The intriguing story of a nineteenth-century socialite, Sallie Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs (1827-1896). An entertaining and informative glimpse into the world of antebellum privilege in a border state, as…

Some thirty years after the initial publication of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters in 1721, the author hinted at the presence of ‘a secret, and somehow unnoticed, chain’ tying together this entertaining…