Paul David Escott: 2 books
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or...
The Battlefield and Beyond
Essays on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.
Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...