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    Necessary Trouble

    Drew Gilpin Faust

    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.

    To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a…

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    The Missing of the Somme

    Geoff Dyer

    A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer, reissued with a new introduction by Drew Gilpin Faust

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    The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South

    Drew Gilpin Faust

    Argues that coming to a fuller understanding of southern thought during the Civil War period offers a valuable refraction of the essential assumptions on which the Old South and the…

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    James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery

    Drew Gilpin Faust

    From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. A long-awaited biography, Drew…

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    Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

    Drew Gilpin Faust

    Drew Faust offers a compellilng picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy, when every part of these women’s lives became vexed…

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    The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860

    In one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologists are now conveniently accessible to scholars and students of the antebellum South. The Ideology of Slavery…

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    Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

    Drew Gilpin Faust

    Drew Faust offers a compellilng picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy, when every part of these women’s lives became vexed…

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    Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

    Drew Gilpin Faust

    "The former president of Harvard University and the historian Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--

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    This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

    Drew Gilpin Faust

    The president of Harvard University presents this innovative study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and consequences of death in the face of the unprecedented slaughter of the…

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    Macaria: or, Altars of Sacrifice

    Augusta Jane Evans,Drew Gilpin Faust

    First published in 1864, Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice was the third novel of Augusta Jane Evans, one of the leading women writers of nineteenth-century domestic fiction. Long out of…

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    Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison

    Belle Boyd,Sharon Kennedy Nolle,Drew Gilpin Faust

    This memoir of Belle Boyd’s experiences as a Confederate spy was first published in 1865. Belle first gained notoriety when she killed a Union soldier in 1861. During the Federal…

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    Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney

    Charles Joyner,David Moltke-Hansen,Drew Gilpin Faust,J. Mills Thornton,J. Morgan Kousser

    A collection of pieces by Southern historians honoring scholar, university provost and president, and National Endowment for the Humanities chairman Sheldon Hackney.

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    Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections

    Gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, travelling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field’s…

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    Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868

    Drew Gilpin Faust,ANDERSON

    This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her mother, brothers, and younger sister…

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