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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Paperback | 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 ... 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

Carter G. Woodson

Jacqueline Goggin

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• This is a biography of Carter G. Woodson, the only black of slave parentage to earn a PhD in history, a trailblazer whose lifelong concern with the pr... 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

Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South

Dewey W Grantham

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Cutting across the Bourbon Era, the Populist Revolt, and the Progressive Movement, Hoke Smith's career gave expression to the Southern politics of his... Lees meer

Frontiersman

Meredith Mason Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. The scar... Lees meer

Edward Douglass White

Robert B Highsaw

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White, a ''large and bearish man from Louisiana, '' served on the United States Supreme Court for t... Lees meer

Joseph E. Brown of Georgia

Joseph Howard Parks

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Joseph Brown was a pivotal figure in southern history and a prototype of a new breed of southern politician in the mid-nineteenth century-the hill cou... Lees meer

Andrew Jackson, Southerner

Mark R Cheathem

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Biography
• Winner of the 2013 Tennessee History Award Many Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians, and stole another ma... Lees meer