Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, copied by an anonymous monk. This document is at least 1,450 years old, possibly dating to the first century, but it has never been properly translated and decoded--until now. Working with an expert team of translators and digital imaging experts, the authors provide the first ever translation from Syriac into English of this unique document that tells...

A personal narrative of the Civil War written between 1861 and 1865. It captures the urgency and nuance of the period in an epic with commentary on race, status, and power within a nation divided.

Presents the 1861-65 diaries of Mary Chesnut, an aristocratic woman from South Carolina, which give a firsthand look at well-to-do civilian life in the Confederacy.

Based on the diary of Mary Chestnut. A personal account of the South's headlong plunge to ruin.

The Civil War's most celebrated journal, written during the conflict by the wife of Confederate General James Chesnut, Jr.