Overview :In the decades before the Civil War, movements to reform American lives swept the United States. Reformers strove to stamp out what they per... Read More
Overview :Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and ... Read More
Overview :In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the "Arkansas morass" in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused... Read More
Overview :An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of Americ... Read More
Overview :Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man ... Read More