Books by Paul D. Escott

Focuses on the challenge that the South's widespread political ideals presented to Jefferson Davis and on the way growing class resentments among citizens in the countryside affected the war effort. The book offers a fresh look at the pivotal role that strong leadership plays in the establishment of a new nation.

Spain and the United States both experienced extremely bloody and divisive civil wars that left social and emotional wounds, many of which still endure today. In Uncommonly Savage, award-winning historian Paul Escott considers the impact of internecine violence on memory and ideology, politics, and process of reconciliation.

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort.

Part of a series which examines the complex relationship between the US government, the US military, and the civilian population in wartime and peacetime, this work analyzes the militarization of life in the Confederacy. It probes the relationships between military commanders, legislators, and Jefferson Davis and his administration.