Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
1858 1858 Bruce Chadwick "Highly recommended–a gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical t… OL2006709W
Sowing the Wind Sowing the Wind Dorothy Overstreet Pratt 1 online resource (311 pages) OL21156778W
Plain folk and gentry in a slave society Plain folk and gentry in a slave society J. William Harris In 1861, only about one-quarter of white southern families owned slaves, yet the vast majority of nonslave-owning whites followed southern planters into a long and bloody war to defend slavery. In do… OL2743142W
Southern history across the color line Southern history across the color line Nell Irvin Painter "In this collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twe… OL2978164W
Shelby Foote Shelby Foote C. Stuart Chapman "For a biographer Shelby Foote is a famously reluctant subject. In writing this biography however, C. Stuart Chapman gained valuable access through interviews and shared correspondence, an advantage … OL5953378W
The punished self The punished self Alex Bontemps "The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps explores slavery's effects on the captives… OL7307234W