For two weeks every year, literary figures from across America gather in Sewanee, Tennessee, to lead the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a series of workshops and colloquia aimed... Læs mere
Offers the first complete history of the interaction among whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in the... Læs mere
Explores the passionate political strife that raged in Britain as a result of the American Civil War. R.J.M. Blackett opens the subject to a wider... Læs mere
An investigation of the earliest political sex scandal in American history. During Andrew Jackson's first term in office,... Læs mere
In this impressive work — the first full-scale study of the effect the Union League had on the... Læs mere
Some historians extol Major General Benjamin Butler as a great humanitarian, whereas others vilify him as a brazen opportunist. In this... Læs mere
A second collection of autobiographical "memory poems" by David Kirby. Kirby confides in narrative poems the events he actually or vicariously experienced - as a child, a... Læs mere
For more than twenty years Michael Holt has been considered one of the leading specialists in the... Læs mere
Marcia Gaudet and Carl Wooton's Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines is a collection of interviews conducted on the porch of Gaines's home in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he is writer-in-residence at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
Fascinating in its depiction of an intelligent young man's coming of age in the days of the Land Rush and the closing of the frontier, My Life and an Era is equally important for its reporting of the triracial culture of early Oklahoma.
“It is … refreshing to find a work that illuminates the complete war years of this major southern city.... Confederate Mobile will prove an invaluable guide to anyone wishing to... Læs mere
Focuses on the decade of the 1840s, when the impact of coffee and export agriculture began to revolutionize Costa Rican... Læs mere