Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists

In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and storie

This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth cent

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours