The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additi
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions a
Cemis are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Tainos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or m
The exhaustive, definitive study of Southern attempts to gain international support for the Confederacy by leveraging the cotton supply for European intervention during the Civil War. Using previously
For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the
Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age recounts Twain’s fascination with, and participation in, America’s spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century and demonstrates how his writing
At the Moon's Inn, first published in 1941, provides a fictional account of De Soto's famous Spanish expedition to La Florida and through the southeastern United States between 1539 and 1543. The nove
This work explores Edith Wharton’s career–long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts&md
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre sc
In Africa's Forest and Jungle is the memoir of Richard Henry Stone, a Civil War era Southern Baptist missionary, who served in what is now Nigeria during the late 1850s and again during the first year
A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field—on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction.From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consiste
A classic work detailing an 11,000-year period of human culture within the largest river system of North America. The earliest recorded description of the Central Mississip
A fully annotated edition of a classic work detailing the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the Contact Period.James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the so
A look at the antebellum history and architecture of the little-known sugar industry of East Florida. ? From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was conc
Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental val
Muriel Gillick draws from a remarkable set of primary source materials, including letters, telegrams, and police records to relate the story of two teenage refugees during World War II. Once They H
The late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries were an extremely turbulent time for southeastern American Indian groups. This volume examines issues of culture contact and social identity
This classic report originally appeared as a series of articles in the Nation between July 8, 1865, and April 11, 1866. Dennett traveled in seven states—Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georg
This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.This collection of 15 essays provides a fully
