Providing a fresh look at a crucial aspect of the American Civil War, this new study explores the day-to-day life of people in the Confederate States of America as they struggled to cope with a crisis that spared no one, military or civilian.
This study of the importance of the little-known Civil War battle is “a well written, thoroughly researched, amply illustrated, and engaging story” (Civil War Courier).
In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion.
Lincoln scholars explore the president’s law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution.
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time.
One hundred years ago the nation reeled at the brutal rape and murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan and the arrest of her accused killer, Leo Frank.
An anthology exploring the modernization of the South Carolina upcountry and the region's role in creating the New SouthContinuing the theme of unexplored moments introduced in Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History, Timothy P.
In Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author, Jodie Peeler tells the story of a man consumed with a need to see the world but whose heart never really left home.
A counter-revisionist examination of JFK and his administration, Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963.
Between Columbus' first expedition in 1492 and the Peace of Paris in 1763, West Europeans created empires of trade and settlement that re-made the social, economic, and political environments not only of their own peoples, but also those of the other societies around the North Atlantic.
An in-depth look at the institution as the center of many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically.
One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s.
Defying many of the supposed rules of civilization building, and lacking the advantages of a written language, hard metals, the wheel, or draft animals, the Incas forged one of the greatest imperial states in history.
Inklings: John Wilkins Carter and The Carter's Ink Company is the story of an old New England family and the companies they created and operated-beginning with Timothy Carter's Old Corner Bookstore in downtown Boston and spanning a 150-year period.
Historian Stanley Weintraub, author of Silent Night, combines two winning topicsChristmas and the Civil Warin General Shermans Christmas, new from Smithsonian Books.
There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show.
Losing Eden traces the environmental history and development of the American West and explains how the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live there.
The first comprehensive study of one of America's most gifted civil rights activists and political mavericksWhen civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.
The Battle for Mametz Wood is normally associated with the endeavors of the 38th Welsh Division and was the first of those great battles to secure possession of the woodlands of the Somme.
This study of the importance of the little-known Civil War battle is “a well written, thoroughly researched, amply illustrated, and engaging story” (Civil War Courier).
A study of the man who led the Supreme Court as the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, exploring issues of property, government authority, and more.
