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Mark Twain
The Complete Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection.
This volume is an annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain spanning his entire career. In these interviews, Twain discusses such topical issues as his lecture style,...
by Eugene Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The matter-of-fact descriptive title of this interesting little volume on railroading in the pre–Civil War South does not do justice to Alvarez’s coverage of the subject. Along with his full account of trains and train accommodations, he manages to encompass a number of social, political, and even ideological subjects.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and significant Nobel Prize–winning American writer.
After a troubled career as a student at Yale, Sinclair...
The Pinochet Generation
The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Chilean soldiers in the twentieth century appear in most historical accounts, if they appear at all, as decontextualized figures or simply as a single man: Augusto Pinochet. In his incisive study The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century, John R. Bawden provides compelling...
by H. S. Halbert, T. H. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
The first edition of Halbert and Ball's Creek War was published in 1895, and a new edition containing an introductory essay, supplementary notes, a bibliography, and an index by Frank L. Owsley Jr., was published in 1969. This standard account of one of the most controversial wars in which Americans...
Native American Legends of the Southeast
Tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The study of legends has long been a critical component of cultural anthropological analysis. In Native American Legends of the Southeast, George E. Lankford has compiled and analyzed a collection of unique and rare legends that will continue to appeal to scholars and students of Native American culture and the study of legends in general.
Enduring Legacy
Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
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Rhetoric and ritual commemorating war has been a part of human culture for ages. In Enduring Legacy*,*W. Stuart Towns explores the crucial role of rhetoric and oratory in creating and propagating a “Lost Cause” public memory of the American...
Unfurl Those Colors
McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Unfurl Those Colors! provides an operational study of the Army of the Potomac during the pivotal Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, illuminating in details that will fascinate scholars and armchair generals alike US army commander George B. McClellan’s command decisions and how those decisions...
The Unwritten War
American Writers and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In The Unwritten War, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers—major and minor—who treated the Civil War in their works. He seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order, why...
by Buck T. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
The rehearsal for the March to the Sea
With the fall of Vicksburg to Union forces in mid-1863, the Federals began work to extend and consolidate their hold on the lower Mississippi Valley. As a part of this plan, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman set out from Vicksburg on February...
by Pierre Iberville
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Europe's expansion into the New World during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries was a story of power alignment and cultural transmission as well as dramatic individual effort. Spain had her conquistadores, France her coureurs de bois, and England her sea dogs. Isolated from the authority of home governments,...
Dividing Lines
Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots level. Thornton demonstrates that the movement had powerful local sources in its three birth cities—Montgomery,...
Victorian Domesticity
Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
The subject of Victorian Domesticity is family life in America. The life and works of Louisa May Alcott served as the vehicle for exploring and analyzing this subject. Although Alcott was deeply influenced by popular currents of sentimentality, her own experience exposed her to the confusions and...
A Conquering Spirit
Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2006
The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the national stage. The unprecedented Indian victory over the encroaching Americans who were bent on taking their lands and destroying their culture horrified...