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First published in 1865, Belle Boyd's memoir of her experiences as a Confederate spy has stood the test of time and interest. In this new edition, Kennedy-Nolle and Faust... Læs mere
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Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, and converses with her Afro-New... Læs mere
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In this groundbreaking study, Charles Ramsdell explores the causes of the South's defeat in the Civil War. Finding traditional military explanations insufficient, he argues that deficiencies on the homefront were fundamental to the collapse of the Confederacy.
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Born in rural Virginia during Reconstruction, Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) was a central figure in black history and an important American scholar. This... Læs mere
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This collection of poems claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love and the African-American experience since slavery and arranges them as pebbles marking our common journey toward a "monstrous love / that wants to make the world right."
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This study depicts a range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with Europeans... Læs mere
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Originally published in 1952 and long out of print, South of Freedom is a first-rate account of what it was like to live as a second-class citizen, to experience the segregation,... Læs mere
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Explores the childbearing and -rearing responsibilities that consumed, often literally, the lives of women in the Old South. Sally... Læs mere
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In what may be the most impressive research to date of state supreme court records, this study analyses the evolution of Louisiana's slave laws... Læs mere
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Written by the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pharaoh, Pharaohis a meditation on time, memory, inheritance, and the irony of loss, loss of one's land, of one's past, of love itself.
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In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language.
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In this highly acclaimed and enduring biography, John Alden traces the interwoven histories of George Washington and the nation he helped to create, defend, and guide... Læs mere