Senator Albert Gore, Sr.

Kyle Longley

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Biography
• Best remembered as the father of Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore, Sr., worked tirelessly in politics himself, a Democratic congressman and senator... Lees meer

Champion of Civil Rights

Joel William Friedman

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court ... Lees meer

Zachary Taylor

K Jack Bauer

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. Accordin... Lees meer

Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia

Thomas E Schott

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• WINNER OF THE JEFFERSON DAVIS AWARD Rising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883) became one of the ... Lees meer

William Spratling, His Life and Art

Taylor D Littleton

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the m... Lees meer

Democracy's Lawyer

J Roderick Heller

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775--1840) epitomized the "American democrat" who so famously fa... Lees meer

Maverick Republican in the Old North State

Jeffrey J Crow, Robert F Durden

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed "the other South." The son of an aristocratic eastern North Carolina family of staunch... Lees meer

Stephen A. Swails

Gordon C Rhea

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Biography
• Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in t... Lees meer

David French Boyd

Germaine M Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• David Boyd's biography is the story of one man's dedicated struggle to protect and preserve Louisiana's fledgling state university from the cumulative... Lees meer

An American Planter

Martha Jane Brazy

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Biography
• Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, eco... Lees meer

Lincoln's Resolute Unionist

Dennis K Boman

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Biography
• As provisional governor of Missouri during the Civil War, Hamilton Gamble (1798--1864) worked closely with the Lincoln administration to keep the stat... Lees meer

Battling Nell

Alexander S Leidholdt

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Biography
• A longtime columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer, Cornelia Battle Lewis earned a national reputation in the 1920s and 1930s for her courageous a... Lees meer

The Percys of Mississippi

Lewis Baker

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Set in the twilight years of southern aristocracy, The Percys of Mississippi is a biography of a family in whose bloodline ran both a strong commitmen... Lees meer

Lucy Audubon

Carolyn E DeLatte

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Wife of the great naturalist John James Audubon, Lucy Bakewell Audubon (1788-1874) was a powerful and extraordinary woman who coped resourcefully with... Lees meer

Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood

James C Klotter

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• When attorney John Jay Cornelison severely beat Kentucky Superior Court judge Richard Reid in public on April 16, 1884, for allegedly injuring his hon... Lees meer

Earl K. Long

Michael L Kurtz, Morgan D Peoples

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• In a region famous for its flamboyant politicians, Earl K. Long was one of the most flamboyant of them all. This first full-scale biography of the for... Lees meer

Urban Emancipation

Michael W Fitzgerald

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Scholars of Reconstruction have generally described Republican party factional conflicts in racial terms, as if the Radical agenda evoked unified blac... Lees meer

Lucy Somerville Howorth

Dorothy S Shawhan, Martha H Swain

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Biography
• Born, raised, and retired in Mississippi, Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895-1997) was a champion for the rights of women long before feminism emerged as a... Lees meer

Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor

Canter Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Biography
• In this exceptional biography, Canter Brown, Jr., removes Ossian Bingley Hart (1821-1874)--a Unionist, the principal founder of the Republican Party i... Lees meer

Fair Labor Lawyer

Marlene Trestman

• Hardcover | Engels | Southern Biography
• Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while cr... Lees meer

In the Cause of Liberty

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflic... Lees meer

John A. Quitman

Robert E May

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In th... Lees meer

Lucy Somerville Howorth

Dorothy S Shawhan, Martha H Swain

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Mississippi native Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895-1997) championed for the rights of women long before feminism was a widely recognized movement. Dorot... Lees meer

A Jackson Man

Donald B Cole

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• "Well researched... and well written, this work gives us Kendall, warts and all. We see the avarice, the ambition, and the contradictions of his subje... Lees meer