From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman’s troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of t

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the benefici

Sociology for the South: Or, The Failure of Free Society by George Fitzhugh, first published in 1854, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the

A stimulating and profound analysis of the factors which brought a nation into war with itself.