Novelist, journalist, film critic, poet, and activist James Agee (1909?1955) produced an impressive array of literary works spanning three decades. His poems, novels, essays, works of criticism, and s
Comey is a retired secondary school principal living in Charlottesville, Virginia. Henry Newton Comey, the author's great-grandfather's cousin, volunteered for military service in 1861 and served thro
This book chronicles a case in Tennessee in the early 1970s, when high school basketball player Victoria Cape sued the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association because girls’ basketball team
Amis and Wright aim to fill a gap in the literature on school district consolidations, focusing on what was the largest school district consolidation in the history of the U.S. The book analyzes t
"This is a study of a long line of discussions, begun by St. George Tucker and carried out by his sons and other southern intellectuals, about the implications of natural rights principles upon the st
On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, leaders of the American suffrage movement organized an enormous march through the capital that served as an important salvo on the long
This volume brings together contributions from a variety of anthropologists working in a variety of fields, including archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and ethnohistory, in order to ref
To introduce readers to the first regiment from the Pacific Northwest to serve the Union cause, Jewell presents wartime letters in which cavalrymen shared their experiences with people back home in
This study examines sentiments for and against the Confederacy in Bartow County, Georgia, an area of southern Appalachia chosen to study because it had rural and urban populations of wealthy, merc
On the night of August 5, 1927, someone shot and killed Coleman Osborn, a store owner inChatsworth, Georgia, in his place of business. Police and neighbors found only circumstantialtraces of the murde
Revealing the mind-set of a soldier seared by the horrors of combat even as he kept faith in his cause, Last to Leave the Field showcases the private letters of Ambrose Henry Hayward, a Massachusetts
As a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, an army chaplain, a college professor, and a prolific writer, Theophilus Gould Steward was one of America’s leading black intellectuals during
No other book on the Southern Appalachians is more widely known or cited. ?"Awonderful book. I like it especially for its color and anecdotes. It is a classic, not only for its accuracy and breadth of
Duin examines several families in Appalachia who attend churches that practice the handling of venomous snakes as part of their old-time religion. In the face of the deaths of members, they soldier
Three Years a Soldier combines the diary, correspondence, and literary efforts of Private George Perkins of the Sixth New York Independent Battery, beginning in December 1861 and ending December 1864.
The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith in his new book, represented the climax of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important??This decade was the perfect time for the est
Reinhart has written a history of the regiment. Here he translates the two texts to provide a different perspective on serving in a Union regiment from a border state. He alters the punctuation slight
Offering a fascinating look at an ordinary soldier's struggle to survive not only the horrors of combat but also the unrelenting hardship of camp life, Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth brings together
The journal of William B. Miller chronicles both his involvement in some of the most important military actions of the Civil War's western theater, including Chickamauga and the Atlanta campaign, and
Revised Edition 1988This Sierra Club guide describes hiking areas, noting their natural features and the length and difficulty of their trails, and offers travel directions and backpacking and camping
US archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians expand on recent work in African American archaeology by focusing on physical and moral struggles against slavery and racism in wide geographical and
Matt Spruill, a retired US Army colonel, Civil War historian and lecturer, former Gettysburg battlefield guide, and author, and Lee Spruill, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel and author, delinea
Historians and anthropologists examine the establishment and geopolitical complexities of life in and around the Tennessee River during the 17th and early 18th centuries, then explore the effects of t
The author examines different modes of memory in relation to the Vietnam War and how people remember and memorialize it and its aftereffects, in memorials, poetry, film, and fiction published or p
Perlman, an author, banjo and guitar player, teacher, and music collector, draws on interviews with 150 fiddlers and others from Prince Edward Island, Canada, as well as archival records and other sou
Arkansas’s diverse geography, spanning the Ozark Mountains, densely forested Timberlands, and Mississippi River Delta, and its complex Native American and Euro American history belie the inattentive h
American literary naturalism both seduces and repulses the reader, disrupting stable notions of individual and moral coherence. Usually associated with works such as Frank Norris’s McTeague and Stephe
The historical essays and studies collected here chart the expanded importance and connection between government and business in North Carolina during WWI. Material is grouped in sections on milita
At once accessible and sophisticated, this primer introduces a set of specific principles and procedures designed to promote a deeper understanding of the nuances of human experience and reflection. T
