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With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she has known in her... Læs mere
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Beginning with the necessary dislocation and loss that accompany adulthood, these strong and moving poems tell a story of a man's losing his way in the midst of personal... Læs mere
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Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty.... Læs mere
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In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a... Læs mere
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Pierre Cleiament de Laussat was the last representative of a foreign power to exercise authority in Louisiana. Appointed colonial prefect, these memoirs, covering the period from... Læs mere
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Presents an iconoclastic interpretation of the political, military, and ethnic complexities of Andrew Jackson's involvement in the Creek War of... Læs mere
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Accepting an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daniel Hoffman wrote, “Amid private sufferings and outrage at the brutalities of public... Læs mere
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While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of America's capital.
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Scholars of reconstruction have generally described Republican Party factional conflicts in racial terms, as if the racial agenda evoked unified black support. This study aims to show that that depiction oversimplifies a contentious and often overlooked intaracial dynamic.
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The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the “Queen of the Confederacy,” Lucy Holcombe Pickens... Læs mere
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Examines the efforts of black Americans in England to advance the cause of their own freedom. Speaking to... Læs mere
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At a time when sectional conflicts were dividing the nation, the five best-selling southern domestic novelists vigorously came to the... Læs mere