Books by James W. Silver

This is a book about an insurrection in modern America, more particularly, about the social and historical background of that insurrection. It is written by a Mississippian who is a historian, and who, on September 30, 1962, witnessed the long night of riot that exploded on the campus of the University of Mississippi at Oxford.

A study of the church's role in bringing on secession and promoting the Civil War, by the author of Mississippi: The Closed Society.