Follows the amazing lives of Ida and Isidor Straus--who rose to become the the owners of Macy's Department Store in New York--including their humble beginnings, experiences with anti-Semitism and unti
Neither side's army had an office in charge of chaplains, so information about the some 4,000 who served during the Civil War was scattered and nearly lost before researchers began search and recovery
From wherever Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) is read, scholars of philosophy comment on the three works he published pseudonymously. Their topics include paratextualism in Prefaces and contemporary liter
This volume gathers eight essays on African-American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois from the spring 2001 conference, W.E.B. Do Bois and Frantz Fanon: Post-colonial linkages and Trans-Atlantic Receptions.
Georgia's music history is diverse in that it covers gospel singer Thomas Dorsey, soul singer James Brown, opera singer Jessye Norman, country singer Alan Jackson, folk singer Hedy West and symphony a
Two things this book is not: a guide to handling snakes, and yet another academic account of exotic backwoods practices right here in the heart of the civilization. Morrow is a native Appalachian, pas
This biography describes President Carter's life from his early years through his education, military service, his peanut farm business, and his political career, from state senator in 1962, govern
The political corruption, gambling, and murder that nearly brought down an Alabama town during the Depression. In the first chronological and gripping narrative of the events that crippled Phenix C
Cobb did not live to see the end of the War Between the States, but his influence was felt at both the theoretical and pragmatic levels throughout it, and perhaps even long after. McCash, (formerly hi
