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Although relatively unknown today, Martin Behrman dominated New Orleans politics in the early twentieth century, serving as mayor from 1904 to 1920 and again in 1925. The Boss of New Orleans is a masterful examination of Behrman’s remarkable life and political career.
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In poems that use the science behind chaos theory as a lens for examining illness and agency, Chelsea Dingman explores the divide between determination and accident, whereby the body... Læs mere
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Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how... Læs mere
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Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank Cirillo’s The... Læs mere
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A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of... Læs mere
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Through a variety of subjects, and through styles ranging from rhyme and meter to prose poetry, Morri Creech takes an unflinching look at what it means to live in the shadow of the end, the common fate to which each of us is sentenced.
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Engages the lengthy debate over the ivory-bill woodpecker’s status by examining reported sightings and extensive efforts to find the rare bird in Louisiana.
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Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of... Læs mere
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Explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution.
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Examines the development of nationalism and its frequent manifestation, secession, by comparing the American experience with that of several other nations,... Læs mere
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Confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessment of Enlightenment values and their often-catastrophic realization in American history.
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An insightful social and military history of Civil War-era Louisiana. The book reveals the Civil War, state-building efforts, and democracy itself as... Læs mere