This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with ...

In this collection, Jacqueline Osherow gives us perfectly formed, musical poems that glide between the worlds of art, architecture, literature, and religion. ...

Tracing the concept of the open society-one based on the idea of a universal community of mankind-from its origins to the present day, Dante Germino reveals ...

A Depression-era comic masterpiece, E. P. O'Donnell's The Great Big Doorstep centers on the Crochets, a Cajun family who live in a ramshackle house between ...

The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevated conversational tone, which flows from intimate secrets to wider social ...

Passionately written and perfectly crafted, Anya Krugovoy Silver's poems help us to view life through a different lens. In I Watched You Disappear, she ...

“Phillips came close to greatness as a historian, perhaps as close and any historian this country has produced. We may leave to those who live in ...

In this innovative book, Martyn Bone explores perspectives of the southern "sense of place" and examines it in a national and global context. Bone assesses ...

In Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John C. Rodrigue examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labor in one enclave of ...