...P. Djèlí Clark and Justina Ireland rewrite the American Civil War, calling attention to discrimination for Black young women and showing reader this momentous event though the eyes of young, Black female characters. In fact, the three prose worksselected from these authors are populated primarily...

...This chapter examines the roles of the delegates of the Mississippi Secession Convention during the American Civil War. Even before seceding, the state's inhabitants were ready for the upcoming war against the Union, as the majority of their economy relied on slavery. The same sentiment ran through...

...This chapter argues that the kinship between Faulkner and Miguel de Cervantes is not primarily a question of European “influence” but of dense cultural intertextuality and translatability. Spanish readers of Faulkner’s time found in his fictional treatment of the American Civil War a way of dealing...

...This chapter details John Roy Lynch's experience when the American Civil War came. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis had the reputation of being kind to their slaves. It was under Mrs. Davis's tutelage and influence that Lynch became attached to the Protestant Episcopal church and he was to be confirmed...