All Stories

  1. The stormy present: conservativism and the problem of slavery in northern politics, 1846–1865
  2. “A Typical Negro”: Gordon, Peter, Vincent Colyer, and the Story behind Slavery's Most Famous Photograph
  3. A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
  4. Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
  5. “Hard Times Is the Cry”
  6. Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front (review)
  7. Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina by Judkin Browning (review)
  8. Moments of Despair
  9. Most Horrible of Crimes Suicide in the Old South
  10. The Self-Slaying Epidemic Suicide after the Civil War
  11. Sacredness of Obligations: Debt in Antebellum North Carolina
  12. Conclusion
  13. Introduction