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A promising lawyer, Hugh Davis purchased in 1847 the Cahaba River plantation of Beaver Bend, which he operated until his death in 1862. He cleared land, bought slaves, increased his cotton acreage, hired and fired overseers, tried slaves as overseers, experimented with seeds, irrigation and methods of fertilizing soil and erosion prevention.

In "Laughing Stock," Stribling's autobiography, the gifted writer reflects with humor, irony, and passion on his trajectory from a remote southern town to the literary heights of Paris and New York.

"This memorial, which is splendidly introduced and translated, ... presents a fascinating story of Franco-British cooperation and conflict on the colonial frontier."

"A thorough, highly readable book that combines scholarship and storytelling."

The story of Atlanta Life Insurance Company, with its humble beginning as a small mutual aid association, depicts the inspiring efforts of black Americans to build and sustain economic organizations and enterprises. Its study also fits in to the mosaic of activities that were aimed at developing an economic base within the black community.

"A fascinating, first hand account of activities of a private in the Confederate Army."

"An especially valuable contribution for those scholars interested in the transethnic black politician. Neilson shows us clearly the barriers that exists for black candidates who need substantial white support."

"This little book is a welcome addition to the primary source material on the final days of the territory of Florida."

"A picturesque account of life on Semmes's ship."

"Stands as an important introduction to the major debates and issues of an expanding field of scholarship."

"In lesser hands, this biography would have been either a panegyric or a burlesque. Instead, the author has added an illuminating chapter to the history of popular taste."

"Assiduously researched and well organized, [this book] transcends the parochialism which marks the history of smaller Jewish communities."

Biography of a free thinker in the time of the French Revolution

"This able work addresses itself peculiarly to the patriotism and interests of the American people, at this juncture, when it has become the duty of every good citizen, whatever may be his political creed, to aid in spreading the light of that truth which alone is depended upon to 'combat error where the press is free.'"

Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon Chappell Hodge and Kristrina A. Shuler marks steady advances over the past three decades in the theory, methodology, and purpose of bioarchaeology in the southeastern United States and across the discipline

Provides a critical reassessment of Alfred Russel Wallace's path to natural theology and counters the dismissive narrative that Wallace's theistic and sociopolitical positions are not to be taken seriously in the history and philosophy of science.

Provides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political and military leaders. These were the men who opened Alabama for settlement, secured Alabama's status as a territory in 1817 and as a state in 1819, and helped lay the foundation for the political and economic infrastructure of Alabama in its early years as a state.

Explores the relationship between art, architecture, war memory, and Franco-American relations. Kate Clarke Lemay addresses the many functions, both original and more recent, that the American war cemeteries have performed, such as war memorials, diplomatic gestures, Cold War political statements, prompts for debate about Franco-American relations, and the nature of French identity itself.

Contends that representations of Spain, Spanish America, Spanishness, and Spanish Americanness are integral elements in the evolution of early national and antebellum US literature. John C. Havard argues that Spanish-speaking countries have long held a broad fascination for Americans and that stock narratives regarding these peoples were central to the period's US literature.

Provides first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense. Disorder in the Court traces the US legal standards for the insanity defense as they have evolved from 1843, when they were first codified in England, to 1984, when the US government attempted to revise them through the Insanity Defense Reform Act.

Provides the first book-length treatment of one of John James Audubon's background painters. Maria Martin (1796-1863) was an evangelical Lutheran from Charleston, South Carolina, who became an accomplished painter within months of meeting John James Audubon.

Colorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta