In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law, Nancy, and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Rumors about t

Stowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations

This social history examines the westward migration of US farming families from the southern seaboard in the years before the American Civil War.