San Antonio College Library

Washington, D.C. during the Civil War; reads almost like a storybook. "Margaret Leech's Washington is an incredible city, a war capital seemingly without control of its own resources. Filthy, ugly and unfinished, it swarmed with prostitutes, dead horses rotted in the streets and only a brave and well-armed man would think of going out after dark. Confederate cavalry contemptuously galloped around the city. Lincoln once went out to Fort Stevens and...

Focusing on the War of 1898, Louis Perez presents both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate history of the war that is informed by Cuban sources. --From publisher's description.

Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. Best Book of South Carolina History Finalist, South Carolina Historical Society. Tracing the advances of African-American archaeology since the 1960s, Uncommon Ground reveals how archaeologists have compared knowledge with folklorists and historians to form a new, more complex portrait of the world the early slaves made.

In this book Professor Roger Ransom examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the Union in 1860, and the equally determined effort of Northerners to preserve it. Ransom argues that the system of capitalist slavery in the South not only "caused" the Civil War by producing tensions that could not be resolved by compromise; it also played a crucial role in the outcome of that war by crippling the southern...

Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors...