Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, Dark Lanterns explores a controversial and puzzling aspect of the Civil War. It will be hard to dispute Frank Klements' finding that generations of historians have swallowed whole a tale that was largely the product of myth and legend.
"An eyewitness account of the troubled summer of 1964, when three young civil rights workers were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi"--Cover.
In the twenty years of its existence, the second series of the Southern Review continued the editorial orientation of the first series by presenting a range of... Læs mere
When Daniel Hoffman published a brief volume of selected poems in England, the Times Literary Supplement praised “his zestful verbal performance, supple... Læs mere
Traces the evolution of cotton culture in the region bordering the Mississippi River. John Hebron Moore examines the society supported by that industry, emphasising technological changes that transformed cotton plantations.
Jack Temple Kirby's massive and engaging study examines the rural southern world of the first half of the twentieth century, its collapse, and the... Læs mere
An encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal measure, from englyn penfyr to the double dactyl,... Læs mere