Drew Gilpin Faust: 4 books
Confederate Women and Yankee Men
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged...
James Henry Hammond and the Old South
A Design for Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1985
From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman's troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and partisan of slavery, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and...
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing...
Mothers of Invention
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the...