New This Week: September 23rd

We have two powerful new histories hitting the shelves this week. Cassius Marcellus Clay by Anne E. Marshall offers a biography of an antislavery slaveholder and Torn Asunder by Erik Pani explores republican crises and civil wars in the US and Mexico. Learn more about these new titles below or explore everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page.

Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall

Civil War America Series

Explore the life of a colorful, complicated American reformer.

“In Marshall’s capable hands, Cassius M. Clay emerges from beneath layers of myth and misremembrance as both a defiant individualist and an emblem of many white Americans’ ideas about slavery in the Civil War era.”—Michael E. Woods, author of Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglass, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

“Handsome and pugnacious, a man of conviction and contradictions, Kentucky slaveholder and antislavery politician Cassius M. Clay desperately needed a new biography—and this is it! In this deeply researched book, Anne Marshall deftly renders Clay’s dramatic and important life story for a modern audience.”—Jonathan W. White, author of A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House

Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867 by Erika Pani

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

Dive into a sweeping story of civil wars, political crises, and the deep connections between the conflicts that remade Mexico and the United States in the mid-19th century.

“With extraordinary insight, Erika Pani has written a bold, exciting interpretation of the entangled history of the American hemisphere’s foremost republics as each struggled to defend its embattled nation.” –Don H. Doyle, author of The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War

“Torn Asunder is the most compelling, subtle, and convincing history of the two nineteenth-century North American republics ever written in English.”—Gregory Downs, University of California, Davis

“Brilliant, engaging. . . . A fresh and revealing look at the conflicts, parallel trajectories, intertwined developments, and intricate relations that spurred two decades of momentous change in the United States and Mexico.”—Paolo Riguzzi, research professor, Center for Historical Studies, El Colegio de México