Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's mos

Robert Toombs of Georgia stands as one of the most fiery and influential politicians of the nineteenth century. Sarcastic, charming, egotistical, and gracious,

"Traces the core conflict of the American republic - the debate between the central government-favoring Federalists and the individual rights-favoring Anti-Fede