Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina’s Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Bea

The Port Royal Experiment builds on classic scholarship to present not a historical narrative but a study of what is now called development and nation-building.

This book offers a firsthand account of life in Port Royal, South Carolina, during the Civil War. The letters contained in this volume were written by Union sol

The largest offensive of the Civil War, involving army, navy, and marine forces, the Peninsula Campaign has inspired many history books. No previous work, howev