Slavery, Race and American History

by John David Smith

2015 · Routledge

These essays introduce the complexities of researching and analyzing race. This book focuses on problems confronted while researching, writing and interpreting race and slavery, such as conflict between ideological perspectives, and changing interpretations of the questions.

Look Homeward

by David Herbert Donald

2002 · Harvard University Press

A portrait of an American novelist examining the forces of his life that were intertwined with his writing and the academic and literary worlds of which he was a part.