These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion ...

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The mountains of western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina are a hikers paradise--rich with human history and home to some of the greatest biological ...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal ...

Forms of Contention argues for the centrality of sonnet writing to African American poetry, focusing on significant sonnets, key anthologies, and critical ...

In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gilmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds ...

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about the constructions of American nationhood and national citizenship, the frequently invoked concept ...

As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no one ...

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared ...