In a work of startling originality, the T.R. Hummer's Ephemeron presents a meditation on ephemerality from the point of view of the ephemeron itself as it passes, be it the individual, the atom, the p
Dave Smith's sixteenth poetry collection chronicles the arc of almost sixty years living in the American South. From dusty sawmills to the ubiquitous Waffle House, Hawks on Wires stages both mortal an
In Flannery OConnors Dark Comedies Carol Shloss aims to return Flannery OConnor to her readers on fathomable terms, to offer a rhetorical, rather than theological, perspective from which to understand
Winner of the Goldsmith Prize, the Tankard Book Award, and the American Journalism Historians Association's Book of the Year, John Maxwell Hamilton's Journalism's Roving Eye has quickly become the def
In The Plague Files, Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook recount the travails of 1580s Seville, exposing the difficult lives of ordinary people and shedding light on the challenges municipal off
Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect
In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparation
In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines th
William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the
In this collection of studies of the relationships between various authors and their chief editor or publisher, Dowling (U. of Iowa) examines the nature as well as the details of these relationships.
The 12 essays of this collection utilize commercial as well as public and personal archival materials to construct a better understanding of the development and activity of the middle class in the ant
Whayne (history, U. of Arkansas), who has published and edited other books on Arkansas history, has written an in-depth account of the creation by Robert E. "Lee" Wilson of an enormous conglomeration
Louisiana's bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bayou, these sluggish streams meander through lowlands,
Always spirited and elegant, by turns witty and meditative, Catharine Savage Brosman's Under the Pergola contemplates Louisiana, past and present, before traveling a broader path that crosses Colorado
In Ministers and Masters Charity R. Carney presents a thorough account of how Methodist preachers constructed their own concept of masculinity within -- and at times in defiance of -- the constraints
In the title poem of The Swing Girl, a Greek burial relic with an image of a small child on her swing suggests the ability to move between present culture and the ghosts of history, between modern met
Jim Mueller and other officials of the National Park Service at Independence Mall in Philadelphia sought out scholars of the abolition movement in Philadelphia (with many of this volume's essays first
Bradley Clampitt's The Confederate Heartland examines morale in the Civil War's western theater -- the region that witnessed the most consistent Union success and Confederate failure and the battle gr
In Louisiana Wildlife Agents officers tell of the unimaginable dangers lurking in their supposedly routine tasks and recall side-splitting tales of misadventures on Louisiana's bayous. The sequel to G
A Pulitzer-Prize winner, historian Douglas Southall Freeman had great influence upon the way the white Confederate soldiers' experience of the Civil War was understood. In this careful, thoroughly res
