Drawing on accounts of people's everyday experience, demonstrates that no one group was able to maintain control of the social structure in the Virginia city du

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations

With three railroads and a canal passing through the city, Lynchburg, Virginia, was a major hospital center during the Civil War, far from the remote battlefiel

The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class

Take Care of the Living assesses the short- and long-term impact of the war on Confederate veteran families of all classes in Pittsylvania County and Danville,