Dante Germino's biography of the Italian communist and political theorist Antonio Gramsci offers a major reassessment of this important twentieth-century ...

In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes-the United States, Brazil, and Cuba-witnessed explosive commercial ...

Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system ...

"Carter's poems are utterly unique-wry and quiet and carrying a velvet sledgehammer. Her pitch, her tone, her sly humor is perfectly tuned. This is not ...

Examines the paradox that communities famous for their cohesiveness and moral stability were in fact oppressive along race and class lines. The author ...

Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic ...

In You Cannot Shoot a Poem , Paula Closson Buck offers sharp-witted, deeply felt, and skillfully structured poems. With clear and powerful imagery, these ...