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Invited Guest, as is the case with really good anthologies, significantly shapes the history of the literature it surveys." - Mary Ellis Gibson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, editor of Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers "Rigsbee and Brown have selected not only the well-known or signature poems, but also poems that are not often anthologized, making Invited Guest fresh and interesting. This work is enjoyable and in...

In this controversial history the author tells the story of how the Civil Warand slavery were intertwined, and how internal social conflict undermined theConfederacy in the end.

A journalist paddles his canoe through 400 years of American history in this compelling confluence of adventure and anecdote. Pointing his bow through the frontier past, Swift glides past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluient-spewing industry. Illustrations.

This booklet has been written to give a brief history of the most important aspects of the culture of the Indians of Virginia in the seventeenth century. Due to the lack of space, certain less important facets of their culture have been omitted.

A guide to getting the most out of your horse in a humane and sensitive way, this title begins with a history of educated horsemanship from the earliest published riding masters of the 16th century, presents the American forward riding system and examines ways in which a rider's position and controls are essential to the training of the horse.

Anyan was born in the mid-1920s into the pre-metal culture of the Tairora of what is now called Papua New Guinea. Her early life was rooted in the traditions of her remote village, where she worked the land and took part in the rituals connected with raising food, but she lived at the time of first contact between her people and those from "outside" and she saw the traditional ways begin to change. At her marriage she moved to the government s...

CULLED FROM the six volumes of The Diaries of George Washington completed in 1979, this selection of entries chosen by retired Washington Papers editor Dorothy Twohig reveals the lifelong preoccupations of the public and private man. Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the Frenc...

Leibiger has written an important narrative and analysis of the collaboration between Madison and Washington . . . that forces readers to rethink the history of the early Republic" --Choice

In 1957 and 1958 William Faulkner was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. During that time he held thirty-seven conferences and answered over two thousand questions on a wide range of concerns, from exegetic problems in his novels to the role of the writer in modern society. Almost every word was recorded on tape, and the result is the classic Faulkner in the University, first published in 1959 and now available in this paperbac...

A gay activist, NPR founder, and former Episcopal priest tells the story of his struggle with his culture and church doctrine. 23 illustrations.

Mixing chronological narrative with a full ecological portrait, anthropologists Rountree and Davidson have reconstructed the culture and history ofVirginia's and Maryland's Eastern Shore Indians from a.d. 800 until the last tribesdisbanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

In Earth Works, award-winning columnist Nancy R. Hugo presents amonth-by-month, season-by-season exploration of the pleasures and pains of gardeningin the mid-Atlantic. Readers familiar with her columns in the RichmondTimes-Dispatch and Virginia Wildlife will welcome this collection of her mostpopular essays, written in the characteristic conversational style that has made hera regional favorite. Earth Works has a wealth ofhelpful hints and se...