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Edward J. Cashin
George Whitefield changed the religious character of colonial America more than any of his contemporaries. Few Americans today realize that the religious history of the US would be different if…
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The King’s Ranger explores not only military history but also such aspects of the American past as colonial migration, upheaval in the backcountry… and the formation of new settlements in…
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Edward J. CASHIN
If anyone can be said to have lived his life as a legend, it was Berry Benson. As a lad growing up in Hamburg, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia, he…
Offers an account of the Lower Chickasaws, who settled on the Savannah River near Augusta in the early eighteenth century and remained an integral part of the region until the…
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Henry Ellis (1721-1806) is recognized as the most capable of Georgia’s three colonial governors. In this biography Edward J. Cashin presents the fullest account to date of Ellis’s life, and…
By following the career of one influential trader (Lachlan McGillivray) from 1736 to 1776, Cashin presents a historical perspective of the frontier, as a zone of interaction between many cultures…
In his germinal 1791 account Travels , William Bartram recorded the natural world he saw around him but, rather incredibly, omitted any reference to events of the American Revolution. This…
Berry Greenwood Benson
Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated with Lee’s army to its surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and missed little of the…
These essays focus on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open…
This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the…
This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields who shed new light…
Brings together essays that seek to expand our understanding of the role of government in: shaping cities and metropolitan regions; consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl…
