This provocative book draws from a variety of sources—literature, politics, folklore, social history—to attempt to set Southern beliefs about violence in a

A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and storie

"One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." —Chris Hayes The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congr