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Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 מאת Joshua Goode Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, the Spanish dictator's racial ideals had little to do with the kind of pure lineage that obsessed the Nazis. Indeed, Franco's idea of race--that of a National Catholic state as the happy meeting gro...

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The Crimean War: As Seen by Those Who Reported It (From Our Own Correspondent) מאת William Howard Russell Armed with only a telescope, a watch, and a notebook he retrieved from a dead soldier, William Howard Russell spent twenty-two months reporting from the trenches for the Times of London during the Crimean War. A novice in a new field of journalism--war reporting--when he first set off for Cri...

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The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems מאת David R. Slavitt In The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems, veteran poet David R. Slavitt touches on topics from the mundane to the mysterious with his signature wit and intelligence. In "Stupid," for instance, he transforms a simple head cold into an appreciation for the richness of consciousness, and in "W...

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The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems (Southern Messenger Poets) מאת David Kirby Long-lined and often laugh-aloud funny, Kirby's poems are ample steamer trunks into which the poet seems to be able to put just about anything-the heated restlessness of youth, the mixed blessings of self-imposed exile, the settled pleasures of home. As the poet Philip Levine says, "the world th...

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Revenge of the Teacher's Pet: A Love Story (Yellow Shoe Fiction) מאת Darrin Doyle Fifty-year-old science teacher Dale Portwit believes that the peak of his life has come and gone. A failed suicide, a food fetishist, so isolated that the Best Man at his wedding is a framed photograph of his former mailman, Mr. Portwit resolves to live entirely for the moment, to speak his mind at ...

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We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux's and Maison Blanche Department Stores מאת Hans J. Sternberg The words "Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche" conjure up a wealth of fond memories for local shoppers. At this landmark Louisiana department store, clerks greeted you by name; children received a nickel to buy a Coke and for every report-card A; families anticipated the holiday arrival of the beloved puppe...

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Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community 1861-1865 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series) מאת Barton A. Myers On December 18, 1863, just north of Elizabeth City in rural northeastern North Carolina, a large group of white Union officers and black enlisted troops under the command of Brigadier General Edward Augustus Wild executed a local citizen for his involvement in an irregular resistance to Union army i...

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Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War מאת James Alex Baggett Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refu...

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Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom (Southern Biography Series) מאת Joel William Friedman One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until his death in 1999 and wrote many of the landmark decisions instrumental in desegregating the American...

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The Prose Elegy: An Exploration of Modern American and British Fiction מאת John B. Vickery Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living things, these poets seek consolation from religion, philosophy, or culture for the inevitability of death. The modern prose elegy, however, follo...

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Letters to My Father (Southern Literary Studies) מאת William Styron "I've finally pretty much decided what to write next--a novel based on Nat Turner's rebellion," twenty-six-year-old William Styron confided to his father in a letter he wrote on May 1, 1952. Styron would not publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner until 1967, but this...

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From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design מאת Peder Anker Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in FROM BAUHAUS TO ECOHOUSE, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture has been ongoing for nearly...

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Virginia Plantation Homes מאת David King Gleason Gleason, whose previous full-color photography books have sold close to 100,000 copies, here provides a grand tour of Virginia's distinctive plantation homes. 146 color photos....

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The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) מאת Edward Bartlett Rugemer While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, Edward Bartlett Rugemer places the origins of the war in a transatlantic context. Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, ...

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The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, As Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft מאת John Frederick Hartranft On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, recently inaugurated president Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft to command the military prison at the Washington Arsenal, where the U.S. government had just incarcerated the seven men and one woman accused of complicit...

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Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) מאת Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas. Instead of focusing on the white, male politicians and settlers who vied for control of the Kansas territorial legislature, Oertel exp...

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Call Me Coach: A Life in College Football מאת Paul F. Dietzel When LSU head football coach Paul Dietzel saw Billy Cannon field an Ole Miss punt on LSU's own eleven yard line on a stifling Halloween night in 1959, his shouts of "No, no, no!" turned to "Go, go, go!" as Cannon eluded tackler after tackler, sending fans in Tiger Stadium into a frenzy and earning...

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I Am One of You Forever: A Novel מאת Fred Chappell This novel describes the experiences of a young boy growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s....

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Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Southern Biography Series) מאת Meredith Mason Brown The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. The scarcity of surviving autobiographical material has allowed tellers of his story to fashion a Boone of their own liking, and his myth has evolved in count...

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The Liberty Party, 1840-1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) מאת Reinhard O. Johnson In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the increasing slavery debate and growing sectional conflict, it had grown to challenge the two mainstream political parties in many areas. In The Lib...

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Wildflowers of the Coastal Plain: A Field Guide Includes the Lower Mississippi River Valley, Gulf, and Atlantic Coastal States מאת Ray Neyland Wildflowers of the Coastal Plain provides detailed information on 535 species of herbaceous plants, vines, and shrubs inhabiting one of the great floristic provinces of the United States. The coastal plain extends from southeast Texas eastward to Florida and includes the Mississippi River flo...

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Can We Have One?: A Parent's Guide to Raising Kids With Cats and Dogs מאת Lynn F. Buzhardt The decision to include pets as a part of your family can be fraught with uncertainty. How do you know when the time is right? How do you select the right pet? Choose a proper diet? Avoid common injuries? Provide adequate exercise? Avoid allergies? Share care-taking responsibilities? Not share...

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Shadow Box מאת Fred Chappell In this sharply innovative collection, renowned poet Fred Chappell layers words and images to create a new and dramatic poetic form--the poem-within-a-poem. Like the shadow box in the volume's title, each piece consists of an inner world contained, framed, supported by an outer--the two interdepende...

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The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 מאת Scott Mingus Previous works on Confederate brigadier general Harry T. Hays's First Louisiana Brigade--better known as the "Louisiana Tigers"--have tended to focus on just one day of the Tigers' service--their role in attacking East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863--and have touched only lightly on the...

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Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (Jules and Frances Landry Award) מאת Dan T. Carter With a New Introduction Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the history of the American South. In 1931, two white girls claimed they were savagely raped by nine young black men ...

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The Glass House: New Poems מאת Daniel Mark Epstein The poems in Daniel Mark Epstein's eighth poetry collection range from the kind of solid and accomplished works for which he is known to astonishing pieces that are near-spiritual encounters. Always an assured poet, Epstein employs inventive rhythms to remarkable effect in these new poems, and it of...

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Molly the Pony: A True Story מאת Pam Kaster Molly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return. So begins the true story of a patient pony who is rescued from a south Louisiana barn after Hurricane Katrina and finds a new life on a farm with new animal friends. But Molly's tale of ...

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A Politics of Understanding: The International Thought of Raymond Aron (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy Series) מאת Reed M. Davis Frequently hailed as one of the greatest defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator Raymond Aron (1905-1983) left behind a staggering amount of published work on a remarkably wide range of topics both scholarly and popular. In A P...

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Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era מאת William J., Jr. Cooper With his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the foremost scholar on the intriguing Confederate president. Cooper narrows his focus considerably in Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, a...

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John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal (Southern Biography Series) מאת Thomas M. Settles Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginia's forces behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There...

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The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems מאת Daniel Hoffman The Whole Nine Yards offers poems spanning the career of former Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman. These explore violence and transcendence in realistic, gothic, and comic modes, as they tell of war, cold war, domestic violence, bureaucratic oppression, and a compassionate rescue at sea. Searching...

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Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting מאת John Maxwell Hamilton In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee. Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire expertise that home-based reporters take ...

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These Extremes: Poems and Prose מאת Richard Bausch In his first collection of poetry and prose, award-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch proves that he is also an accomplished poet. Penned over a span of many years, the poems in These Extremes deal with a wide variety of subjects. Many focus on Bausch's own family and relationships. In one...

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Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp מאת Gwen Roland In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people—Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin—decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana’s million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a boo...

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The Glass House: New Poems מאת Daniel Mark Epstein The poems in Daniel Mark Epstein's eighth poetry collection range from the kind of solid and accomplished works for which he is known to astonishing pieces that are near-spiritual encounters. Always an assured poet, Epstein employs inventive rhythms to remarkable effect in these new poems, and it of...

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Modernizing Tradition: Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany מאת Adam C. Stanley In the turbulent decades after World War I, both France and Germany sought to return to an idealized, prewar past. Many people believed they could recapture a sense of order and stability by reinstituting traditional gender roles, which the war had thrown off balance. While French and German women n...

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Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965 (Making the Modern South) מאת Keith M. Finley Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations ...

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The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction (Southern Literary Studies) מאת Scott Romine In this stimulating, cutting-edge study, Scott Romine explores the impact of globalization on contemporary southern culture and the South's persistence in an age of media and what he terms "cultural reproduction." Rather than being compromised, Romine asserts, southern cultures are both complicat...

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Waiting for the Alchemist מאת Mark Perlberg Direct and compassionate, the poems in Mark Perlberg's final collection tell us things we need to know--about art, history, nature, love, and life. Wholly without pretension, these poems make us feel that we have discovered the truth. The poet accomplishes this partly by his delicate touch with rhym...

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At Home in Tennessee: Classic Historic Interiors מאת Donna Dorian In the first half of the nineteenth century, when road transportation was still a rather primitive affair in the South, families would open their doors for what they called an "at home," entertaining friends and relatives who came and went throughout the day. This book is an "at home" of sorts: a ce...

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Two Rooms: Poems מאת Constance Merritt Relying most heavily on music and metaphor, syntax and diction, Two Rooms explores the conflicting claims of life and art, world and word, cultural heritage and cultural affinities, through the sacral, erotic, and creative imagination. By the light of these dark lyrics, Constance Merritt sear...

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Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story מאת Robert Paul Lamb In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant...

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Pacific Shooter (Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series) מאת Susan Parr "Pacific Shooter is a book of transformations as insubordinate and subversive as Ovid's Metamorphoses--and with all the taste and twang of a new language. The bourgeois reader will hate it: there's too much magic, too much genius, too much linguistic bliss." --Susan Mitchell, from her judge...

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The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems מאת David R. Slavitt In The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems, veteran poet David R. Slavitt touches on topics from the mundane to the mysterious with his signature wit and intelligence. In "Stupid," for instance, he transforms a simple head cold into an appreciation for the richness of consciousness, and in "W...

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Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text מאת Richard Lehan Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and Bergsonian intu...

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Negotiating in the Press: American Journalism and Diplomacy, 1918-1919 (Media & Public Affairs Ser.) מאת Joseph R. Hayden Negotiating in the Press offers a new interpretation of an otherwise dark moment in American journalism. Rather than emphasize the familiar story of lost journalistic freedom during World War I, Joseph R. Hayden describes the press's newfound power in the war's aftermath--that seminal moment ...

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Becoming Cajun, Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke (Southern Literary Studies) מאת Maria Hebert-leiter From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian cultu...

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Race, Labor, & Civil Rights: Griggs Versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity (Making the Modern South) מאת Robert Samuel Smith In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging the requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking dec...

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It's Time: Poems מאת Reginald Gibbons In his seventh book of verse, Reginald Gibbons ponders human consciousness and memory, the blessedness of human love, and the force and fury of human destructiveness. By turns intimate, imaginatively historical, and deeply engaged in the paradoxes of language itself, IT'S TIME belongs to that genea...

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Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks מאת W. Craig Gaines On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine...

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Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator (Southern Biography Series) מאת Sam Davis Elliott In 1931, when the Nashville Banner conducted a survey to determine the "Greatest Tennesseans" to date, the state's Confederate "War Governor," Isham G. Harris (1818-1897), was tenth on the list, behind such famous Tennesseans as Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, and Nathan Bedfor...

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The Retreats of Thought: Poems מאת Kelly Cherry In this book-length sonnet sequence, Kelly Cherry explores the philosophical domain, addressing classic questions, raising new ones, and sometimes doing philosophy in fourteen lines. A former philosophy student in graduate school, she retains a deep love of philosophical inquiry and maintains that o...

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Drums at Dusk (Library of Southern Civilization) מאת Arna Bontemps A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk immerses readers in the opulent and brutal--yet also very fragile--society of France's richest colony, Saint Domingue. First published in 1939, this...

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Crawfishes of Louisiana מאת Jerry G. Walls Everyone in Louisiana knows something about crawfish--especially how tasty they can be when boiled with just the right combination of spices. Yet these small crustaceans--known as "crayfishes" by scientists and "mudbugs" by many fishermen--offer more than a delicious meal. In Crawfishes of Louisi...

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Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems מאת Miller Williams Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it's hard to be understood and make that look easy," he describes his own poetry perfectly. This latest effort from Williams provides a collection of rhythmical poems in conversational language about the natur...

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Transfigurations: Collected Poems מאת Jay Wright

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Houses Are Fields מאת Taije Silverman Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured narratives to fragmented lyrics that convey the ambiguity of loss, these poems both arc into the past and question the possibility of the future, explor...

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Tears of Rage: The Racial Interface of Modern American Fiction-Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison (Southern Literary Studies) מאת Shelly Brivic In this provocative study, Shelly Brivic presents the history of the twentieth-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between white and black voices. Exploring four of the most renowned and challenging works written between 1930 and 1990--William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!,

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If the Heart Is Lean: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) מאת Margaret Luongo The sixteen stories in Margaret Luongo's If the Heart Is Lean etch sharp portraits of people in odd and sometimes surreal situations who thus have the opportunity to view their lives from a unique perspective. In "Chestnut Season," a young woman stalled in traffic sees her future self park...

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Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town מאת A. Hays Town Architect A. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house, and this volume honors that legacy. Color photographs of numerous homes, including Town's own, combine with illuminating text to produce a volume that captures the appeal and beauty of the state's finest architectural tradition. 200 col...

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Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt מאת Melissa Kean After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike at their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation...

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The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey, 1959-1964 מאת D’army Bailey When four black college students refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's on February 1, 1960, they set off a wave of similar protests among black college students across the South. Memphis native D'Army Bailey, the freshman class president at South...

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Sex at Noon Taxes: Poems (Walt Whitman Award) מאת Sally Van Doren Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in Sex at Noon Taxes mix straightforward narrative, midwestern vernacular, and linguistic ambivalence, embedded in which is a stru...

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Wings of Paradise: Birds of the Louisiana Wetlands מאת Charlie, Jr. Hohorst Located at the narrow end of the funnel-shaped Mississippi flyway zone, south Louisiana serves as a seasonal stopover for wintering birds from all across North America as well as for some neotropical birds from Central America. Many other bird species make the region their permanent home. For more...

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Treating the Trauma of the Great War: Soldiers, Civilians, and Psychiatry in France, 1914-1940 מאת Gregory M. Thomas From the outset of World War I, French doctors faced an apparent epidemic of puzzling neurological and psychiatric illnesses among soldiers. As they attempted to understand the causes of these illnesses, doctors organized specialized centers near the front, where they submitted soldiers to swift, hu...

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Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton מאת Carmen Trammell Skaggs In this exciting new work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera--both the art form and the social institution--in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Through the lens of opera, she maintains, major American writers--including Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, ...

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A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House (The Hill Collection: Holdings of the Lsu Libraries) מאת Danny Heitman As the summer of 1821 began, John James Audubon's ambition to create a comprehensive pictorial record of American birds was still largely a dream. Then, out of economic necessity, Audubon came to Oakley Plantation, a sprawling estate in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish. Teeming with an abundance of...

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Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) מאת Alexander X. Byrd Jamestown and Plymouth serve as iconic images of British migration to the New World. A century later, however, when British migration was at its peak, the vast majority of men, women, and children crisscrossing the Atlantic on English ships were of African, not English, descent. Captives and Vo...

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All Saints: New and Selected Poems מאת Brenda, Marie Osbey Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of 20 narrative poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, and converses with her Afro-New Orleans forebears. Assisted by a glossary of New Orleans ethnic expressions, place names, and characters, we discern in these ...

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The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) מאת Edward Bartlett Rugemer Winner of the 2009 Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, Edward Bartlett Rugemer places the origins of the war in a transatlan...

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Home Remedies מאת Sarah Kennedy In her powerful new collection, Sarah Kennedy draws on the historical record, as well her personal life, to explore relationships and bodies, both physical and textual. Kennedy underscores human frailty in poems that dramatize the lives of British women who kept recipe manuscripts containing both me...

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Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 (Southern Messenger Poets) מאת Eleanor Ross Taylor Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the p...

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A Wisconsin Yankee in the Confederate Bayou Country: The Civil War Reminiscences of a Union General מאת Halbert Eleazer Paine General Halbert Eleazer Paine, commanding officer of the 4th Wisconsin Regiment of Volunteers, took part in most of the significant military actions in the lower Mississippi Valley during the Civil War. Nearly forty years after the conflict's end, Paine--a former schoolteacher and attorney who would...

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The Waker's Corridor (Walt Whitman Award) מאת Jonathan Thirkield "I had a clock it woke all day," writes Jonathan Thirkield at the outset of The Waker's Corridor, a book that charts an assiduous attempt to recover lost time. Housed in elaborate and varied formal architectures, these poems navigate the disorder and gaps left by the violence of loss. All mea...