Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

Oswald Spengler (1880--1936) is best known for The Decline of the West, in which he propounded hi...

The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who se...

In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis...

In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John ...

Throughout the years of its existence the Confederacy was caught up in a massive war effort that ...

'I had a clock it woke all day,' writes Jonathan Thirkield at the outset of The Waker's Corridor,...

James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short story cycle genre as ...

Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilder...

Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in...

Originally published forty years ago, Bell Irvin Wiley's The Road to Appomattox marked one of the...

First published in 1865, Belle Boyd's memoir of her experiences as a Confederate spy has stood th...