In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals

An Examination of American Ideals Subtitles often fail to live up to their lofty hyperbole, but that applied to this essay collection is right on the mark – or rather the nine essays that make up the volume are right on the mark in their individual and collective efforts to tackle these...

Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia

Understanding the Relationship Between Homefront and Battlefield One of the most durable debates regarding the course of the Civil War is whether or not a loss of will among the southern populace was central to Confederate defeat. Aaron Sheehan-Dean enters that fray by examining a crucial...

Southern Appalachia and the South

This volume of the Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association explores the intersections between Southerners and Southern Appalachians and the theoretical and practical implication of regional identity, marginality, ethnic commonalities, and comparative perspectives during the 19th and 20th centuries