By 1860 the South ranked high among the developed countries of the world in per capita income and life expectancy and in the number of railroad miles, telegraph

What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists active

Planters' Progress is the first book to examine the profoundly transformative industrialization of a southern state during the Civil War. More than any other Co

Could the South have won the Civil War? To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh

The four years of the Civil War saw bloodshed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the United States. Thousands of soldiers and sailors from both sides wh