Focusing on the cultural conflicts between social reformers and southern communities, William Link presents an important reinterpretation of the origins and imp
For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to t
In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not
Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues th