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In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to recreate for readers the inexpressible feeling that comes from creating art, with poems that speak not of painting itself but of its underlying process.

In 1880, George Washington Cable was commissioned to write a "historical sketch" of pre-Civil War New Orleans for a special section of the Tenth U.S. Census. With The New Orleans of George Washington Cable, Lawrence Powell presents this rare text in its entirety for the first time, including Cable's copious footnotes.

For nearly five decades, award-winning poet Brendan Galvin has written about the birds of the tidal flats, woods, and marshes around his Cape Cod home and on islands in the North Atlantic. He knows their field marks, habits, and songs, and his work demonstrates an obvious fascination with them. Whirl Is King gathers forty-three of his bird poems about herons, owls, shorebirds, warblers, raptors, wrens, and other exotic visitors blown in by wind and storm.Seen from various angles and stratagems, Galvin's migrants and locals are always in motion, acting and acted upon, sometimes predatory, sometimes possessing mythic qualities. In tones ranging from the elegiac to the hilarious, these poems inhabit the overlapping borders of human and avian life: "not to salute such / charity of song / though it be plain as / thumbsqueaks on clear windowpanes, / not to say their names, / and the shadow of death passes / across our tongues." Whirl Is King features Galvin's hallmark descriptive powers and verbal music on full display and demonstrates his talent as a contemporary poet.

Irish poet Greg Delanty presents a series of poems that explore the birth of a child. These poems log the days before and after a child is born, detailing the wonder and trepidation of parents, the growth of the child, and speculation on the soul and spirit. Written from the vantage point of a father--his hopes, fears, awe, and perplexity--these poems register the seen and unseen interconnections of place, people, the natural world, and the continuity of the past with the present and the future.

Colorfully known as the "Greyhound Division" for its lean and speedy marches across thousands of miles in three states, Major General John G. Walker's infantry division in the Confederate army was the largest body of Texans -- about 12,000 men at its formation -- to serve in the American Civil War. From its creation in 1862 until its disbandment at the war's end, Walker's unit remained, uniquely for either side in the conflict, a stable group of soldiers from a single state. Richard Lowe's compelling saga shows how this collection of farm boys, store clerks, carpenters, and lawyers became the trans-Mississippi's most potent Confederate fighting unit, from the vain attack at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, in 1863 during Grant's Vicksburg Campaign to stellar performances at the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry that helped repel Nathaniel P. Banks's Red River Campaign of 1864. Lowe's skillful blending of narrative drive and demographic profiling represents an innovative history of the period that is sure to set a new benchmark.

Scholars of reconstruction have generally described Republican Party factional conflicts in racial terms, as if the racial agenda evoked unified black support. This study aims to show that that depiction oversimplifies a contentious and often overlooked intaracial dynamic.

Offers the first complete history of the interaction among whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories from the end of the Civil War until Oklahoma statehood, addressing questions about the nature of American race relations, the answers to which far transcend the territorial boundaries of the region.

Originally published in 1990, award-winning historian Joseph Glatthaar recreates the events that gave the United States Colored Troops and their 7,000 white officers justifiable pride in their contributions to the Union victory and hope of equality in the years to come.

Examines the paradox that communities famous for their cohesiveness and moral stability were in fact oppressive along race and class lines. The author uses readings from "Georgia Scenes", "Swallow Barn", "In Ole Virginia", "Lanterns on the Levee" and "Light in August" to illustrate this point.

This reprint edition of Napier Bartlett's 1875 memoir again makes available a valuable resource on Louisiana troops' participation in the Civil War. Bartlett served throughout the war in Louisiana's elite Washington Artillery and fought in many battles in Virginia and the East.

First published in 1865, Belle Boyd's memoir of her experiences as a Confederate spy has stood the test of time and interest. In this new edition, Kennedy-Nolle and Faust consider the domestic side of the Civil War and also assess the value of Boyd's memoir for social and literary historians.

Deeply rooted in personal and regional history, David Middleton's The Fiddler of Driskill Hill celebrates a particular place and the universal human experience. While evoking distinctive Louisiana landscapes, both north and south, these poems address the great philosophical and theological questions of the ages.

First published in 1978, Claude Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. Oubre recounts the struggle of black families to acquire land and how the US government agency Freedmen's Bureau both served and obstructed them.

From George Ella Lyon comes a dynamic and humorous collection examining the transformations of one woman's life as she tries on, takes on, and peels off identities learned from family stories, gender, fairy tales, and myths.

Provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Robert Paul Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound.

A powerful confluence of youthful energies and entrenched codes of honour enlivens Robert Pace's look at the world of male student college life in the antebellum South. Through extensive research, Pace creates a vivid portrait of adolescent rebelliousness struggling with the ethic to cultivate a public face of industry, respect, and honesty.

A bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those abuses no woman can ever quite recover from, but also reveal the loving, forgiving temperament of the mother no woman can do without.

A riveting war epic of local scale and human dimensions. Taking its title from the cry raised in Williamsburg as the Federal army approached in 1862, Carol Dubbs's narrative sweeps us into the lives of residents of this small historic city from the secession of Virginia in 1861 to Lee's surrender four years later.

For two weeks every year, literary figures from across America gather in Sewanee, Tennessee, to lead the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a series of workshops and colloquia aimed at cultivating the craft of writing. Gleaned from the first ten conferences, this collection offers a range of perspectives on writing as practiced by various writers.

In this collection, Civil War historian Gary Gallagher examines Robert E. Lee, his principal subordinates, the treatment they have received in the literature on Confederate military history, and the continuing influence of Lost Cause arguments in the late-twentieth-century United States.

In this provocative analysis of the postbellum southern economy, Gavin Wright finds in the South's peculiar labour market the answer to the perennial question of why the region remained backward for so long. After the Civil War, Wright explains, the South continued to be a low-wage regional market embedded in a high-wage national economy.

From the first passage in William C. Davis' book about "the twilight of America's innocence" to the last, the reader is carried through what many in the 1860s believed would be the only major conflict between North and South.

After the US Civil War, Native Guard veterans took up the struggle for civil rights - in particular, voting rights - for Louisiana's black population. The Louisiana Native Guards is the first account to consider that struggle, placing the Native Guards' military service in the broader context of the civil rights movement.

On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. By intertwining a suspenseful account of this heinous crime with an exploration of the citizens it affected, No Spark of Malice provides insight into a fascinating people, place, and era.

Serves as a companion guide for readers who enjoy Walker Percy's novels but may be less familiar with the works of Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dante. In addition to clarifying Percy's philosophies, Wilson highlights allusions to other writers within his narratives and addresses historical and political contexts.

With occupation, the home front and the battlefield merged to create an unanticipated second front where civilians - mainly women - resisted what they perceived as unjust domination. In this volume, historians consider how women's reactions to occupation affected both the strategies of military leaders and ultimately the outcome of the Civil War.

In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao called the "week that changed the world." Using declassified sources from American, Chinese, European, and Soviet archives, Chris Tudda reveals how the relationship forged by the Nixon administration and the Chinese government that altered the trajectory of the Cold War.