Overview :Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presi... Read More
Overview :In the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rig... Read More
Overview :The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to "catch the learning" after northern abolitionists founded Pe... Read More
Overview :No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reco... Read More
Overview :Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Becoming Southern Writers pays tribute to South Carolinian Ch... Read More
Overview :The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the "Queen of the Confederacy," Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832... Read More
Overview :Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on ev... Read More