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Some historians extol Major General Benjamin Butler as a great humanitarian, whereas others vilify him as a brazen opportunist. In this... Læs mere
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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
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For more than twenty years Michael Holt has been considered one of the leading specialists in the... Læs mere
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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.
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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.
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“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
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Focuses on the decade of the 1840s, when the impact of coffee and export agriculture began to revolutionize Costa Rican... Læs mere
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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.
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The first published personal narrative by a regimental commander of free black troops, Thank God My Regiment an... Læs mere
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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.
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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.
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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