Strange Journey of the Confede (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780881466263)

THE STRANGE JOURNEY OF THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION is a collection of seventeen articles and essays on topics in Georgia and Southern history. Individual chapters are arranged by era and cover subjects ranging from The Great Yazoo Fraud of the 1790s, to Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Treasure of the 1860s, to the Reign of Terror visited by the Ku Klux Klan in Macon of the 1920s. While academic, the books varying topics are aimed at readers with a general interest in the intriguing and often convoluted history of the South. Some articles focus on events, others on people (e.g. Gutzon Borglum or Eli Whitney), and still others on more controversial topics, such as the place of The Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind in modern society. The authors writing style is one that promotes relaxed recreational reading, treating each topic as an unfolding story as the chapter progresses. The Appendix contains A Short Practical Guide to Historical Research for Writers.

Author: William Rawlings
ISBN-10: 0881466263
ISBN-13: 9780881466263
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2017
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d