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Local lore about supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans, finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful slaves, and menacing gypsies haunting nearly every corner of the city, from the streets of the French Quarter to Garden District mansions.

Huey "Piano" Smith's musical legacy stands alongside that of fellow New Orleans legends Dr. John, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Doe, and Allen Toussaint. This first biography of Smith follows the musician's extraordinary life from his Depression-era childhood to his teen years as a pianist for Guitar Slim to his mainstream success in the '50s and '60s.

Offers rich insights into the closing chapter of Robert Penn Warren's professional and personal life, making it an essential resource for understanding the full scope of the author's contribution to American letters.

The first critical study of William Styron since his death in 2006, Rereading William Styron offers an eloquent reflection on the writer's works, world, and character. Gavin Cologne-Brookes combines personal anecdote, scholarly research, travel writing, and primary material to provide fresh perspectives on Styron's achievements.

When the Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and Hannah Rorem founded a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China in the 1890s, they could not have foreseen the ways in which that decision would ripple across generations of the Ronning family. This extraordinary account offers modern readers a remarkable look at a world long gone.

While a political refugee in London, former Confederate general John G. Walker wrote a history of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. Walker's account, composed shortly after the war and unpublished until now, remains one of only two memoirs by high-ranking Confederate officials who fought in the Trans-Mississippi theatre.

In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the American South. Traveling from state to state, two College Board staff members, waged "a campaign of quiet persuasion" and establishes a roster of desegregated test centers within segregated school districts.

Unsurpassed since their publication fifty years ago, Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Blue and Generals in Gray provide a complete guide to the military leadership of both the North and the South and remain the most exhaustive and celebrated work on the Civil War's generals.

During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey - called the 'father of the Underground Railroad' by his peers - assisted almost four hundred slaves in gaining their freedom. The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey presents the first comprehensive biography of one of America's most dedicated abolitionists.

Focusing on William Lloyd Garrison's and Giuseppe Mazzini's activities and transnational links within their own milieus and in the wider international arena, Dal Lago shows why two nineteenth-century progressives and revolutionaries considered liberation from enslavement and liberation from national oppression as two sides of the same coin.

In her debut poetry collection The Glacier's Wake, Katy Didden attends to the large-scale tectonics of the natural world as she considers the sources and aftershocks of mortality, longing, and loss. The scientific, the elegiac, and the fantastical intertwine in the service of considering our human place.

Intimate in its presentation of Louisiana folklife and broad in its historical scope, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana honours the legacy of John and Alan Lomax by retrieving these musical relics from obscurity and ensuring their understanding and appreciation for generations to come.

Highlights the diverse ways in which beliefs about the end times influenced nineteenth-century American lives, including reform culture, the search for meaning amid the trials of war, and the social transformation wrought by emancipation.

For the US South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honour and gentility run throughout regional narratives. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions in these depictions of cavalier manhood.

From the 1910s to the 1950s, Edna Ferber published a series of bestselling novels that transformed her into a literary celebrity. Eliza McGraw provides the first in-depth critical study of the author's novels, exploring their innovative portrayals of characters from a diverse range of ethnicities and social classes.

Provides for the first time accurate information regarding the Confederate side throughout the Overland Campaign. The results challenge prevailing assumptions, showing clearly that Lee's army stood far larger in strength and size and suffered considerably higher casualties than previously believed.

The American Anti-Slavery Society originally published Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave in 1838 to much fanfare, describing it as a rare slave autobiography. In this annotated edition, Hank Trent provides newly discovered biographical information about the author - an African American man enslaved in Alabama and Virginia.

Inspired by the carpenter's biscuit joint - a seamless, undetectable fit between pieces of wood - David Kirby's latest collection dramatizes the artistic mind as a hidden connection that links the mundane with the remarkable.

Through these multi-generational stories, Cary Holladay draws on the folklore and history of her native Virginia and examines the cultural, racial, gender, and economic tensions that pervaded the entire nation. As a result, Horse People considers a particular place and the life of an exceptional woman as indicative of the struggles of all.

During the nineteenth century, New Orleans thrived as the epicentre of classical music in America. Until now, no study has offered a thorough history of this exciting and momentous era in American musical performance history. John Baron's Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans impressively fills that gap.

In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the US South. Giemza offers a defining new view of Irish American authors and their interrelationships within both transatlantic and ethnic regional contexts.

Swamper, a fictitious swamp rabbit, lives in the bottomland hardwood forest, or overflow swamp, which is a very real environment. In twelve "letters" addressed to his human friends, Swamper shares his vivid observations about life in a Louisiana swamp.

The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. Mary Ann Sternberg has spent over two decades exploring this historic corridor, uncovering intriguing and often underappreciated places. In River Road Rambler, she presents fifteen sketches about sites along this scenic route.

Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her popular guide, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favourite and overlooked destinations.

Delivers a long-overdue analysis of the works of Ann Petry, a major mid-twentieth-century African American author. Engaging a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gothic criticism, gender studies, queer theory, and psychoanalytic theory, Keith Clark offers fresh readings of Petry's three novels and collection of short stories.

In the first major examination of the diverse European efforts to colonize the Delaware Valley, Mark Thompson offers a bold new interpretation of ethnic and national identities in colonial America.

For over a quarter of a century, award-winning journalist Henry Bradsher reported stories from around the world. In this engaging account, Bradsher recounts episodes from a distinguished career that took him to the Himalayas, the jungles of Bhutan, Kremlin caviar receptions, China's Forbidden City, and the battlefields of Vietnam.

Though African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering.

Louisiana's traditional cuisine has undergone a recent revision, incorporating more local ingredients and focusing on healthier cooking styles. In The Fresh Table, locavore and native New Orleanian Helana Brigman shares over one hundred recipes that reflect these changes while taking advantage of the state's year-round growing season.

Contributors explore Edgar Allan Poe's anti-nationalistic Americanism as they redefine the outlines of antebellum print culture and challenge ideas that situate Poe at the margins of national thought and cultural activity.