This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction
and the history of the western United States. Award-winning historians such as Steven …

After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union
forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal …

The South in Modern America is a lively and illuminating account of the Southern
experience since the end of Reconstruction. In the twentieth century, as in the nineteenth …

A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly
the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this challenging new book Bruce Baker looks at …

“This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era... will be appealing... to
anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics”(Publishers Weekly). The …

In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the
Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have …

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance
to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman …

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina
and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and …