This book uses traditional methods to show that Edith Wharton's learning in literature and the fi...

This book explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Ameri...

Explores many of Wharton's major novels - ''The House of Mirth'', ''The Fruit of the Tree'', ''Th...

Groundbreaking essays in urban archaeology highlight the impact of towns and cities on the southe...

'A picturesque account of life on Semmes's ship.'

The intricate personal relationships of a notable Alabama family. Known respectively as the chief...

Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between...

A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers who p...

Contributors: J. Jeffery Auer, Jeff D. Bass, Jane Blankenship, Robert J. Branham, DeLysa Burnier,...

With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents the story of...

Gertrude Stein is recognized as an iconic and canonical literary modernist. In Gertrude Stein and...

Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace's career as a national figure, 'Stand Up for...

'The 'state church' of Alabama is Southern Baptist. One in every four inhabitants of that state a...

Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground...

'First published in 1940 as part of the information-gathering effort of the TVA, the work examine...

Uneasy in Babylon is based on extensive interviews with the most important Southern Baptist conse...

'Henderson's very insightful examination of Atlanta Life and the black insurance industry in gene...

The basic account of the evolution of public works policy in the early years of the Depression. L...

The World Through the Dime Store Door

Close readings of Burke's public discourse and political writings

'Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain' is a collection of the most colorful and vivacious...

The stormy life of one of the most colorful and complex characters in early 19th-century medicine

There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War ...

Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse is a memoir of the authors year as a young and inexperienced teacher in ...

Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-class...

A standard course book for students of linguistics.

In 1966, Samuel Hill's Southern Churches in Crisis argued that southern Protestantism, a cornerst...

The essays in this collection were selected from among papers delivered at the April 2002 Southea...

Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt

A thorough examination of the life and work of Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, an important contributo...

'These letters are of interest for their vivid descriptions of life on the early Alabama frontier...

This volume addresses the problem of how Caribbean nations deal with the challenges of protecting...

Examines Unitarianism's position as an influential religious movement in the early history of the...

This text studies the ecology of animals, plants and their habitats and promotes awareness of pre...

A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of lit...

'In lesser hands, this biography would have been either a panegyric or a burlesque. Instead, the ...

An important anthology putting the leading topics in Southern anthropology in the context of the ...

Marcia Jacobson's Being a Boy Again identifies a literary genre that flourished between the Civil...

Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in w...

Representing work by a mixture of veterans and a new generation of lithic analysts, Contemporary ...

'An impressive achievement.... Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set with...

This text confronts questions public managers face in their efforts to meet demands of reform and...

This intriguing study explores the power and artistry of prophecy among the Mississippi Band of C...

'For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1...

This new edition and update of the seminal study, 'Power, Authority, and the Origins of American ...

Alabama is a state rich in folksong tradition, from old English ballads sung along the Tennessee ...

In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black...

Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to...