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Offers a thorough biography of George Washington Carver, including in-depth details of his relationships with friends, colleagues, supporters, and those he loved. In pursuit of the man behind the historical figure, Christina Vella discovers an unassuming intellectual with a quirky sense of humour, striking eccentricities, and unwavering faith.

Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that he became the first African American commissioned as a combat officer in the United States military. Gordon Rhea's biography restores Swails's remarkable legacy.

Regarded as one of the most vocal and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote's unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne fills this gap in his examination of the life of this gifted and volatile public figure.

A champion of the underprivileged, John U. Monro embodied both the virtues of the Greatest Generation and the idealism of the civil rights era. His teaching career spanned more than four decades, and, as biographer Toni-Lee Capossela demonstrates, his influence reached well beyond his lifetime.

Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the least remembered. In this exhaustively researched biography, Benjamin Justesen rescues from obscurity the fascinating story of this compelling figure's life and accomplishments.

Legendary Southern Baptist missionary Charlotte "Lottie" Moon played a pivotal role in revolutionising southern civil society. This book captures the influence and culminating effect of one woman's personal, spiritual, and civic calling.

Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877), a principal architect of the South's "Lost Cause" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals. In Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause, Terry Barnhart sheds new light on this provocative figure.

In 1737, Englishman William Stephens sailed to Georgia to serve as colonial secretary to its British Board of Trustees. His reports on the condition of Georgia impressed the board, and they appointed him president of the colony. Julie Anne Sweet uses the story of Stephens's life to illuminate vital details in the history of early Georgia.

Offers the first published biography of this overlooked leader, establishing him as the most prominent Tennessean in the Confederacy and a dominating participant in nineteenth-century Tennessee politics.

A longtime columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer, Cornelia Battle Lewis earned a national reputation in the 1920s and 1930s. In his retelling of her life, Leidholdt chronicles the history of North Carolina from the 1920s to the 1950s, as industrialization and racial integration began to tear at the region's conservative fabric.

Much existing literature about Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder contains incorrect information. In this exhaustive biography that reflects more than thirty years of painstaking archival research, Thomas Settles remedies the many factual inaccuracies surrounding this enigmatic man and his military career.

Offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in American history, David Durham explores the ideological and political journey of Henry Washington Hilliard, a southern politician whose opposition to secession placed him at odds with many of his peers.

In this sweeping biography, Elaine Breslaw examines the life of Dr Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756), a highly educated Scottish physician who emigrated to Maryland in 1738. From an elite European family, Hamilton was immediately confronted with the relatively primitive social milieu of the New World.

Drawing on a new and definitive edition of John Marshall's papers, R. Kent Newmyer combines engaging narrative with new historiographical insights in a fresh interpretation of Marshall's life in the law.

Though remembered largely as Andrew Jackson's nephew, Andrew Jackson Donelson was a significant figure in nineteenth-century America: a politician, planter, diplomat, newspaper editor, and vice-presidential candidate. In this biography, Mark Cheathem explores both Donelson's political contributions and his complex relationship with Andrew Jackson.

Offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Highly readable and thoroughly researched, Mary Gorton McBride's absorbing biography illuminates in dramatic fashion the life and times of a unique Louisianan.

Hinton Rowan Helper gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South, an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy. In this intellectual and cultural biography of Helper, David Brown provides a fresh and nuanced portrait of this self-styled reformer.

Dennis Boman's full-scale account of Hamilton Gamble's life tells the little-known story of a prominent frontier lawyer who became chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and boldly dissented in the infamous Dred Scott decision.

The seven novels of North Carolina writer Bernice Kelly Harris were published to international acclaim in the 1940s, and her plays were produced on television in the 1950s. Yet, despite her success she was virtually unknown by the time of her death. In this compelling biography Valerie Raleigh Yow brings Harris back into the spotlight.

Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with an array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan's multifaceted personal networks in both the South and the North.

This biography details the political and social career of William Henry Drayton, an ambitious, wealthy lowcountry planter and zealous patriot leader, at the centre of revolutionary activity in South Carolina from 1774 until his death five years later.

A noted southern Baptist preacher, educator, and secessionist, Basil Manly was selected to serve as chaplain to the provisional Confederate Congress. In this, the first full biography of Manly, A. James Fuller analyses the life and career of this working minister, illustrating the central role of religion in the formation of the Confederacy.

Through an examination of Ossian Bingley Hart's life and career, Canter Brown offers new insight into the political problems of the day, the role of Unionism in Deep South politics in particular, and enriches our understanding of the complexities of Reconstruction.

This biography, based on examination of the Ellender Papers and extensive research in other primary and secondary sources, including interviews with people who knew Ellender during various stages of his lengthy career, makes an important contribution to our understanding of Louisiana and national politics during much of this century.

First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams' P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as "the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy's always dramatic, often perplexing" general (Chicago Tribune).

Offers the first critical biography of the Confederate general who commanded the largest theatre of the Civil War, the Trans-Mississippi Department, and who held the same important command post longer than any other officer on either side.

New Orleans-born Stanhope Bayne-Jones was one of the pivotal figures in the modernization of American medicine. Through his life story Albert B. Cowdrey's War and Healing dramatizes the growth of American medicine from a provincial and amateurish state into a major national endeavor. Cowdrey shows the diversity and wide-ranging impact of Bayne-Jones's career. A brilliant student at Johns Hopkins, and a protege of William Welch, Bayne-Jones became in turn dean of Yale Medical School, a foundation head, a general in the army's Medical Corps, president of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, director of the army's medical research program, and a member of the Surgeon General's Commission on Smoking and Health. Both a unique and a representative figure, Bayne-Jones learned from his military experience in two wars that the fundamental business of medicine is health, not disease, and became a strong advocate for preventive medicine. He developed a broad, idealized conception of the future of medicine as a discipline free of political control, organized collectively, devoted to the preservation of health, and divorced from entrepreneurial passions. Bayne-Jones was a complex, fascinating man and physician. Gifted with great intelligence and considerable charm, he spent much of his life in the Ivy League, the halls of government, and the great northeastern cities. Cowdrey explores the tensions between Bayne-Jones's southern roots and national aspirations, between his deep commitment to his family and heritage and his restless, driving ambition. Bayne-Jones's career forms still another chapter, logical and yet unexpected, in the family saga that will be familiar to many readers throughThe Children of Pride.

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. According to biographer Andrew Black, scholars from various fields have never completely captured this broadly talented antebellum figure.

In Moses Levy of Florida, C.S. Monaco offers a radical reappraisal of this complex and formerly underestimated figure, bringing to light for the first time the full and fascinating extent of his remarkable contributions to nineteenth-century America.