The Great Lie of the Civil War If you think the Civil War was fought to end slavery, you’ve been duped. In fact, as distinguished military historian Samuel Mi

"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron Chernow In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier a

The prevailing Civil War narrative is that the South committed treason by seceding to protect slavery and the North went to war to protect the union and free th

In this grand and compelling new history of Reconstruction, Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's firs

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