Critics often trace the prevailing mood of despair and purported nihilism in the works of Cormac ...

From the stately Gothic Revival and Regency-style houses of Savannah to the majestic, multicolumn...

Allen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history o...

New Orleans is a city of contradictions: comic and tragic, sacred and secular, profound and profa...

In The French 75, John Maxwell Hamilton tracks down the many lives of this protean cocktail. The ...

'Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while...

In Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War,Foster Cham...

Tongues of Fire is a collection of sermons and other writings by Black preachers that speak direc...

The Devil's Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy's Mississippi Squadron,...

In A Feminist, Queer Adventure Line,Ashley P. Jones explores how digital games can facilitate act...

The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingw...

'Inventions on the Brink, a collection of literary journalism by J. T. Barbarese, offers engaging...

'Driving the Beast is a book about movement. Christopher Bakken's poems shift between Greece and ...

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Queer Allusion uncovers the crucial but underexamined role played by literary allusion in shaping...

In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished po...

In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this...

In Crucible of Reconstruction, Ted Tunnell unravels the byzantine complexities of Louisiana's res...

This provocative study examines Theodore Roosevelt's ideas about race, focusing especially on his...

Brinkmeyer offers an explanation for the great depth and power of O'Connor's work,paying particul...

In the autumn of 1857, sustained runs on New York banks led to a panic atmosphere that affected t...

David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing s...

Historians have come to think on the late nineteenth century as America's Gilded Age. But in Loui...

In Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion, Ritchie Devon Watson,...

Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Recon...

Alison Hawthorne Deming brings to her first collection of verse the kinds of scrupulous observati...

Kate Chopin was a nationally acclaimed short story artist of the local-color school when, in 1899...

In Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth, George S. Lensing examines Stevens' gradual emergence and de...

A comprehensive treatment of the black church and the southern environment in which it functioned...

In this exciting study, J. William Harris explores two great ironies of American history-the Sout...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the theatrical center of the United ...

Sportsmen will find pleasant reading in this rich collection of authentic tales of hunting in the...

In his compelling new collection, David Huddle writes, 'We think we stand in the vivid color of h...

Recent interest in the life and works of John Crowe Ransom has brought to light the many apparent...

To her self-posed questions ''What is a woman's narrative?'' and ''Why Warren?'' Lucy Ferriss res...

When a crowd began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921,...

Ines Murat's readable and entertaining narrative introduces us to little-known facts about the ad...

A prominent Louisiana political scientist makes plain the reasons for the state's political pecul...

John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren, each began his career as ...

From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences 'Via Appia' and 'To ...

An important primary source for eighty years, Lee's Dispatches is now once again available to Civ...

Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of ...

In The Long Fault, Jay Rogoff explores how the disasters of human history scar the individual psy...

A decade and more has passed since the first publication of Still Rebels, Still Yankees. During t...

Robert Kirschten maintains that most formal analyses of Jams Dickey's poetry have been unsatisfac...

The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevatedconversation...

'Anna Journey's poetry is really magical.'-David Lynch, director of Blue Velvet and creator of Tw...

In The Origins of American Constitutionalism, Donald S. Lutz challenges the prevailing notion tha...