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Identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Patricia Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory has begun to create a more fluid sense of southernness that welcomes contributions by all of the region's peoples.

Offers a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era. New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee offers an invaluable record of that pivotal time for professional, student, and amateur archaeologists.

A Vietnam War combat memoir from the perspective of an artilleryman. Impact Zone documents Marine First Lieutenant James S. Brown's intense battle experiences, including those at Khe Sanh and Con Thien, throughout his thirteen months of service on the DMZ during 1967-68.

Chilean soldiers appear in most historical accounts as decontextualized figures or simply as a single man: Augusto Pinochet. John Bawden provides new insights into the era and posits that Pinochet and his men were responsible for two major transformations in Chile's constitution as well as the political and economic effects that followed.

The first in-depth ecological treatment of one of the most frequently visited National Battlefield parks in the US. Kennesaw: Natural History of a Southern Mountain provides a comprehensive exploration of the entire park punctuated with humour, colourful anecdotes, and striking photographs of the landscape.

Offers a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions - and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity - compete for dominance.

A biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society. John Beecher (1904-1980) never had the public prominence of his famous ancestors, but as a poet, professor, sociologist, New Deal administrator, journalist, and civil rights activist, he spent his life fighting for the voiceless and oppressed with a distinct moral sensibility.

An expansive and accessible primer on Alabama state politics, past and present, which provides an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the twenty-second state's distinctive political machinery.

Explores the archaeology of African American life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic region, using sites dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. These sites highlight the potential for historical archaeology to illuminate the often overlooked contributions and experiences of the region's free and enslaved African American settlers.

Offers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt's Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the evolution of the contemporary executive-focused civil service.

Explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Gerald L. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of self-interrupting composition, starting with Friedrich Schlegel's inaugural theory and practice of the fragment as an assertion of the autonomy of words.

Offers the hypnotic fictional biography of Nathan Cohen, who is deported from the United States in 1912 under the Alien Act and who spends the first years of World War I on the passenger ship Vasari, shuttled between the United States and Argentina.

A daring collection of tales, darkly humorous, that eerily channels the surreal and sinister mood of the times. Preoccupied with the fault lines between life and death, and veering often into horror, Angela Buck brings a raw energy and witty sobriety to these accounts of human life and connection.

Investigates the ground-breaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I. Allison Finkelstein argues that American women activists considered their own community service and veteran advocacy to be forms of commemoration just as significant and effective as more traditional forms of commemoration.

Explores the impact of music on recent pioneering literary practices in the United States. Adopting the myth of Orpheus as its framework, Robert Zamsky argues that works by Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, John Taggart, Tracie Morris, and Nathaniel Mackey restage ancient debates over the relationship between poetry and music.

Addresses the ways in which natural disasters impact the strategies and priorities of neoliberalizing states in the contemporary era. Raja Swamy offers an ethnographically rich account of post-disaster reconstruction, its contested aims, and the mixed outcomes of state policy, humanitarian aid, and local resistance.

Presents the culmination of the research of preeminent rock art scholar Edward J. Lenik. Here, he profiles more than 64 examples of rock art in varied locations from Nova Scotia to Maryland. Chapters are organised geographically and lead the reader through coastal sites, rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, and upland sites.

Expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Melanesia beyond the giants, such as Herman Melville and Jack London, to include travel narratives by British and American visitors. These accounts were widely read and reviewed when they first appeared but have largely been ignored by scholars.

Drawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature, to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse.

In this touching memoir, Anita Faye Garner re-creates her remarkable upbringing. The Glory Road carries readers back to the 1950s South and the intersections of faith and family at the very roots of American popular music.

First published in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. This text revisits and builds on what has been learned in the years since the original volume.

Offers an uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors. In 2013 Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters exchanged between her late grandparents. What is unusual about their story is that Ben Kesler was not writing from a theater of war. Instead, as a conscientious objector.

Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials. This is the first book-length study of its kind to highlight the increasing commodification of Caribbean Precolumbian heritage.

Shows that the modern public sphere has always constituted a powerful space for those invested in addressing injustice and expanding democracy. To illuminate the issues underlying today's sociopolitical unrest, Kendall McClellan traces the transatlantic origins of questions still central to the representation of movements like Black Lives Matter.

Offers a fresh perspective on the study of religion and politics and stems from the author's personal interest in the ways her experiences with believers differ from how scholars often frame this group's rationale and behaviours.

In 'Last Fall' a generation of artists, intellectuals, and arts professionals investigate 'something missing' from the US 'Museum of Temporary Art', but the collections' transience make it impossible to identify what's gone. Recovering the work means exposing a secret, a conspiracy of 'why?' transforming all suspects into an American family.

St. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans. First published in 1866, Evans's rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold over a million copies in four months and became one of the nineteenth century's most influential novels.

Published in Spanish as Otras cartas a Milena, Other Letters to Milena shows Rodriguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty-first century. These involve a new post-Soviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on people like Rodriguez who have not migrated.