An important primary source for eighty years, Lee’s Dispatches is now once again available to Civil War scholars, students, and enthusiasts. When first published in 1914, these letters, written between…

First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor whites, and slaves…

During the Civil War centennial, four scholars of the conflict gathered to debate and commemorate this transforming event in American history. Originally published in 1964, this text assembles their conference…