Historians have come to think on the late nineteenth century as America's Gilded Age. But in Louisiana it was a time of conflict and... Læs mere
Eugene Talmadge's career as a politician lasted twenty years, and during that time he dominated Georgia's political structure as few men have in any state's history. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is a fascinating biography of one of the South's most colourful political figures.
“American scholarship is richer for this unique exercise. More important, the great community,... one again sorely beset by unsettled problems of sectional rivalry and... Læs mere
For more than forty years William Dean Howells counted Mark Twain among his closest friends. Twain's death on April 21, 1910, moved Howells to record his... Læs mere
Cutting across the Bourbon Era, the Populist Revolt, and the Progressive Movement, Hoke Smith's career gave expression to the Southern politics of his... Læs mere
George Washington Cable, compared in his lifetime to Dickens and Daudet and praised in Moscow as a disciple of Turgenev, was more than a local colourist of Creole days in New... Læs mere
One of the most scholarly and provocative books written in this much worked-over period. - Avery O. Craven, Saturday Review
Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his... Læs mere
In a work of critical reflection and innovation, William Boelhower examines the cultural shift represented by the new paradigm of Atlantic studies, a discipline... Læs mere
Few historians have investigated the experiences of individual American states during the tumultuous World War II years. In his study of... Læs mere
Louisiana's non-unanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of... Læs mere