Chronicling four decisive months in 1861, the unique story of the birth of a nation within a nation examines the leaders of the Confederacy--from those who wanted war to those who wanted reconciliation--and their struggle to form a southern nation.

A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy

History

Davis, William C.

Americas

Free Press

Describes Davis's childhood in Mississippi, his West Point experience, his ascent from Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce to President of the Confederacy, and beyond

Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Harpercollins

Examines the social and cultural history of the Alabama/Mississippi frontier using the Natchez Trace Indian trail as the pathway

A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontier

Based on his exhaustive research and unprecedented access to archives in Mexico, a historian strips away the myths surrounding Davey Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis, and the Alamo to reveal their role in the development of the West. National ad/promo.

Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

Describes Davis's childhood in Mississippi, his West Point experience, his ascent from Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce to President of the Confederacy, and beyond

Perennial

Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle.

Harper-perennial

Jean and Pierre Laffite's lives were intertwined with the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, the era from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812. Labeled as corsairs and buccaneers for methods that bordered on piracy, the brothers ran a privateering cooperative that provided contraband goods to a hungry market and made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Later they became important members of a syndicate in New Orleans that included lawyers, bankers, merchants, and corrupt U.S. officials. But this allegiance didn't stop them from becoming paid Spanish spies, handing over information about the syndicate's plans and selling out their own associates. In 1820 the Laffites disappeared into the fog of history from which they had emerged, but not before becoming folk heroes in French Louisiana and making their names synonymous with piracy and intrigue on the Gulf.

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World Of The Corsairs Of The Gulf

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

By February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of its army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled to achieve their own differing visions: Jefferson Davis, autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost, and his secretary of war, General John C. Breckinridge, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he so loved. William C. Davis traces the astounding journey of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, as they fled Richmond by train, then by mule, then on foot. Using original research, he narrates, with dramatic style and clear historical accuracy, the futile quarrels of the two men as they continued their flight from their eventual fate.

An Honorable Defeat ARC

Harcourt

When Britain ceded the territory of West Floridaâ what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Floridaâto Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europeâs endless territorial contests. So it was left to the settlers, bristling at Spanish misrule, to establish a foothold in the area. Enter the Kemper brothers, whose vigilante justice culminated in a small band of American residents drafting a constitution and establishing a new government. By the time President Madison sent troops to occupy the territory, assert U.S. authority under the Louisiana Purchase, and restore order, West Floridaâs settlers had already announced their independence, becoming our countryâs shortest-lived rogue ârepublic.âÂ Meticulously researched and populated with the colorful characters that make American history a joy, this is the story of a young country testing its power on the global stage and a lost chapter in how the frontier spirit came to define American character. The first treatment of this little-known historical moment, The Rogue Republic shows how hardscrabble frontiersmen and gentleman farmers planted the seeds of civil war, marked the dawn of Manifest Destiny, and laid the groundwork for the American empire.

The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History

At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the U.S. Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who shopped for contraband at their well-publicized auctions, the brothers became important members of a filibustering syndicate that included lawyers, bankers, merchants, and corrupt U.S. officials. But this allegiance didn't stop the Laffites from becoming paid Spanish spies, disappearing into the fog of history after selling out their own associates. William C. Davis uncovers the truth about two men who made their names synonymous with piracy and intrigue on the Gulf.

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf

Mariner Books

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A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour

A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontier

Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour

Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World Of The Corsairs Of The Gulf

An Honorable Defeat ARC

The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf