Published in 1866, this is somewhat of a travelog of the authors tour through the South, it's battlefields, ruined cities, desolated states and talks with the people. Includes the state of the country, it's agriculture, railroads, visits to patriots graves and rebel prisons, notes on the free labor system, social conditions, middle class, poor whites and negroes and much more.
Determined to escape her family and become a painter, Katherine flees Ireland for Barcelona, where she builds a life with Miguel, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, until her past catches up to her.
... 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.
Like Buck, Ryan Dawson came from the West Virginia hills and spoke with a mountain drawl, in his case thickened by the Skoal he dipped from a can by the controls. “I was always told you wear out your boots at your first big job,” he ...
This charming book is destined to become a bible for the Southern girl—whether born and bred, expatriated, or adoptive—and her many admirers. “Funny, wise, charming, and smart.
... Judy Murray, Jim Neal, Chris Oberholster, Steve Orzell, Kyle Palmquist, Karen Patterson, Bob Peet, Tom Philipps, Bill Platt, David Printiss, Milo Pyne, Chris reid, Jimi Sadle, Mike Schafale, ed Schwartzman, Al Schotz, Nora Schubert, ...
We call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty.
Filled with analysis and fascinating firsthand accounts of the operation of the system that codified and enshrined racial inequality, this book is required reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of America's second peculiar ...
... Ralph , 356 , 370 , 396 , 425 McIntosh County , III , 128 , 166 , 401 , 464 McKinley , William , 162 , 246 McMillan , Eldridge , 539 McRae , Ga . , 351 , 377 McRee , Edward , 151 Porter , James , 97 , 212 , 226 Porter INDEX 617.
In the quiet character of Eilis Lacey, Colm Tóibín has created one of fiction’s most memorable heroines and in Brooklyn, a luminous novel of devastating power.
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.