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Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobilists, and how state and federal highway administrations replaced the Good Roads Movement.

In this comprehensive critical study of the American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and her work, Erickson demonstrates the poet's ability to combine close observation with a worldview presentation that is at once intuitive, kaleidoscopic, and optimistic.

Collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. The 75 reminiscences gathered here offer a much-needed account of Crane's life from a variety of viewpoints, as well as important information about the contributors themselves.

Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic's pinnacle is often recognised as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism to discover evidence of fertile ground for another age of Gothic proliferation.

Draws on archaeological, historical, and ethnohistorical sources to explore the impacts of sixteenth-century Spanish colonization on indigenous peoples in the Greater Antilles. This book shows the complexity of the initial exchange between the Old and New Worlds and examines the ways the indigenous peoples responded to Spanish colonization.

Chronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II - creatures intimately linked to damaged habitats that rise from the muck, not to destroy the world, but to save it. The book asks what happens to these landscapes after the madness and destruction. What monsters and magic surface then?

Presents a collection of essays that reassess history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice.

Brings back into print a classic account of courage and calamity in the long march towards racial justice in the South, and the nation.

For as long as Mississippi has existed (and then some), flocks of phantoms have haunted the mortal inhabitants of the Magnolia State. In Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduces thirteen of the state's most famous ghost stories.

Offers new views into the playwright's life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of Eugene O'Neill.

Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighbourhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the 'good life' their residents pursue.

Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in this volume include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images, or symbols. These are rendered on pebbles, plaques, pendants, axes, pestles, and atlatl weights, and are of varying sizes, shapes and designs.

Details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education.

Provides the first comprehensive history of the Confederate battle cry from its origins to its use in American popular culture. Through close readings of numerous accounts, Warren demonstrates that the Rebel Yell was not a single, unchanging call, but rather it varied from place to place, evolved over time, and expressed nuanced shades of emotion.

Examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 1915 in ways that continue to manifest today. Grounded in expansive research, Chapell's writing is enlivened by a rich trove of primary sources: diaries, sermons, personal correspondence, published works, and unpublished memoirs.

The life and times of Alabama folk potter Jerry Brown, as told in his own words.

A deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduction to the Volunteer State's most enduring ghost stories. This handsome commemorative hardback edition returns Windham's suspenseful classic to its original keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author's children.

A deluxe, commemorative edition of a beloved collection of ghostly stories from famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's home state of Alabama. This commemorative edition returns Windham's thrilling classic to its original 1982 keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author's children.

A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar.

The remarkable and improbable story of the utopian single-tax social experiment that gave rise to one of the most unique and colorful communities in Gulf Coast south.

Provides a comprehensive assessment of the 99 known species of crayfishes inhabiting the state of Alabama

Five topically and methodologically diverse scholars vividly reimagine the potential applications of religious history. The chapters of this volume use case studies from America, broadly conceived, to ask larger theoretical questions that are of interest to scholars beyond the subfield of American religious history.

Examines a variety of texts - ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets - to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States. Paul Elliott Johnson focuses on key inflection points in the development of populist conservatism.

Analyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal judgment are deeply contested concepts instead of simple character traits.

In this study of the role of ethics and moral responsibility in the field of public administration, Michael Harmon and O.C. McSwite posit that administrative ethics, as presently conceived and practiced, is largely a failure, incapable of delivering on its promise of effectively regulating official conduct in order to promote the public interest.

A collection of essays representing forty-five years of reflection on the central problems of southern history bound together by a common concern with defining the crucial interaction of race and class in the formation of southern politics and life.

A fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. This is David Beckwith's revealing and often amusing story of the year of mutual incomprehension between an inexperienced white teacher and a classroom of black children who had had minimal contact with any whites.

Defines and interprets the common persuasive devices that characterize fascist discourse to understand the nature of its enduring appeal, and which has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time.