This book charts the history of civil litigation in America from the 17th century to today, using key cases that illustrate the central theme of lawsuits in different periods of…

An integrated set of essays focusing on the problems confronted by historians researching, writing, and interpreting race and slavery from the late nineteenth century until 1953. They consider historical method…

When Abraham Lincoln issued his final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, he not only freed the slaves in the Confederate states but also invited freed slaves and free persons…

One of the most controversial historians of the American South, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, has been the object of intense scholarly interest for nearly seventy-five years.

In 1863, as the Civil War raged, the escaped slave, abolitionist, and novelist William Wells Brown identified two groups most harmful to his race. The first and most relentless, he…

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African-American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Alexander’s traces the development of Du Bois’…

First published 40 years ago, this work draws on primary sources to describe how the the Civil War brought south Louisiana’s sugar cane industry to the brink of extinction and…

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922).