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Patrick Henry Jones's obituary vowed that "his memory shall not fade among men." Yet in little more than a century, history has largely forgotten Jones's considerable accomplishments in the Civil War and the Gilded Age that followed. In this masterful biography, Mark Dunkelman resurrects Jones's story and restores him to his rightful standing.

Explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history of the US South, but also as a screenwriter, aviator, and celebrity.

After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Tin Pan Alley, once New York City's songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating an imaginary view of the South.

Perhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Through the use of primary sources, Ronald Drez provides a deeper understanding of Britain's objectives, and offers a compelling account of this pivotal moment in American history.

Unlike much military history that focuses on grand strategies, Earl Hess zeroes in on formations and manoeuvres (or primary tactics), describing their purpose and usefulness in regimental case studies, and pinpointing which of them were favourites of unit commanders in the field.

More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political culture in antebellum Alabama. Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic society governed by a planter elite.

Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and ignited the American Civil War.

The final volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy through the completion of his two monumental works on the history of the Confederate States of America.

In the autumn of 1871, Alexis Romanov, the fourth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, set sail from his homeland for an extended journey through the United States and Canada. Alexis in America recounts the duke's progress through the major American cities.

American and European scholars approach this infamous storm and its aftermath through a variety of disciplines, from music to geography to anthropology, creating a nuanced understanding of how society reacts to and later remembers times of disaster.

From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her first story, to the reflective widow she described in her last novel, Eudora Welty wrote realistically about the shadows and radiance of love. In an exploration of this theme, Sally Wolff combines readings of Welty's fiction with contextual information drawn from her friendship with Welty.

Food sets the tempo of life in the Bayou State, where people believed in eating locally and seasonally long before it was fashionable. Maggie Heyn Richardson takes readers to local farms, meat markets, restaurants, festivals, competitions, and roadsides to reveal the love, pride, and cultural importance of Louisiana's cuisine.

In the first collection of published writings of Thomas Affleck, Lake Douglas re-establishes the reputation of a tireless agricultural reformer, entrepreneur, and horticulturist. Affleck's wide range of interests should afford him a celebrated status in several disciplines; yet until now his immense contributions remained largely unheralded.

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America's golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output that white Creoles used to imagine themselves as a unified community of writers and readers.

Chronicles Barbara Barnes Sims's career at Sun Records, a pivotal time at this recording mecca, as she darted from disc jockeys to distributors. Sims not only entertains with personal stories of big personalities, but also brings humour to the challenges of a young woman working in a fast and tough industry.

The stories in John Warner's Tough Day for the Army move from hilarious and biting to unsettling and sad - sometimes within the span of a few pages. With comic and tender rambunctiousness, his satirical voice parries and thrusts its way through each narrative, combining a strong wit with a soft heart.

The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans.

An authoritative lineup of contributors reintroduces Louisiana through the lenses of environment, geography, history, politics, religion, culture, language, sports, literature, film, music, architecture, food, and art. These essays present a fresh and expansive look at the enchanting and perplexing Pelican State.

Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. This book tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists who moved beyond their humble origins to change the face of American music.

The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book tells the story of the rise of the industry in El Dorado and the labour force - composed primarily of black women - upon which it came to rely.

Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War veterans' commemorative efforts and the concomitant - and sometimes conflicting - movement for reconciliation.

American rivers are among the most diverse and challenging in the world, and for many the escape they offer develops into a lifelong pursuit. In Downstream Toward Home, Oliver Houck recounts his six decades exploring America's waterways, from unnamed creeks and Louisiana swamps to the rivers of western canyons and the Alaskan tundra.

Offering new insights into Florida's position within the cultural legacy of the South, The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami explores the long fight for civil rights in one of America's most popular tourist destinations.

Explores the reasons for US Congress's decline in public opinion, and proposes remedies to reverse the grave dysfunction in America's most important political institution. Robert Mann and his contributors identify partisan rancour as perhaps the most significant reason for the American public's declining support of its main representative body.

A groundbreaking new study of Anglo-American relations during the Cold War, Diplomacy at the Brink argues for a reevaluation of Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign policy toward allies and enemies alike.

From the emerging field of disability studies, Taylor Hagood offers the first book-length consideration of impairment in William Faulkner's life and writing. Blending biography, textual analysis, and theory in an experimental style, Hagood explores in both form and content the constructs of normality and their power.

Bound together by social, demographic, and economic commonalities, the territory extending from East Texas to West Florida occupies a unique space in early American history. The result of two decades of scholarly work, this volume examines the region's history from the eve of European colonization to the final imposition of American hegemony.

Examines the transition from farm to factory in the American south and explores the dramatic reshaping of the region's economy. The book considers the role played by the recipients of government funds in the mid-twentieth century and demonstrates how communities exerted an unparalleled influence over federal investments.

In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was 'ready for its new Golden Age'. Thomas Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim.