The little-known history of anti-secession Southerners: “Absolutely essential Civil War reading.” —Booklist, starred review Bitterly Divided reveals that

"Bitterly Divided" lays bare the myth of a united confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars--an external one that we know so muc

The Civil War was arguably the watershed event in the history of the United States, forever changing the nature of the Republic and the relationship of individu

“Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” —Library

Activists have long claimed that “the personal is political”, but this book posits the converse: that the political is personal. The United States today is