'Beyond Katrina' is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever ...

First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux ...

Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined ...

In Karin Lin-Greenberg's Faulty Predictions , young characters try to find their way in the world and older characters confront regrets. In 'Editorial ...

Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U. S. Southeast. ...

Too often, says Jennifer L. Goloboy, we equate being middle class with 'niceness'--a set of values frozen in the antebellum period and centered on long-term ...