“Readers will find Brownlow unique, above all, but as entertaining as he is sometimes thrillingly loathsome, full of great energy and rhetorical skill and ram

"Readers will find Brownlow unique, above all, but as entertaining as he is sometimes thrillingly loathsome, full of great energy and rhetorical skill and rambu

Bowman explores the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the secession peri

“Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” —Library

A sweeping history of the Lower Mississippi Valley and its central role in abolishing slavery in the American South.