In England’s civil war, Brenda Rickman Vantrease finds a mesmerizing story
…any true role in the war. Lucy Hay, the book’s second protagonist, is also in a state of flux. She has only recently returned the royal children to their mother,…
Preston Lauterbach’s Bluff City looks at the strange legacy of a civil-rights figure who worked as an FBI spy
…posturing of its inhabitants. Bluff City’s subject is Ernest Withers, the polite and charismatic Memphis photographer who covered crucial moments of the civil-rights era while also acting as a spy…
In The Thin Light of Freedom, Edward L. Ayers reconsiders the Civil War through two communities on opposite sides
…seemed settled is undergoing radical revision, with sometimes violent conflicts over the placement of Confederate monuments erupting alongside the opening of new historic exhibits—like the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama—designed…
Brenda Rickman Vantrease takes readers back to the Civil War—the English one
…is called to fight for the doomed King Charles. In conveying historical details of the period, Vantrease seamlessly weaves together the factual and the fictional, the political and personal. For…
Jared A. Brock’s The Road to Dawn tells the story of the real “Uncle Tom”
…a life-altering conversion to Christianity and began to preach. But whenever he found happiness, adversity was also close at hand. Riley’s drinking and mismanagement eventually led him to send Henson…
