From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman’s troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of t

Examines the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings through the Civil War.

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the benefici

This is a spirited history of the settlement of the Old Southwest, the area that today includes primarily Mississippi and Alabama.

Sociology for the South: Or, The Failure of Free Society by George Fitzhugh, first published in 1854, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the