Ghost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature ...

In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of ...

No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By ...

Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a 'house divided against ...

This sweeping history of the civil rights movement in the South's largest state tells of many Georgias. On one extreme is Atlanta, a metropolitan ...

Barbara L. Packer's long essay 'The Transcendentalists' is widely acknowledged by scholars of nineteenth-century American literary history as the ...

One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating ...

It is the mid-1950s in Quarrytown, Georgia. In the slum known as the Ape Yard, hope's last refuge is a boardinghouse where a handful of residents dream ...