Of Times and Race

You can purchase this book from the University of Mississippi Press.

Contributors include seven of John Marszalek’s former Ph.D. students (Mike Ballard, Mark Cheathem, Tom Cockrell, Jim Humphreys, Stephen Michot, Horace Nash, and Tim Smith), with noted historian Edna Greene Medford providing a concluding chapter that contextualizes and analyzes the essays. The essays focus on a variety of topics, including slavery and southern plantation life, Unionism during the Civil War, the Civil War in Louisiana, the Vicksburg Civil War campaign, the Shiloh national military park, African-American boxers, and southern historiography.