The first phase of the Civil War was fought west of the Mississippi River at least six years before the attack on Fort Sumter. Starting with the passage of the

The result of meticulous scholarship and decades of careful collecting to create a body of reliable information, this definitive, full-length biography of the e

To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development

For the newspaper profession the problems confronted in reporting the Civil War were as catalytic as the war itself was for American society. Many of the proble