We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In "Wild Dog Dreaming, " Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethic
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets of the Victorian era. Compiled from over 100 private and institutional collections, this fourth volume of Rossetti's let
The architectural history of Texas spans more than 300 years of European settlement and 10,000 years of habitation by native peoples. The incredibly diverse natural landscape and equally varied built
This book traces the development of the United States from the 1760s to the consolidation of the federal government during the 1790s. The author argues that the creation of the American republic was a
Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocrat of twenty-five, worried deeply about the future of France as well as his own fate in his native country, which had just experienced its second revolution in
Kierner (history, U. of North Carolina-Charlotte) tells of a 1793 case in which Richard Randolph of Bizarre, Virginia, was accused of helping his wife's sister terminate a pregnancy that he had also i
While the Age of Revolution has long been associated with the French and American Revolutions, increasing attention is being paid to the Haitian Revolution as the third great event in the making of th
Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. InReclaiming Nostalgia, Jennifer Ladin
The third of the not-yet-complete set of four volumes covers years in which Rossetti lost several family members including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew and several close friends.
Rossetti (1830-1894) has begun to be recognized as one of the major poets not just one of the major women poets of the Victorian era, making publication of her letters an important effort. When comple
The second of a four volume collection covers the years in which Victorian poet Rossetti had established a strong literary reputation but suffered a slew of personal tragedies, including the loss of s
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the PresentEdited by Joanne V. GabbinThe Furious Flower Conference of 1994 represented the largest gathering of African American
George Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
