The Southern Past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history.

“An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.”—Stephen Sears, Boston Globe The Southern past has prove

An author of the Valley of the Shadow Project presents a series of essays on the American Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South to consider

Ayers gives readers the Civil War on an intimate scale. His masterful narrative conveys the coming of war and its bloody encounters through the eyes of those wh

Winner of the Lincoln Prize A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective. At the crux of America’s history stand