Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and... Læs mere
Covers the century from the birth of Sigmund Freud in 1856 to the death of Sylvia Plath in 1963. The book includes European, American, and Russian... Læs mere
In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made Catholicism the only recognized religion in France and criminalized the... Læs mere
Investigates how the presence of black Africans both enabled and disrupted English literary responses to Spanish... Læs mere
Presents the first annotated edition of the 1864 congressional investigation into Major General George Gordon Meade’s conduct... Læs mere
Chronicles Barbara Barnes Sims’s career at Sun Records during a pivotal time at this recording mecca, as she darted from disc jockeys to distributors.... Læs mere
The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi Roberts... Læs mere
Tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state.
Presents both the powerful story of one man’s lifelong battle for racial justice and the very personal biography of a black professional and his family in the Jim Crow-era Louisiana.
A fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella’s comprehensive cultural history spans from the street’s inception during... Læs mere
A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it, contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind.