This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salz

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

The Lower Mississippi Valley is more than just a distinct geographical region of the United States; it was central to the outcome of the Civil War and the destr

The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.