Despite opposition on several fronts, women were admitted to the University of Georgia for the first time in 1918. 100 Years Enriching Lives:... Læs mere
When Hamilton Jordan died in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the last decade. A Boy from... Læs mere
When Hamilton Jordan died in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the last decade. A Boy from... Læs mere
This is a poetry of excursions: into maps of lost territories, into the thoughts of a man with no legs, into the life of a town marked by disasters. Lawler moves into the slender lines of shattered glass, the spaces between lyric and narrative, between metamorphosis and mutation.
DuBose Heyward was a central figure in both the Charleston and Southern Renaissances, although he is often remembered simply as the author of ""Porgy"", the 1925 novel of Charleston. This reader acquaints us with the writings by Heyward that have been overshadowed by ""Porgy"".
Includes poems which make a case that neither gentleness nor easiness is appropriate in the attempt to contend with the trauma and violence that are an inescapable part of human history and human experience.
Features poems from the collections, ""Somewhere in Ecclesiastes"" (1991) and This April Day"" (2003). This collection shows how the moments that truly save us - that make us human - are necessarily the most fleeting.
Athens, Georgia, seems the quintessential southern university town, its geography chiseled over geologic time by its lifeblood. This title pays attention to Athens' natural and built environments and their coevolution into one of the modern South's most dynamic small cities.
An award-winning biography of a remarkably talented, enigmatic southern woman whose fiction about rural African Americans drew on her own emotional traumas and family scandals.
Combining the study of food culture with gender studies, and using perspectives from historical, literary, environmental, and American studies, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt examines what southern women’s choices about food tell us about race, class, gender, and social power.
Published in 1964, A History of Georgia Agriculture describes the early land and labor systems in the state. Bonner clearly shows how shortages of horses and... Læs mere
Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States, revealing as much about our sense of... Læs mere