Fitzgerald’s Mentors is a fresh and compelling study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s intellectual friendship with Edmund Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy. Fitzgerald was shaped through his engagement
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America recounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deaths through no fault of their own: Vaudine Maddox in 1933
In his 2004 book Game Work, Ken S. McAllister proposed a rigorous critical methodology for the discussion of the “video game complex”—the games themselves, their players, the industry that produces th
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
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: &ldquo
The first comprehensive study of the meaning of pottery as a social activity in coastal North Carolina.Pottery types, composed of specific sets of attributes, have long been defined for various period
The first comprehensive study of the meaning of pottery as a social activity in coastal North Carolina.Pottery types, composed of specific sets of attributes, have long been defined for various period
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
Moundville, located on the Black Warrior River in west-central Alabama, is one of the best known and most intensively studied archaeological sites in North America. Yet, in spite of all these investig
Clear-Cutting Eden examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940s.Christopher Rieger studies t
How can we effectively interpret and present one culture to another without stereotypes or over-simplifications? What is the best way to present an authoritative version of a national heritage without
A belief in progress is a fundamental ethos in American history and culture. “The Assault on Progress” probes American literary works that challenge the prevailing notion of technology as a manifestat
All students of the past bump into what seem to be impenetrable walls and are left looking longingly beyond the barrier for the lore that seems hopelessly lost.?This book is an argument that all that
The legacy of the Negro, free and slave, in the War for Southern Independence, says Brewer (d. 1974), has too often been ignored by the historian. He documents the extensive involvement of the Virgini
"Soto is a clever and convincing reader of modernist prose and makes a fair case for the value of the generational model.?? [His book] beats notions of 'ages' or 'epochs', because it is organic and br
Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred
"In this little volume Gaustad has provided us with fine primary source material on a little-known Baptist of the 17th century. [Obadiah Holmes's] document itself is of considerable interest, sin
A noted critic addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry. Silence, as Susan M. Schultz argues here, is an intellectual and aesthetic force, largely unacknowledged
A collection of eleven essays explores tourism as a defining force in southern history by focusing on particular influences and localities, such as New Orleans, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Hilton Head Isl
This volume evolved from a research conference on the English Language in the Southern United States sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and held at Columbia, South Carolina.
This Happy Land charts the history of the Jewish community in Charleston, South Carolina, from the arrival of the first Jewish settlers in the 1690s until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Charle
This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period.For most Native American peoples of the Southeast, almost two centur
Nicaragua’s Mosquito Shore provides a general history of eastern Nicaragua from the time of the first British entry in 1633 to the present. The territory is populated chiefly by Mosquito Indians, who
The popular image of Henry W. Grady is that of a champion of the postbellum South, a region that would forgive the North for defeating it and would mobilize its own many resources for hones business a
This volume argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870. As they formed their pioneer museums, these men were guided
This first full-length study of Susan Howe illuminates the historical, autobiographical, and theoretical influences that underlie the work of this enigmatic and important contemporary American poet.
This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century
This consequential book takes a hard, systematic look at the depiction of blacks, whites, and race relations in Mark Twain's classic novel, raising questions about its canonical status in American lit
This collection of thought-provoking essays addresses the complex issues of Ulster Scots history and ethnic identity by viewing them from a transatlantic and comparative perspective. The 11 essays in
Covering 19 years of excavations, this volume provides an invaluable collection of Moore's pioneering archaeological investigations along Alabama's waterways.In 1996, The University of Alabama Press p
This history of Alabama's coal miners documents the struggle not only between labor and management but also between interracial unionism and white supremacy. Much of Alabama's labor history is written
This compilation of Moore's publications on western and central Florida provides all of his archaeological data on the region's mounds and prehistoric canals in a single volume.The name Clarence B. Mo
Mimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama, showing that at mid-century it turned in the direction of a poststructuralist "disillusionment with mimesis" or mimicry.This
Being a Boy Again identifies a literary genre that flourished between the Civil War and World War I--the American boy book. Jacobson distinguishes the boy book tradition from the didactic story for bo
Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook
