Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25,000 casualties but no clear victor. Using previously neglected sources, Larry Daniel rescues this important campaign from obscurity.
Martin Luther King Jr's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. This volume offers a comprehensive history of King's “Letter” and examines its literary appeal.
Poet and novelist Ashley Mace Havird confronts global and personal change. Her subjects range from the extinction of a prehuman species to the present-day reduction in sea life due to the climate crisis. Closer to home, she confronts the death of her father and her own aging.
The innovative and dazzling short stories collected in Josh Russell's King of the Animals explore love and heartbreak, growing up and growing old, cities and suburbs, the fantastic and the everyday.
Offers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. The collection's long sequence, “A Field Guide to People”, is an alpha-bestiary of... Læs mere
Weaves a compelling true crime narrative into an exploration of the economics of magazine fiction and the... Læs mere
By focusing on two specific diseases rather than a broad array of Civil War medical topics, this book offers an... Læs mere
For seven months in 1880, Lafcadio Hearn amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block ‘cartoons’ and accompanying... Læs mere
Follows a Civil War orphan's transformation from a Southside Virginia public school teacher to a nationally known progressive educator... Læs mere
Demonstrates that structures of media undergird American regionalism through the representation of a given geography's peoples, places, and ideologies. THe... Læs mere
Traces how Civil War era volunteer and professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the unprecedented project of wartime... Læs mere
Reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined... Læs mere