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In this, his first book, originally published in 1971, noted historian Emory M. Thomas offers an ...

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This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers -- George W...

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In one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologist...

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Born in rural Winn Parish, Louisiana, Huey P. Long grew up to become the most influential governo...

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One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, Jo...

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Dear Almost is a book-length poem addressed to an unborn child lost in miscarriage. Beginning wit...

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Using as their starting point a 1976 Newsweek cover story on the emerging politicization of evang...

In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West...

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Born, raised, and retired in Mississippi, Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895--1997) was a champion for...

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