Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil War. Idea

This work brings up-to-date perspectives to the oversimplification of racial categories and new insight into the complexity of social relationships in these two

Rogosin (history, St. Lawrence U.) uses the Civil War pension system as a rich source of documentation for enhanced understanding of how ex-slaves made the tran

Moving chronologically from the colonial period to the present, this collection of seventeen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, an

Newcomers to the South often remark that southerners, at least white southerners, are still fighting the Civil War -- a strange preoccupation considering that t