With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their ...

This volume contains poems by: Almond, Austin, Gaine, Baringer, Blundell, Brackin, Braswell, Brown, Burnett, Cameron, Champenois, Clark, Cooper, Creekmore ...

Defining liberty as balance between freedom and security, the author speculates on the possibilities of the preservation of liberty and the Union. This ...

Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal ...

Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser's Experience ...

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Paul Escott's sensitive ...

This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines ...

In this compelling history of progressive evangelicalism, Brantley Gasaway examines a dynamic though often overlooked movement within American Christianity ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class ...

This is the biographical story of the Old Dominion in the light of its contribution to the greatness of America. Volume I deals with the colonial era, ...