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The first full-length volume dedicated to the life and work of Dale Kennington - an accomplished master of contemporary American realism. Grandeur of the Everyday is a treasure trove of her most accomplished creations and includes more than eighty-five examples of both Kennington's easel paintings on canvas and her freestanding wooden folding screens.

Proivides a study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters' role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite. R. Eric Platt's Educating the Sons of Sugar allows for a greater focus on the mindset of French Creole sugar planters and provides a comprehensive record and analysis of a private college supported by planter wealth.

Provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the northeastern United States. This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the Upper Mid-Atlantic region, using sites dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Presents the latest on the rapidly growing use of innovative archaeological remote sensing for anthropological applications in North America. Updating the highly praised 2006 publication Remote Sensing in Archaeology, this is a must-have volume for today's archaeologist.

An accessibly written and dramatic account of Alabama's role in the US Civil War. John S. Sledge provides a long overdue and riveting narrative of Alabama's wartime saga. Focused on the conflict's turning points within the state's borders, this book charts residents' experiences from secession's heady early days to its tumultuous end.

The memoir of an African American man who, through dedication to his goals and vision, rose through the despair of racial segregation to great heights of accomplishment, not only as a military aviator, but also as an educator and as an American citizen.

Offers a detailed history of a vitally important year in Alabama history. Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr. examines the end of the Civil War and the early days of Reconstruction in the state and details what he interprets as strategic failures of Alabama's political leadership.

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference. Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography.

Examines General Braxton Bragg's military prowess, beginning with his enlistment in the Confederate Army in 1862 to the spring of 1863. First published in 1969, this is the first of two volumes covering the life of the Confederacy's most problematic general.

An investigation into Wharton's extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction. This is an innovative study that provides fresh insights into Wharton's male characters while at the same time showing how Wharton's imagining of a fe/male self evolves throughout her career.

An illuminating look at an understudied, but critical, period in Buber's early career. Now available in paperback, Martin Buber's Formative Years illuminates a critical period in which the seeds were planted for all of Buber's subsequent work.

A landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement. Their stories help elucidate a pivotal moment in time. This is a unique volume offering insights into these rabbis' perceptions and roles in their own words and with more depth and nuance than hitherto available.

A visually stunning graphic memoir of an Argentinian immigrant's experience during the civil rights movement. Cuarto oscuro: Recuerdos en blanco y negro is the long-awaited Spanish-language translation of Lila Quintero Weaver's critically acclaimed Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White.

An analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Antonin Scalia argued the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law. This volume examines Scalia's discussions of textualism in his speeches, extrajudicial writings, and judicial opinions. Throughout his writings, Scalia argues textualism is the only acceptable form of constitutional interpretation.

Offers new views into the playwright's life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O'Neill. The purpose of this collection is to present O'Neill as others saw him and described him in their first-person accounts.

This first comprehensive biography of Thomas Goode Jones records the life of a man whose political career reflects the fascinating and unsettled history of Alabama and the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. In tracing Jones's career, Brent J. Aucoin offers vivid accounts of the great events and trends of this pivotal period.

Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout the 20th century.

These new and classic essays, researched and written over a 25-year period, are driven and enriched by the enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion of a scholar still making discoveries about a subject of lifelong fascination. Essays at the center of the collection explore Wharton's textual relationships with authors whom she knew well--especially Henry James but also Paul Bourget, F. Marion Crawford, and Vivienne de Watteville.

Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world.

Offers a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Jeanne Heuving claims that a key achievement of poetry by Ezra Pound, H.D., Robert Duncan, and others lies significantly in their engagement with the synergistic relations between being in love and writing love.

Presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D.W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.

In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century "Atlantic Economy," comprising early capitalist sugar production, the African slave trade, and European settlement.

Tells the often forgotten story of the central role citizens and soldiers from Tennessee played in the Creek War in Alabama and War of 1812. Success in both wars won for America security against attack from abroad and vast tracks of new land in "the Old Southwest". Tom Kanon explains the role Tennesseans played in these changes and how they remade the south.

Collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade. These fictions all locate America, not in the neverland of free-trade or the lost Eden of cultural homogeneity, but through the truer landscape of language.