In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives,... Læs mere
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., brings forty years of critical integrity and imaginative involvement with the history and literature of... Læs mere
Theodore Bilbo is remembered almost exclusively as the Archangel of white Supremacy. His reputation as perhaps the vilest purveyor of racist rhetoric is... Læs mere
Gathers together, evaluates, and sets down the stories, legends, facts, and circumstances of the founding of Baton Rouge; its troubled history under the colonial governments of France, England, and Spain; and its eventual entry into the Union in 1812.
At the close of the Civil War, the Federal government undertook a sweeping reform of land tenure in the South with the passage of the Southern Homestead Act of 1866. Michael Lanza studies the conception, evolution, and demise of this critical aspect of Reconstruction history.
Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, he... Læs mere
Daniel Hoffman's bold new readings reveal unsuspected dimensions in Faulkner's The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. He shows... Læs mere
History is often measured by records of great leaders and events. Nicholas Hardeman convinces us that American history can be... Læs mere
Tracing the development of a black community in the trans-Mississippi West, Thomas Cox probes the political, social, and economic standing of blacks... Læs mere