In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a... Læs mere
Pierre Cleiament de Laussat was the last representative of a foreign power to exercise authority in Louisiana. Appointed colonial prefect, these memoirs, covering the period from... Læs mere
Presents an iconoclastic interpretation of the political, military, and ethnic complexities of Andrew Jackson's involvement in the Creek War of... Læs mere
Accepting an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daniel Hoffman wrote, “Amid private sufferings and outrage at the brutalities of public... Læs mere
While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of America's capital.
Scholars of reconstruction have generally described Republican Party factional conflicts in racial terms, as if the racial agenda evoked unified black support. This study aims to show that that depiction oversimplifies a contentious and often overlooked intaracial dynamic.
The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the “Queen of the Confederacy,” Lucy Holcombe Pickens... Læs mere
Examines the efforts of black Americans in England to advance the cause of their own freedom. Speaking to... Læs mere
At a time when sectional conflicts were dividing the nation, the five best-selling southern domestic novelists vigorously came to the... Læs mere
Provides an absorbing account of the Cherokees' involvement in the early years of the Civil War, focusing in particular on the actions of one group, John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles.
Representing years of extensive research, this authoritative and comprehensive guide to the records generated in the Louisiana Territory during the French and Spanish colonial periods is a major reference work.
Sometimes called the “wharf rats from New Orleans” and the “lowest scrapings of the Mississippi,” Lee's Tigers were the approximately... Læs mere