Sally Van Doren s imaginative new collection offers bold and beguiling poems. Uttered in intense lyrical bursts that reflect the poet s command of language both familiar and strange, the visually dram
Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the city s thrivi
In Slaves for Hire, John J. Zaborney overturns long-standing beliefs about slave labor in the antebellum South. Previous scholarship has viewed slave hiring as an aberration a modified form of slavery
Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25,000 casualties but no clear victor. The staggering number of kill
From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mardi Gras Bayou in between, avid writer Clare D Artois Leeper offers her own alphabet of places in Louisiana, both past and present. Louisiana Place Names includes 893 ent
"In The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers, Robert Paul Lamb delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingwa
During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the pejorative term scalawag referred to white southerners loyal to the Republican Party. With the onset of the federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, scal
Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer s sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory and landscape, where too often it's safer to stay blind."
More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward s landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an essential text on the southern past. Today, a southern burden still ex
Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by three authors. Identifying a line of writing from Ra
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans s French Quarter attracted artists and writers with low rent, a faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square became the center
In Gendered Politics in the Modern South, Keira V. Williams uses the Susan Smith case to analyze what she calls the new sexism found in the agenda of the budding neo-conservative movement of the 1990s
No Taint of Compromise highlights the motives and actions of those who played instrumental if not central roles in antislavery politics -- those who undertook the yeoman's work of organizing parties,
The late nineteenth century was a period of tremendous upheaval in American race relations. But while studies abound documenting the changes in relations between whites and African Americans in the no
Hans J. Morgenthau, a founding proponent of political realism, remains the central figure in international relations scholarship of the twentieth century. His book Politics among Nations literally def
A Sacrificial Zinc impels the reader on a journey into the nature of place. Written out of a vanished suburban landscape, Matthew Cooperman’s book — part navigational trope, part metaphor of embodimen
As women of different eras, cultural backgrounds, racial identities, and places of origin, Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison would appear to have little in common. But in her study of these two seem
More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the "Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and General Longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation
A guide to the identification, selection, and culture of more than a thousand of the most popular ornamental plants grown in the U.S. includes eight hundred full-color photographs and information on t
On a pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Nepal, a group of American women trek into the Himalayas, beginning and ending in Kathmandu. They ascend, turn back just short of reaching their destination because o
