In much of the United States, immigrants from China banded together in self-enclosed communities, “Chinatowns,” in which they retained their language, cultu

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative wo

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How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond