United Association for Labor Education Best Book Award The American Dream of reaching success through sheer sweat and determination rings false for countless me

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation

Radical Reform describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement. It portrays the largely unknown leaders of the interracial Republican Part

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries