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  • av Thomas Wolfe
    467

  • - The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900
    av William E. Montgomery
    547

    A comprehensive treatment of the black church and the southern environment in which it functioned from 1865 to 1900.

  • - From 1542 to the Present Louisiana
    av Fred B. Kniffen, Hiram F. Gregory & George A. Stokes
    537

    Here is the most complete account available of the long and varied history of Louisiana's Native American population. Focusing on the history and cultural evolution of the state's Indians, The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana identifies various tribal groups, charts their migrations within the state, and discusses their languages and customs. The book describes the Indians' methods of tribal and political organization, their manners of dress and adornment, the arts and crafts they perfected both for economic and aesthetic purposes, the role of religion in their lives, and a great deal more. It also analyzes the inevitable changes that the arrival of European settlers brought to the Indians' way of life.

  • - Popular Thought During the Sectional Conflict
    av Randall C. Jimerson
    547

  • - Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65
    av Grady McWhiney
    537

    An important primary source for eighty years, Lee's Dispatches is now once again available to Civil War scholars, students, and enthusiasts. When first published in 1914, these letters, written between June 2, 1862, and April 1, 1865, put Lee's strategy in clearer perspective and shed new light on certain of his moves.

  • av Emma Holmes & Marszalek
    627

    Two months before the Civil War broke out, Emma Holmes made the first entry in a diary that would eventually hold vivid firsthand accounts of several major historical events. In presenting her picture of the wartime South, Holmes discussed numerous military figures, the role of women in the war effort, and the religious and social life of the day.

  • - A Novel
    av Elizabeth Spencer
    537

  • av T. Harry Williams & Edward Cunningham
    547

    The determination with which the Confederate garrison of Port Hudson, Louisiana, held out--for seven weeks, fewer than 5,000 Confederate troops fended off almost 30,000 Yankees--makes it one of the most interesting campaigns of the Civil War. It was, in fact, the longest siege in U.S. military history. Edward Cunningham tells for the first time the complete story of the Union operation against this Confederate stronghold on the Lower Mississippi.

  • av Alison Hawthorne Deming
    327

    Alison Hawthorne Deming brings to her first collection of verse the kinds of scrupulous observation and clear-eyed analysis that characterize scientific inquiry as well as a poet's eye for the telling moment.

  • av Charles Royster
    537

    Takes an ingenious, creative approach in his consideration of the life of one of the American Revolution's heroes. Charles Royster argues that Lee's tragic life was different only in degree from those of many other patriots of the Revolution who viewed the peacetime fruits of their efforts with disappointment.

  • - Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
    av Michael R. Allen
    557

    Western Rivermen, the first documented sociocultural history of its subject, is a fascinating book. Michael Allen explores the rigorous lives of professional boatmen who plied non-steam vessels--flatboats, keelboats, and rafts--on the Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers from 1763-1861. Allen first considers the mythical "half horse, half alligator" boatmen who were an integral part of the folklore of the time. Americans of the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War period perceived the rivermen as hard-drinking, straight-shooting adventurers on the frontier. Their notions were reinforced by romanticized portrayals of the boatmen in songs, paintings, newspaper humor, and literature. Allen contends that these mythical depictions of the boatmen were a reflection of the yearnings of an industrializing people for what they thought to be a simpler time. Allen demonstrates, however, that the actual lives of the rivermen little resembled their portrayals in popular culture. Drawing on more than eighty firsthand accounts--ranging from a short letter to a four-volume memoir--he provides a rounded view of the boatmen that reveals the lonely, dangerous nature of their profession. He also discusses the social and economic aspects of their lives, such as their cargoes, the river towns they visited, and the impact on their lives of the steamboat and advancing civilization. Allen's comprehensive, highly informative study sheds new light on a group of men who played an important role in the development of the trans-Appalachian West and the ways in which their lives were transformed into one of the enduring themes of American folk culture.

  • - The Legacy of Political Theory
    av Kenneth W. Thompson
    467

    In Fathers of International Thought, renowned foreign affairs scholar Kenneth W. Thompson returns to the writings of sixteen thinkers in order better to understand the issues and problems that recurrently beset global politics.

  • - Soldier, Southerner, American
    av Ralph Lowell Eckert
    621

    John Brown Gordon's career of prominent public service spanned four of America's most turbulent decades. Utilizing newspapers, scattered manuscript collections, and official records, Ralph Eckert presents a critical biography of Gordon that analyses all areas of his career.

  • - The Political Dimension
    av Robert W. Johannsen
    387

    Traces the political dimension of Lincoln's antislavery stance as it evolved from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 to his election as president in 1860. Robert Johannsen sees Lincoln as an astute and ambitious politician whose statements where shaped and directed by the time's ever-changing political exigencies and considerations.

  • - A Poem in Four Voices
    av Margaret Gibson
    361

    In The Vigil, Margaret Gibson adroitly interweaves the voices of four women, mothers and daughters of three generations, who, during the course of a single day, reveal the depths of the legacy of alcoholism in their family. On this one day of startling revelations, the full extent of the family's secrets, kept still in the sweep of the years, begins to emerge. As the history of loss and regret unfolds, the women begin to sense those things within them, yet to be spoken, that have passed down from mother to daughter. In the end, we see the four women poised, however precariously, on the thresholds of trust, candor, forgiveness, and love.

  • av D. Clayton James
    537

    Antebellum Natchez is most often associated with the grand and romantic aspects of the Old South and its landed gentry. Yet there was, as this book illustrates, another Natchez, the Natchez of ordinary citizens, small businessmen, and free Negroes, and the Natchez under-the-Hill of brawling boatmen, professional gamblers, and bold-faced strumpets.

  • - The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871-1960
    av Stephen J. Ochs
    537

    Drawing on extensive research in the previously closed or unavailable archives of numerous archdioceses, diocese, and religious communities, Stephen Ochs shows that, in many cases, Roman catholic authorities purposely excluded Afro-Americans from their seminaries.

  • av Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr
    547

    Presents an innovative study of Flannery O'Connor's fiction by exploring the dialogic forces at work in her writing. Drawing on the insights of Mikhail Bakhtin, Robert Brinkmeyer offers an explanation for the great depth and power of O'Connor's work, paying particular attention to the ways her art and audience bear upon her regnant Catholic vision.

  • - War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877
    av Ted Tunnell
    547

    Examines the byzantine complexities of Louisiana's restoration to the Union, from the capture of New Orleans to the downfall of the Radical Republicans a decade and a half later. Ted Tunnell writes with insight about wartime Reconstruction and the period of presidential Reconstruction, but his ultimate concern is with Radical Reconstruction.

  • - Poems
    av Kathryn Stripling Byer
    327

  • - The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
    av Scott Ellsworth
    377

    Exhaustively researched, Death in a Promised Land is the compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom.

  • - Selected Essays, 1938-1988
    av John Hope Franklin
    537

    John Hope Franklin, one of the US's foremost historians, collects twenty-seven of his most influential shorter writings. The essays are presented thematically and include pieces on southern history; significant but neglected historical figures; historiography; and the connection between historical problems and contemporary issues.

  • - Theory and Practice
    av Kenneth W. Thompson
    537

    In this informed and comprehensive assessment of current issues in international politics, Kenneth W. Thompson addresses the role that traditions and values play in shaping change and in helping us to understand its implications.

  • - World Polarization, 1943-1953
    av Kenneth W. Thompson
    547

    In this first of a two-volume examination of the Cold War, Kenneth Thompson offers an account of its history and its historians. Thompson's aim is to find the best framework for understanding how the Cold War started, what forces produced it, how Soviet and American policies intensified the conflict, and what alternatives were open to the rivals.

  • av Richard E. Chandler & Kessel Schwartz
    537

    First published in 1961, A New History of Spanish Literature has been a much-used resource for generations of students. The book has now been completely revised and updated to include extensive discussion of Spanish literature of the past thirty years.

  • - Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
    av Thomas Reed Turner
    547

    Pushes away the elaborate conspiracy theories that have always surrounded Abrham Lincoln's death and uncovers exactly what can be known about the murder and its aftermath. Thomas Reed Turner strips away more than a century of speculation to retell with hard facts the history of Abraham Lincoln's death.

  • av Eric Anderson & Alfred A. Moss Jr
    547

    Thirty years after the publication of John Hope Franklin's influential interpretative essay Reconstruction, ten distinguished scholars have contributed to a new appraisal of Reconstruction scholarship. Recognising Professor Franklin's major contributions to the study of the era, their work of analysis and review has been dedicated to him.

  • - Poems
    av Carole Simmons Oles
    327

    In Carole Simmons Oles's fourth collection of poetry, small events of everyday life throw open a door to meditations on the absence of a husband, on the separation from children, and on the sustenance gained from friendship and the sorrow its loss. Each poem has an ambitious range, sure in its leap from subject to subject.

  • - Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present
    av David Goldfield
    537

    Shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their white counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without destroying the South's unique culture. Indeed, the book argues that the civil rights crusade has strengthened the South's cultural heritage.

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