Book of the Week


Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South
by Michael T. Bernath

Now available in paperback, hardcover, & e-book

"Finally puts to rest the notion that the Confederacy was an intellectual wasteland and that Confederates had nothing to say aside from their rebel yell."
--Journal of American History
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Elizabeth Keckley in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”

Spielberg based more than 40 of his characters on historical figures; included in this group is Elizabeth Keckley, an enslaved woman whose 1868 book (Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House) UNC Press and the UNC Library republished last year through the DocSouth Books program. [...]

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