Every schoolchild knows that Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederacy. Most adults know little more. Who was this enigmatic man - reportedly aloof but temperamental, ravaged in health but…

BCR's Shelf2Life American Civil War Collection is a unique and exciting collection of pre-1923 titles focusing on the American Civil War and the people and events surrounding it. From memoirs…

JEFFERSON DAVIS WAS A PROPONENT of the high road to emancipation. He looked to the day in which slaves would be prepared to live within and participate in a democratic…

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: Caxton Publishing House Subjects: United States Confederate States of America Presidents History / United States / Civil War Period…

New in paperback: From a distinguished historian of the American South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of the Civil War. 25 illustrations. 13…

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The North won the Civil War, but it took a Jefferson Davis to reunite the nation. It's 1876, the last days of postwar Reconstruction in the South, when a nineteen-year-old…

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