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1858
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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… |
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Sowing the Wind
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Dorothy Overstreet Pratt |
1 online resource (311 pages) |
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Plain folk and gentry in a slave society
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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… |
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Southern history across the color line
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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… |
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Shelby Foote
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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 … |
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The punished self
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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… |
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