An author of the Valley of the Shadow Project presents a series of essays on the American Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South to consider such issues as slavery, secession, and poverty as contributing factors to ...

"This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians. These participants in a daylong conference focusin...

America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries is co-published by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Edited by Edward L. Ayers, America's War is an ...