This volume is the proceedings from the 1974 Southern Appalachian Regional Conference which was sponsored by the Appalachian Consortium Press. This was ...

This volume examines divided loyalties between Union and Confederate forces in an eastern North Carolina county. The author painstakingly identifies those ...

In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina , escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no ...

Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States ...

This anthology of Appalachian literature is designed for high school students, containing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, ballads, and examples of ...

Contributors to this volume of essays on Francis Petrarch are Aldo Scaglione, Joseph G. Fucilla, Thomas G. Bergin, Maria Picchio Simonelli, Fredi Chiappelli ...

Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the West Indies to an English reading public that was largely ...

By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of ...

Mountains Have Come Closer is a collection of poems by Jim Wayne Miller which draw on his life experiences growing up and living in Appalachia. Miller ...

Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably ...