Union and confidence: The 1860s

by Harold Melvin Hyman

Hard Cover; Near Mint; NEAR MINT brown leatherette binding, origional publishers slipcase. Brown endpapers, 302pp., deckel edges, illus. A look at one of our darkest periods. Internally clean. A NEAR MINT Copy.

302 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

A specialist in U.S. constitutional and legal history and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Harold M. Hyman was Rice University’s William P. Hobby Professor of History from 1968 until 1997. Hyman received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1952 and taught at Earlham College, Arizona State University, UCLA, and the University of Illinois before moving to Rice.

Dr. Hyman was a Ford Foundation Fellow, a Senior Fulbright Lecturer, an Organization of American Historians Lecturer, judge for the Pulitzer, Littleton-Griswold (AHA), and other prizes, NEH reviewer, and past president of the American Society for Legal History. He also worked closely with the Texas Bar Association’s Law-Related Education Project, and served on the committees of several professional societies.