Frances B. Cogan explores the events behind this nearly four-year captivity, explaining how and why this little-known... Læs mere
Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s.
The story of Lane's journey as he visits coyote territories: swamps, nature preserves, old farm fields, suburbs, a tannery, and even city streets. Along the way, he gains... Læs mere
Hiemstra draws on the experiences of detained and deported migrants, as well as their families and communities in Ecuador, to show... Læs mere
The first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. An... Læs mere
Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject.... Læs mere
William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state... Læs mere
Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs’s... Læs mere
A Man’s World is a collection of twenty profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney.
Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft’s Georgia facility, recalls his thirty-six-year career that spanned the... Læs mere
This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades and... Læs mere
Brings together Lester D. Langley's personal and professional link to the long American Revolution in a narrative that spans more than 150 years and places... Læs mere