The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into Southern inte

The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850, was issued in 1931 by another publisher, and is reissued now without change, under our imprin

With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two