Gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by a crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in t
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection James Wynn’s timely investigati
A microhistory of racial segregation in Cienfuegos, a central Cuban port city Founded as a white colony in 1819, Cienfuegos, Cuba, quickly became home to people of African descent, both free and
Provides a comparative framework for analyzing issues of urban planning and government In tandem with an analysis of the basic purpose and rationale of urban planning, Peter Self discusses the achieve
Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama Thomas E. Nunnally’s fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine wi
A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, and fieldwork A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics
Archaeological case studies that explore the rituals and cultural significance of foods in the southeastern United States Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodwa
A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically. While much has been written about the significant eve
A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically. While much has been written about the significant eve
A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: s
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women’s mobility in the Dominican Republic.Borders of Visibility offers extremely timely insight into the Dominican Republic’s racist treatment
Land of Water, City of the Dead explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs. Cahokia, the largest city of the Mi
What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused
This first comprehensive biography of Thomas Goode Jones records the life of a man whose political career reflects the fascinating and unsettled history of Alabama and the Deep South at the turn of th
In 1901, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas.
In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstr
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American LiteratureSince his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes’s a
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American LiteratureIn Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a confident and spirited argument for the use of digital art in support of amelioratin
Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the Black Carib,” whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America is a landmark publication that describes, illustrates, and offers non-dogmatic interpretations of rituals and beliefs in Archaic America. In compil
