THE THIRD INSTALLMENT of Dr. Clyde N. Wilson’s SOUTHERN READER’S GUIDES distills more than a half century of scholarship into identifying and describing 50 essential books on the topic of…

Granny Clampett, on the TV sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, described the War Between the States as when the Yankees invaded America and, indeed, it was! Their invasion of America, however…

While the United States recovered from the Civil War, scholars undertook the task of chronicling its events, and its impact. This sparked an era of professionalization for historians in America…

In Ethical Judgment, Abraham Edel makes clear the part played by biological and social scientific information in ethical judgment and moral action using psychological, anthropological, and economic materials as well…

The American Civil War was not a Civil War and everyone knows it, yet the use of this misleading and inaccurate designation is almost universal in the English speaking world…

For anyone who views Mel Bradford’s literary criticism as mere prelude to the more important work of political and social commentary, let me offer a cautionary word. Literary works always…