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Faithful Deliberation
Investigates the rhetorical practices that contemporary evangelical Christian women use to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their …
Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt
How the 1863 elections in Perry County changed the course of Alabama’s role in the Civil War In his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis D. English analyzes why Perry county, …
My Father's War
My Father's War tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II. The 92nd Division of the …
Life in a Mississippian Warscape
Analyzes Mississippian daily life at Cahokia’s environs during wartime In Life in a Mississippian Warscape: Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare Meghan E. Buchanan …
Malignant Growth
An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, …
Headwaters
Headwaters is a breathtaking portrait of Alabama rivers. From their primal seepages in the Appalachian highlands or along the broad Chunnenuggee Hills, Alabama's rivers carve …
Philip Henry Gosse
Philip Henry Gosse’s detailed watercolors of Alabama’s native insects and plants represent a landmark in the annals of American natural history. Offered for the first time are the …
Lincoln's Trident
In Lincoln’s Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union’s naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil …
Archipelagoes of My South
"The tourist archipelagoes of my South / are prisons, too, corruptible" writes the poet Derek Walcott. While Walcott refers to the islands of the Caribbean, the analogous idea of a …
Speaking with the Ancestors
When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native …
Building a Nation
Examines the growth of the Chickasaw Nation and argues that it is using museums and heritage sites as places to define itself as a coherent and legitimate contemporary Indian …
Ancient Ocean Crossings
Ancient Ocean Crossings paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated …