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Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia, this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analysed.

In these stories by Melissa Pritchard, the past brushes up against the present, the voices of both the sane and the obsessed are heard, and the spirits speaking unbidden through the mouths of some spurn others who desire them most.

Sandra Thompson takes us inside the lives of women struggling to find their places among lovers, husbands and ex-husbands, mothers, and children in relationships where old rules do not apply and new rules have not yet been set.Thompson's characters live in a world where dreams often supersede reality and things are not as they seem. Her style is sophisticated and subtle, and we experience her stories almost by osmosis. They stay with us afterwards to question their own realities.

Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution.

The 11 stories in this volume cover a range of eccentric characters, including a set of opposite-sex conjoined twins. Forced to deal with the debilitating confines of the physical world, Kellie Wells's characters struggle to transcend their existential disappointments and find someone to love.

Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story, The Accidental Slaveowner traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how different groups of people have struggled with one powerful story about slavery. Auslander's research helps open up important arenas for reconciliation, restorative justice, and social healing.

The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world's fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. This uses the exposition to examine the competing agendas of white supremacist organizers and the peoples of colour who participated.

The lives on view in Nervous Dancer are complex and precarious. Speaking their familial idioms in tones and cadences determined well before they ever appeared in these stories, Carol Lee Lorenzos characters surge into moments of change for reasons initially not apparent. In the quirky, hard-edged ways in which they stumble, beg, come of age, fall apart, and reunite, they reveal no simple notions about life.The way women and children see men is often the focus of these stories, and female voices are the most numerous in Nervous Dancer. Singularity of character can be found in anyone, however, such as the nameless father in Unconfirmed Invitations, whose guilt over his drinking and marital infidelities leads to a bizarre hunter-gatherer compulsion. Lorenzos women are often mothers, like LuAnn Wilson Hunter in Something Almost Invisible, who says of herself and her son that they are divorced from everything, we are all living in slow motion, not at home anywhere. Others find themselves in double binds with generational friction compounding their troubles, such as Eulene in Nervous Dancer, who informs her mother, Just because Im in your house doesnt mean Ive lost the right to fight with my husband.Lorenzo says that her characters are in the throes of love with its impurities or as sterling as it comes, and sometimes they trip the spring and the hard face of hate appears. She believes that its not always the outside force, someone elses doing, that changes things or brings confrontation. Its our stranger within-our unspoken self that frightens and engages us. Thats what story allows us to see.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia, this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analysed.

Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American music culture emerged as a way to bind together the varied, changing, and uncertain components of the new nation. This played out with particular intensity in the lower Mississippi River valley, and New Orleans especially. Ann Ostendorf argues that this region, often considered an exception to the nationwith its distance from the center of power, its non-British colonial past, and its varied populationactually shared characteristics of many other places eventually incorporated into the country, thus making it a useful case study for the creation of American culture.Ostendorf conjures the territory's phenomenally diverse music ways including grand operas and balls, performances by church choirs and militia bands, and itinerant violin instructors. Music was often associated with foreigners, in particular Germans, French, Irish, and Africans. For these outsiders, music helped preserve collective identity. But for critics concerned with developing a national culture, this multitude of influences presented a dilemma that led to an obsessive categorization of music with racial, ethnic, or national markers. Ultimately, the shared experience of categorizing difference and consuming this music became a unifying national phenomenon. Experiencing the unknown became a shared part of the American experience.

Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that Lyndon Johnson's programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal.

Demonstrates how many of the most influential novels from the 1960s onwards are united by the dramatic opposition they draw between a debased and untrustworthy conventional language, on the one hand, and a violence that appears to be prelinguistic and unquestionable, on the other.

Provides a new interpretation of how China's changed view of its modern historical experience has also changed China's understanding of its long intellectual and cultural tradition. The future of every major country is now connected to China's, and this book explains how China is poised to change the world.

As a young man, John B. Prentis (1788-1848) expressed outrage over slavery, but by the end of his life he had transported thousands of enslaved persons from the upper to the lower South. Kari J. Winter's life-and-times portrayal of a slave trader illuminates the clash between two American dreams: one of wealth, the other of equality.

Ideal for amateur birders, nature enthusiasts, and visitors to the Atlantic coast, this guide presents one hundred three species of birds commonly seen on the beaches and in the marsh and inland areas of Georgia's coastal region. Includes large color photos for easy identification.

John Bachman (1790 - 1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings, containing selections from his three major books, his letters, and his articles on plants and animals, education, religion, agriculture, and the human species.

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her fathers construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That first baptism began a lifelong relationship with a stunning and powerful river that almost nobody knows.The Altamaha rises dark and mysterious in southeast Georgia. It is deep and wide bordered by swamps. Its corridor contains an extraordinary biodiversity, including many rare and endangered species, which led the Nature Conservancy to designate it as one of the worlds last great places.The Altamaha is Rays river, and from childhood she dreamed of paddling its entire length to where it empties into the sea. Drifting into Darien begins with an account of finally making that journey, turning to meditations on the many ways we accept a world that contains both good and evil. With praise, biting satire, and hope, Ray contemplates transformation and attempts with every page to settle peacefully into the now.Though commemorating a history that includes logging, Ray celebrates a culture that sprang from the flatwoods, which required a judicious use of nature. She looks in vain for an ivorybill woodpecker but is equally eager to see any of the imperiled species found in the river basin: spiny mussel, American oystercatcher, Radfords mint, Alabama milkvine. The book explores both the need and the possibilities for conservation of the river and the surrounding forests and wetlands. As in her groundbreaking Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Ray writes an account of her beloved river that is both social history and natural history, understanding the two as inseparable, particularly in the rural corner of Georgia that she knows best. Ray goes looking for wisdom and finds a river.

Exploring a variety of writers over an array of time periods, subject matter, race and ethnicity, sexual preference, tradition, genre, and style, this volume collects the voices of distinguished feminist critics who explore the fruits of the dramatic and celebrated growth of American women writers today.

Offers stories of survival and experience, of the tenacity of social justice in the face of a natural disaster, and of how recovery from Camille worked for some but did not work for others.

The Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories of the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to explain how this memory gave the white South a sense of national meaning. This book investigates the civil religious perspectives of a wide array of groups.

In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world.In the title story an aunt recounts the harsh legacy of Indian boarding schools that tried to break the indigenous culture. In doing so she passes on to her niece the Ojibwe tradition of honoring elders through their stories. In Refugees Living and Dying in the West End of Duluth, this same niece comes of age in the 1970s against the backdrop of her forcibly dispersed family. A cycle of boarding schools, alcoholism, and violence haunts these stories even as the characters find beauty and solace in their large extended families.With its attention to the Ojibwe language, customs, and history, this unique collection of riveting stories illuminates the very nature of storytelling. The Dance Boots narrates a centurys evolution of Native Americans making choices and compromises, often dictated by a white majority, as they try to balance survival, tribal traditions, and obligations to future generations.

Featuring poems inhabited by Charles Darwin and climate scientists, Beethoven and Elliott Smith, this title helps you find a way to navigate the beauty and fears native to modern life. It explores various types of damage with which humans are so closely entwined, from our encroachment on nature, to our propensity to give in to our worst impulses.

As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes and to organise boycotts and voter registration drives. In this compelling study of collective memory and artistic production, Minrose Gwin engages the powerful body of work that has emerged in response to Evers's life and death - fiction, poetry, memoir, drama, and songs.

Provides a meditation on the sensual and spiritual aspects of gardening. McHatton believes gardening is an art-a method of expression analogous to sculpture or dance. He carefully dissects the delicate components of a garden, explaining how one can pinpoint the intricate and harmonious tastes, sounds, and odors flowing freely among the plants.

Roland McMillan Harper (1878-1966) had perhaps 'the greatest store of field experience of any living botanist of the Southeast,' according to Bassett Maguire, the renowned plant scientist of the New York Botanical Garden. This book provides a biography of the accomplished botanist, documentary photographer, and explorer.

Illustrates how reformers used the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates. This book presents Emersonian self-reliance as an effort to transform the partisan nature of reform discourse into a model of sincere public speech.

Glenn Feldman examines the 1901 referendum in Alabama to introduce a constitution that would effectively disenfranchise the majority of African Americans in the state. The property qualification would also disenfranchise many poor whites, yet the poor white community was deeply divided on the issue.