James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War.

This text aims to explode two notions that are commonplace in American cultural histories of the 19th century: that the spread of literature was a simple force

When rapper Da Nigga is sent back in time, he finds himself a slave forced to live the life of his ancestors. A rapper in the present day, Da Nigga must confron

A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engin