Forgotten People

Gary B Mills, Elizabeth Shown Mills

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their pla... Lees meer

The Diary of a Civil War Bride

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• Lucy Wood Butler's diary provides a compelling account of one woman's struggle to come to terms with the realities of war on the Confederate home fron... Lees meer

An East Texas Family's Civil War

Jacqueline Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstr... Lees meer

I'll Take My Stand

Susan V. Donaldson

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve ... Lees meer

The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi

Joseph G Baldwin

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• The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi , originally published in 1853, consists of twenty-six sketches and satires drawn from Joseph G. Baldwin's ... Lees meer

Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866

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• Two months before the Civil War broke out, Emma Holmes made the first entry in a diary that would eventually hold vivid firsthand accounts of several ... Lees meer

Surveying the Early Republic

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• In Surveying the Early Republic , Robert D. Bush contextualizes the firsthand account of Andrew Ellicott, the United States Boundary Commissioner appo... Lees meer

The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn

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• Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised a... Lees meer

Beulah

Augusta Jane Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• Augusta Jane Evans, one of the most popular domestic novelists of the latter half of the nineteenth century, was born in 1835 in Columbus, Georgia, bu... Lees meer

The Free Flag of Cuba

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• The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the "Queen of the Confederacy," Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was... Lees meer

Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky

C. L. Innes

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His fi... Lees meer

Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky

C. L. Innes

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His fi... Lees meer

Peculiar Crossroads

Farrell O'Gorman

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valua... Lees meer

Walt Whitman's New Orleans

Walt Whitman

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• Walt Whitman's short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated po... Lees meer

Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays

Donald Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• A decade and more has passed since the first publication of Still Rebels, Still Yankees . During that time the book has become recognized as a classic... Lees meer

Ideology of Slavery

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• In one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologists are now conveniently accessible to scholars and stu... Lees meer

Lanterns on the Levee

William Alexander Percy

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifet... Lees meer

Brokenburn

Drew Gilpin Faust

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living w... Lees meer

Marsh Mission

Rhea Gary

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• Louisiana is in a desperate battle to save what remains of its coastal wetlands, which are disappearing at the rate of a football field--size area eve... Lees meer

Macaria

Augusta Jane Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• First published in 1864, Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice was the third novel of Augusta Jane Evans, one of the leading women writers of nineteenth-cen... Lees meer

Henry Adams in the Secession Crisis

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• During the Secession Winter session of Congress, twenty-two-year-old Henry Adams worked as private secretary to his father, Representative Charles Fra... Lees meer

The Invisible Empire

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• The North Carolina carpetbagger Albion Winegar Tourgée came to the South in 1865 after serving as a Union volunteer during the Civil War. His struggle... Lees meer

Bricks Without Straw

Albion Winegar Tourgee

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• Albion W. Tourgée, a former Union officer from Ohio, came to North Carolina in search of economic opportunity after the collapse of the Confederacy. A... Lees meer

Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South

A D Mayo

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Southern Civilization
• Like many other northern clergymen after the Civil War, A. D. Mayo became interested in the role that education could play in rebuilding southern soci... Lees meer