The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction brings alive this decisive period in American history by taking the reader beyond the realm of generals,

Woodworth compiles and presents brief biographies of individuals important to the Civil War and Reconstruction era, relying on biographical detail and historica

A collection of biographical sketches that profile the lives of ordinary Americans from colonial times through the Reconstruction.

Few figures in American political history are as reviled as Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States. Taking office after the assassinatio

Through the lives of a variety of Texans who put a human face on the state's history, this work presents the history of the 'Lone Star State'.