The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses [...]
From five hundred family letters, award-winning historian Martha Hodes re-creates the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman - Eunice Connolly's family divided over the American Civil War and she later married across the colour line. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of Am[...]
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 Southerne[...]