciscan nun from Tennessee, lived her extraordinary life on th...

For six decades, Robert Morgan has been a preeminent voice in southern Appalachian literature. Gr...

What was served at President James K. Polk's White House dinners? What foods graced the table of ...

Guided by memory and experience, reading and conversations, Linda Flowers offers a perceptive and...

Drawing upon oral traditions, historical documents, and accounts by observers and scholars made o...

'The Wall Between is a chilling depiction of a pattern repeated over and over again across the So...

Visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park are likely to see a variety of wildlife, from the...

'The Maryland Campaign represented Gen. Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North. Opposing Lee...

The remarkable military career of General Winfield Scott spanned fifty-three years, fourteen pres...

Intended for a general readership, Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign introduces readers to critic...

Thomas W. Colley served in one of the most active and famous units in the Civil War, the 1st Virg...

The second half of the 19th century in Russian philosophy sees the more or less definitive triump...

Winner of the W.D. Weatherford Award

Basing her account on wills, probate records, published and unpublished census data, journals, di...

'Happy in the Service of the Lord' provides an in-depth look at the development of the African-Am...

Traces Dahlman's 2013 trek over the 275-mile trail from Sycamore Shoals, near Elizabethton, Tenne...

In the fall and winter of 1863, Union General Ambrose Burnside and Confederate General James Long...

After Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant u...

In 1925, Paul Adams was appointed custodian of Mount Le Conte, the third-highest peak of the Grea...

'This book examines the roots of the military industrial complex (MIC) in the eighteenth and nine...

Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU)...

'This is a powerful, evocative book filled with the contradictions of loving things you will one ...

Many consider the Battle of Chancellorsville to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee's greatest o...

'From June 25 to July 1, 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia engaged Maj. Gen. G...

'John Shelton Reed compiles reviews, essays, magazine articles, op-eds, and book extracts from hi...

“Arthur Carter brings new perspective to Confederate knight-errant Earl Van Dorn, who might have ...

This book is an updated edition of Jefferson Chapman's 1985 account of one of the most productive...

Nestled amid the western slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, bisected by the L...

Encompassing more than 140,000 acres of scenic beauty in southwestern Virginia, the Mount Rogers ...

This volume presents a new critical edition of the original 1833 publication, expanded to include...

Most Americans are more aware of the workings of the federal government than of their own state g...

In this captivating collection of twelve essays, a testament to a lifetime's fascination with the...

Some Southern generals, like Lee and Jackson, have stood the test of time, celebrated in their pl...

Now updated with a new predface that examines dramatic changes in his favourite hiking and campin...

Hazel Pendley creates heirloom-quality quilts. Ed Ripley wraps bits of fur and feathers into trou...

|Developed just after the close of the Civil War, the Springfield Gas Machine was a unique commer...

Many students of the Civil War have concluded that the overstudied conflict in the Eastern Theate...

In this provocative work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notions n this provocative wor...

Religion has long been a source of identity for many Southerners, and the Appalachian areas in pa...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written...