A short, provocative new history of the Civil War showing how divisions within the South itself, plus the genius of Abraham Lincoln, won the war for the North.
A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy James T. Patterson, William W. Freehling, Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus James T Patterson. on a phrase that Frankfurter suggested as a way of dealing with the troublesome ...
In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American ...
In The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World, Fred Hobson observes a tendency in contemporary southern fiction to “pok[e] fun at Ohio” as having “too much sameness”—as epitomizing, in other words, the bland American norm against which ...
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A companion to "The South Beach Diet" presents more than two hundred recipes that demonstrate how to eat healthfully without compromising taste, outlining the diet's basic philosophies and sharing personal success stories.
In this collectible from the editors from Time-Life, the Civil War, the focus is on the greatest military leaders from both the Union and the Confederacy.
This charming book is destined to become a bible for the Southern girl—whether born and bred, expatriated, or adoptive—and her many admirers. “Funny, wise, charming, and smart.
However, thousands with other ethnic backgrounds also took a stand--and not always for the South. Invisible Southerners recounts the wartime experiences of the region's German Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans.
Interwoven through these stories is the more somber and largely forgotten account of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a West African prince who was enslaved in Natchez and became a cause célèbre in the 1820s, eventually gaining his freedom and ...
A Second American Civil War. From the backroom deals in Washington D.C. to the front lines of the battlefield. Daugherty offers an unflinching view of how a modern war on American soil would play out.