US Civil War
The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family
Like most American schools at the time, mine spent a lot of time on the Civil War, but concentrated on…
The Road from Chapel Hill
The Road from Chapel Hill offers readers a fascinating and blessedly stereotype-free drama about life in divided North Carolina during…
House Divided
The Currain family saga begins in 1783 with Tony Currain, and moves through over 1,000 pages past the time of…
Dearest Enemy
It’s 1860 and Suzanna LeGrande, a pampered Southern girl à la Scarlett O’Hara, is living happily in Virginia with her…
Hearts of Stone
Editors' choice
Fifteen-year-old Hannah finds herself the head of her family when her Cumberland Mountain home is torn asunder by the ravages…
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman are universally recognized as the most distinguished Union officers of the American Civil…
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The title, a phrase from Lincoln’s 1861 inaugural address, haunts the brutal Civil War that followed. The phrase also describes…
The Judas Field
Living a sad, lonely and alcoholic life in Mississippi in 1885, Cass Wakefield is asked to accompany a widow of…
Scarlett Rules: When Life Gives You Green Velvet Curtains, Make a Green Velvet Dress
Advice books don’t really seem to have been Scarlett O’Hara’s thing. She never was all that good at taking advice,…
A Reason To Live
During the Civil War, Laurel Covey nurses young Confederate soldiers. In a journal, she records their dying words and wishes,…
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