"Drawing on rich, previously untapped sources, Stephen V. Ash tells an absorbing tale of the city's diverse inhabitants. Civilians and soldiers, slaves and masters, refugees and prisoners, clerks and factory workers, preachers and prostitutes, patriots and draft-dodgers, the sic…
As an idealistic and wealthy young man, John B. Prentis expressed outrage over slavery, but as a businessman began trading in slaves in order to finance business ventures and, in so doing, abandoned his earlier belief in justice to pursue wealth through human exploitation. His l…
"Best known for his crusade against lynching in the 1880s, John Mitchell Jr. was also involved in a number of civil rights crusades that seem more contemporary to the 1950s and 1960s than the turn of that century. He led a boycott against segregated streetcars in 1904 and fought…
"Best known for his crusade against lynching in the 1880s, John Mitchell Jr. was also involved in a number of civil rights crusades that seem more contemporary to the 1950s and 1960s than the turn of that century. He led a boycott against segregated streetcars in 1904 and fought…
Traces the events which occured in the final days of the Civil War and discusses how these events changed the history of the United States.
