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Andrew Jackson Higgins is perhaps the most forgotten hero of the Allied victory. He designed the LCVP (landing craft vehicle, personnel) that... Læs mere
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After the US Civil War, Native Guard veterans took up the struggle for civil rights - in particular, voting rights - for... Læs mere
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In this indispensable volume, John Burt, Robert Penn Warren's literary executor, has assembled every poem Warren ever published (with the exception of Brother... Læs mere
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A native of Warren County, Iowa, Cyrus F. Boyd served a year and a half as an orderly sergeant with the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry before becoming first lieutenant in Company B of the Thirty-Fourth Iowa Infantry. His diary offers a full account of soldiering in the Union Army.
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Husband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in... Læs mere
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Blending official documents and city council minutes with personal diaries and newspaper accounts, Emory Thomas vividly recounts the... Læs mere
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Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. When her family moves to Atlanta, she embarks on a lifelong lesson about what it really means to belong to a people.
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This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers - George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin -... Læs mere
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In this study of the communities on both sides of the Savannah River in Georgia and South Carolina, J.... Læs mere
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Barbara Ras, a poet exquisitely heedful of nuance both physical and visceral, cinches deserved renown with this prize-winning debut collection. Bite Every Sorrow invites the reader to embrace beauty, loss, outrage, and the world in all its particular heartbreaks and hilarities.
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Emanates from Kathryn Stripling Byer's fascination with female ballad singers in southern Appalachia, whose voices haunt the mountains still, and from the image of a black net or shawl... Læs mere
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This early work by the esteemed historian Charles P. Roland draws from an abundance of primary sources to describe how the Civil War brought south Louisiana's sugarcane industry to the brink of extinction, and disaster to the lives of civilians both black and white.