Martha Hodes: 3 books
by Martha Hodes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which white Southerners...
by Martha Hodes
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
A finalist for the Lincoln Prize, The Sea Captain's Wife "comes surprisingly, and movingly, alive" (Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly).
Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved...
by Martha Hodes
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
A historian examines how everyday people reacted to the president’s assassination in this “highly original, lucidly written book” (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom).
The news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender,...