Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, using maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated material to highlight the land, history, and people of each individual state.
The South is a novel of classic themes—of art and exile, and of the seemingly irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom—to which Colm Tóibín brings a new, passionate sensitivity.
The first volume of a collection of short stories by Sean Dietrich, a writer, humorist, and novelist, known for his commentary on life in the American South.
Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow.
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... Claude, 273, 274 Percy, LeRoy, 260 Percy, Walker (lawyer), 206, 207 Percy, Walker (novelist), 91 Percy, William Alexander, 10, 91, 176, 211 Perkins, Frances, 216 Philadelphia Story, The (Barry), 32 Platt, David, 238 Plessy v.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Mass Culture, 1890–1930 (2011). Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine, Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam (2012).
What few know is that the South has its own surf culture. To fully explore this unsung surfing world, Steve Estes undertook a journey that stretched more than 2,300 miles, traveling from the coast of Texas to Ocean City, Maryland.
The author, former editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, share his impressions of the South and its recent changes
New York: Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1927. Macy, Jesse. Our Government: How It Grew, What It Does, and How It Does It. Boston: Ginn, 1886. ... Meltzer, Milton, ed. In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro. 3 vols.
An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.