In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for
Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks—slave and free—made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough’s settlers in 1779. From these early years throu
During this period, five states joined the Union?Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska and Colorado?and the population reached nearly forty million. The westward movement was given a boost by the co
"What makes Rosalynn Carter so interesting and her memoir so compelling is her awareness that she is part of a long and distinguished historical tradition: the southern lady in politics . . . What oug
Collects short stories by contemporary Arab American writers including Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Joseph Geha, Mohja Kahf, Pauline Kaldas, and Frances Khirallah Noble.
A vocal group without peer, The Browns were central artists in the changing sound of country and American popular music at mid-century. They were part of major changes in the entertainment business an
In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated, Idris Ali paints in vibrant detail the story of cultures and hearts divided, of lost lands, impossible dreams, and abandoned lives.
