Provides a compelling comparison of seemingly disparate groups and illuminates the contours of nationalism during... Læs mere
Examines case histories from the First District Court of New Orleans and tells the engrossing story of prostitution in the... Læs mere
Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret... Læs mere
Explores gradations in the opposition to civil rights by examining how the American south's principal national... Læs mere
A bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those... Læs mere
Set against a backdrop of a nation exhausted by war, in a decadent city that for years has been denied its butter, sugar, and Mardi Gras, My Bright Midnight is a novel about the complications of loyalties to country, to friends, and to those we love.
Years in the making, Stephen Sandy's Overlook gathers themes and occasions that have intrigued the poet throughout his career. This powerful collection explores love and death, success and failure, war and disaster, with appropriate measures of wit and grief.
Born in Virginia circa 1805, Francis Fedric was not unlike thousands of other African Americans who escaped slavery and... Læs mere
A rare, fascinating personality emerges in Donald B. Cole's biography of Amos Kendall (1789-1869), the reputed intellectual engine behind... Læs mere
Linda Bolton uses six extraordinarily resonant moments in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history to highlight the ethical challenge... Læs mere
In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence.