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Raised to Rule
The children of Philip III of Spain (1578–1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584–1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate …
The Life of Johnny Reb
In this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and …
When the War Was Over
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an …
The Politics of Rage
Combining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wallace, a populist who abandoned his ideals to become a …
Alive Together
A collection of poems addresses such topics as family history, music, language, art, and mortality
Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women
Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the …
The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth
Although her poems are little know today, Lady Mary Wroth was one of the most accomplished women writers of the English Renaissance. Her poems were circulated among many of the …
Fluid States
A collection of lyric essays that considers the way subjects, stories, facts, and memories are as interconnected as streams in a watershed, Heidi Czerwiec's Fluid States explores …
The March to the Sea and Beyond
In November, 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led an army of veteran Union troops through the heart of the Confederacy, leaving behind a path of destruction in an area …
I'll Take My Stand
First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-Donald Davidson, …
The Hills Beyond
The third and last book culled from the mountain of manuscript Thomas Wolfe left behind, The Hills Beyond ""contains some of his best, and certainly his most mature, work"" - New …