A unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War that offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front.
At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki.
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice.
While African National Congress narratives dominate much of the scholarship on South Africa's freedom struggle, Josie Mpama/Palmer's political life offers a different perspective.
Following tirailleurs senegalais' deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how African servicemen advanced conjugal strategies with women at home and abroad.
Polish emigres have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction.
Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there.
Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood.
In spite of Robert Frost's continuing popularity with the public, the poet remains an outsider in the academy, where more "e;difficult"e; and "e;innovative"e; poets like T.
From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture.
Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the postWorld War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature Eliza Potters 1859 autobiography, A Hairdressers Experience in High Life.
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britains largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order.
In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment.
Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks.
David Ruggles (18101849) was one of the most heroic and has been one of the most often overlooked figures of the early abolitionist movement in America.
One of the Souths most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lees cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer.
In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy.
Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War.
Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history.
The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national even international indignation against the evils of slavery.
In the quarter century after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States.
Born during the Civil War, Josephus Daniels has lived a remarkably full life and played a substantial part in one of the most significant periods of our nations history.
This volume, rich in its first-hand knowledge of men and events, begins with the years of Clevelands second administration, covers the meteoric rise of Bryan, and ends with Josephus Danielss appointment as secretary of the navy under Wilson.
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputedthe notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century.
Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; Old Elizabeth, an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844 these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America.
North Carolinas Paul Green (18941981) was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world.
A 2026 PROSE Award Category Winner for Biography and Autobiography Charlie Chaplin, the silent screen's "e;Little Tramp,"e; was beloved by millions of movie fans until he starred in a series of salacious, real-life federal courtroom dramas.
