A book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn’s String tells the story of a teenage boy’s experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. Written in the boy’s fractured, echoing voice, String... Læs mere
Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony against a legal system that often fails victims of physical trauma and domestic abuse.
Tells the story of the unique relationship between the United States and its first ally, France. David Haglund examines the Franco-American... Læs mere
The Star Route scandal captured the US’s attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the country... Læs mere
Explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake... Læs mere
Explores how material relationships between enslaved people and animals bolstered the intellectual dehumanization of the... Læs mere
Originally published in 1971, Allen Trelease’s White Terror was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject.
Uses the lens of the Wild Woman display to explore the growing cultural divisions between the North and the South in 1856, especially the differing gender ideologies of the northern Republican Party and the more southern focused Democrats.
The poems in The Gentle Art, a compelling new collection from William Wenthe, move between the life of the painter James McNeill Whistler and a poetic version of the author, who is at once inspired and disturbed by Whistler.
Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith’s new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive organic shapes.
The final year of the Civil War witnessed a profound transformation in the practice of modern... Læs mere
Louisiana’s bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to... Læs mere