by annegregor | Nov 14, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Oates, Stephen B. To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970. In 1970 Stephen B. Oates published a full-scale biography, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. In this work the...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
McDonough, James Lee. The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble: From Atlanta to Franklin and Nashville. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004. In The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble: From Atlanta to Franklin and Nashville, James Lee McDonough...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. In Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s comprehensive work, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South, the author unravels the mystery of the white...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War: 1848-1861. Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. New York: Harper and Row, 1976. David M. Potter wrote The Impending Crisis: America Before the...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World Slaves Made. New York: Random House, 1972. Southern historian Eugene D. Genovese explores antebellum slavery in the South in this ambitious work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made....
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. The years prior to the American Civil War have been debated by historians for decades. It...
