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Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States--the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp--this ... collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical ...

Accompanies an exhibit at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum.

Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell maintained lifelong, well-documented friendships with one another, often discussing each other's work in private correspondence and published reviews. The author's work traces the artistic and personal connections between the three writers. Her study uncovers the significance of their parallel literary development and reevaluates dominant views of how American poetry evolved during the mid...

Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, "Southern Comforts" explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South. Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and mythologies that obscure what drinking has m...

With the rise of Jimmy Carter, a former Georgia governor and a relative newcomer to national politics, the 1976 presidential election proved a transformative moment in U.S. history, heralding a change in terms of how candidates run for public office and how the news media cover their campaigns. Amber Roessner's "Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign" chronicles a change in the negotiation of political image craft and the ro...

As a prominent historian recently noted in the Washington Post, "The common understanding of the Prohibition Era is based more on folklore than fact." This volume aims to correct common misconceptions about American prohibition in ten essays from scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of the era. Each contributor unravels one myth and reveals the historical evidence that supports, refutes, or complicates a deeply embe...

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Ross Brooks has given us an innovative and multifaceted portrayal of the material world of the Confederacy. Integrating cartoons, photographs, currency, paintings, and clothing, he captures people trying to fashion a nation out of few materials and limited time."--Edward L. Ayers, author of The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America "Brooks comprehensively explores not just the obvious sources like publis...

A remarkable collective autobiography of how a generation of women historians of the American South challenged and overcame entrenched perceptions in allegedly enlightened academia to build successful teaching and research careers not only for themselves, but also for the women who came after them. Each account is both frustrating and inspiring: there were indeed no straight paths to success, and the work for full equality is not yet over."--D...

In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that popular historical romances unified communities of creole readers by giving them lost love objects they could mourn together, allowing citizens of newly ...

Haunting the spheres of womb and bone and mother-longing, Leanna Petronella is so good! These are poems wet with blood and blooming with mystery, and we need them in our dry garden of a world." --Melissa Broder, author of Last Sext"This is a book of transport that turns the imagination into a bathysphere, a spacecraft, a carousel. Petronella is not afraid to examine matters of sex, blood, private calamity with bold wit and verve. And while a w...

An invaluable, unusual book born from careful, well-organized, sustained collaboration among leading scholars from Senegal, France, the United States, and Canada. It helps put Africa into African-Atlantic Studies."--Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links "This is a conceptually ambitious Atlantic history that takes a looking glass approach to illuminate the trajectories of two port ...

Preserving Our Roots explores the meanings of lives in which one grows one's own food, saves one's own seed, and shares meals with one's family and neighbors. Coykendall and Melton have captured it all--the seed lore, the recipes, the tales..."--David S. Shields, author of Southern Provisions: The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine.uisine.

The 31st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was one of only a handful of New England units to serve in Louisiana and the Gulf region during the Civil War, and, of those, it remained there the longest. Its soldiers, most of whom were impressionable young men from small towns in central and western Massachusetts, assumed numerous roles, functioning as infantry, cavalry, and mounted infantry when needed. The regiment operated as an army of...

Grace King's correspondence is a unique view of the warmth and intimacy she encountered as a southerner welcomed into the elite post-Civil War bastion of northern civility and culture. Her letters humanize our understanding of Mark Twain and bring us inside the world that the Warner and Clemens families, and their personal and professional acquaintances, shared, and into which Grace King was welcomed and cherished. Miki Pfeffer's carefully ass...

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This book is a genre all its own. Renowned archaeologist and raconteur, Jon Gibson, blends travel adventure, science mystery, autobiography, history of science, and fantasy in a pleasurable narration of the discoveries in America's oldest mounds. Gibson recounts the first World Trade Center-like disaster of the Americas over 3000 years ago, as well as the construction and exaltation of giant pyramids at Poverty Point, revealing a social and em...

Professor Joseph Arthur Simon has written a masterful study of Marine Corps Commandant John A. Lejeune in The Greatest of All Leathernecks. Insightful, balanced, and archival-driven, Simon's documentary will stand as a biographical classic of an extraordinary Marine."--Manley R. Irwin, Professor Emeritus, University of New Hampshire"Joe Simon has used his exhaustive research and compelling narrative skills to present the life of John Archer Le...

Through Mark Twain's iconic river books, the Mississippi has become an imagined river as much as a real one. Yet despite the central place that Twain's river occupies in the national imaginary, until now no work has explored the shifting meaning of this crucial connection in a single volume.