Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. In I Remember Jazz, Rose draws on his unparallelled experience to recall, through brief but poignant vignettes, the greats and the near-greats of jazz.
The first published personal narrative by a regimental commander of free black troops, Thank God My Regiment an... Læs mere
Originally published in 1990, award-winning historian Joseph Glatthaar recreates the events that gave the United States Colored Troops and their 7,000 white officers justifiable pride in their contributions to the Union victory and hope of equality in the years to come.
The 30 poems in this collection show Dave Smith turning from the work of an accomplished past to new formal practices that highlight a poetry autumnal in its recognition of life's limits.
Examines the paradox that communities famous for their cohesiveness and moral stability were in fact oppressive along race and class lines. The author uses... Læs mere
William Gilmore Simms was the preeminent southern man of letters in the antebellum period, a prolific, talented writer in... Læs mere
This is an important, perceptive study of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s career and an astute critical analysis of the reporting practices of the news media in the modern era.
What does it mean to be a Southern writer in the 1970s? What is the nature of today's South and what prospects does it offer a writer? These twelve interviews with writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction elicit some thoughtful and revealing answers.
Like many other northern clergymen after the Civil War, A.D. Mayo became interested in the role that education could play in rebuilding... Læs mere
Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed “the other South”. The son of an aristocratic North... Læs mere