Considered one of the best regimental histories of the civil war, Chamberlin records the actions and characters of his regiment, the 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Journalist Franklin B. Sanborn offers a biographical account of his friend John Brown, and includes in his work correspondence between Brown and other prominent figures of his time.
William Still, clerk for the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society for fourteen years, publishes an account of the Underground Railroad based on his personal notes.
This book is a memoir of a Southern minister that was sent to jail and sentenced to be executed because of his abolitionist views. He manages to barely escape and becomes a refugee from Mississippi. He was initially targeted because of his...
Theodore Parker publishes the proceedings of his trial, having been brought before the courts because of his vocal resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law.
The book is a detailed account of the origins of slavery in ancient history through the introduction of Christian slavery to North Africa, the African slave trade from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, the Middle Passage, and slavery in the...
Ebenezer Denny gives an account of his decade and a half in uniform, from his Revolutionary War service on through the early years of the new United States. This edited volume includes a large selection of Denny 19s letters and also contains his...
The divisional quartermaster under General Sheridan, Horatio Collins King keeps a personal journal during the last year of the Civil War, recording cavalry activities in the Shenandoah Valley, and later the adjustments made in returning to civilian...
Moncure Conway presents his long-planned biography of the misunderstood Anglo-American revolutionary and fellow deist Thomas Paine, a man Conway had admired for decades.
George Baylor, at first with the 2nd Virginia Infantry and later with the 12th Virginia Cavalry, recounts his four years of service during the Civil War, including his time as a prisoner of war and as commander of his own cavalry unit.
Moncure Conway presents his long-planned biography of the misunderstood Anglo-American revolutionary and fellow deist Thomas Paine, a man Conway had admired for decades.