She went by many names—Mary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and more—but history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the
A dual biography and a fresh approach to the always compelling subject of these two iconic leaders?how they fashioned a distinctly American war, and a lasting peace, that fundamentally changed our nat
Based largely on primary documents, Davis (history, Virginia Tech) has written a biography of the friendship between Toombs and Stephens, presenting it as a microcosm of the Confederacy. He follows th
When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida— what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe’s endless
