Books from University of Georgia Press
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The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870: Essays on Acculturation and Cultural Persistence
By William G. McLoughlinFor details of Timberlake's life, see J. Ralph Randolph, British Travelers among the Southern Indians, 1660-1763 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, ...
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James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist
By Karen E. RobbinsHe had a deep-seated need to be appreciated by posterity, and he had been upset by Mercy Otis Warren's 1805 publication of the History of the American ...
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Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America
By Karen A. WeylerAs Karen Halttunen explains: “When ordinary New Englanders heard their clergymen assuring murderers that 'there is Life to be had for such an one as thou art; yea even for thee there is Life,' they experienced renewed hope that they too ...
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Political Power in Alabama: The More Things Change--
By Anne PermaloffPolitical Power in Alabama is the sequel to Anne Permaloff and Carl Grafton's Big Mules and Branchheads, a biography of the populist governor "Big Jim" Folsom.
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Alone in the Dawn: The Life of Adelaide Crapsey
By Karen Alkalay-GutMy songs to sell, sweet maid! I pray you buy. This one will teach you Lilith's lore, And this what Helen knew, And this will keep your gold hair gold, And this your blue eyes blue- Sweet maid, I pray you buy! Oh, no, she will not buy.
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The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier
By Alan GallayBryan’s contemporaries, in terms of their large holdings of land and slaves, were markedly traditional and conservative. As Alan Gallay shows, Bryan was different.
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The Spirit of Roman Law
By Alan WatsonThis book is not about the rules or concepts of Roman law, says Alan Watson, but about the values and approaches, explicit and implicit, of those who made the law.
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Ancient Law and Modern Understanding: At the Edges
By Alan WatsonIn Ancient Law and Modern Understanding Alan Watson proposes that ancient law is relevant and important for understanding history, theology, sociology, and literature.
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Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924
By Karen L. KilcupThe hunter seeks a “rare” white heron to add to his collection, which, he brags, contains “stuffed and preserved [birds], dozens and dozens of them.”54 Sylvia's grandmother tells their visitor that “the wild creatur's counts her one o' ...
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Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America
By Karen A. WeylerDrawing upon the work of W. DeLoss Love in Samson Occom and the Christian Indians, Joanna Brooks notes: “In 1723,John Mason established a school at Mohegan that was supported by the colony and missionary societies, and a schoolhouse for ...
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Confederate Statues and Memorialization
By Karen L. Cox, Catherine Clinton, W. Fitzhugh BrundageI mean there's a tremendous difference in that regard in terms of how memory and memorialization play out between the winners and the losers. clinton: And a memorial to Elizabeth Thorn,12 who buried the dead at Gettysburg, ...
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Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother's Journey
By Karen Salyer McElmurrayWhile my artist lover and the painter talked in the front room, I slipped down a hall, looking for the kitchen and a glass of water. This hall was the most startling place of all. It was painted many shades of white, from cool and ...
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The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
By William D. BryanWilliam Bruce Wheeler, Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South, 2nd ed. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005), 6–56. 81. Goodman, First Exposition, 100–226. For an overview of exhibits, see “Southern States ...
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Four Years in the Confederate Navy: The Career of Captain John Low on the C. S. S. Fingal, Florida, Alabama,...
By William Stanley HooleJohn, 5, 7, 10-11 Anderson, Col. Edward C. (C.S.A.) , 6, 7-11, 13, 15 Anderson, Midshipman Edward C., Jr. (C.S.N.) , 20 Anderson, Queen's Attorney G. C., 33 Anderson, W. J. (Confederate agent in Cape Town) , 104 “L'Ang1eterre et ...
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Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear
By William McKee EvansHer Cape Fear pilot, John William Anderson of Smithville, later Southport, had taken yellow fever while the ship lay in port ... l.This account is taken chiefly from Alfred Moore Waddell, Some Memories of My Life (Raleigh: Edwards and ...
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Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
By William DusinberreArnold , Richard J. , 54 , 131 , 132 , 135 , 161 , 249 , 309 , 310 , 434 , 494 Artisans , 196-97 and n.53 ... 110–11 , 131 Betsey ( Crecie's daughter ) , 90 , 120 , 188 Betsey ( cooper George's mother ) , 54 , 94-96 accused of poisoning ...
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The Gullah People and Their African Heritage
By William S. PollitzerWoofter , Thomas J. Black Yeomanry : Life on St. Helena Island . New York : H. Holt and Co. , 1930 . Workman , Peter , Baruch Blumberg , and A. J. Cooper . “ Selection , Gene Migration and Polymorphic Stability in a U.S. White and Negro ...
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Sound Wormy: Memoir of Andrew Gennett, Lumberman
By Andrew GennettWhen he returned, we had a meeting in my office, where it was agreed that Mr. Robertson should present his bid of eight hundred thousand dollars. It appeared very likely that this bid would be accepted, and the property should then be ...
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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study of the Development of Culture in the South
By John Donald Wade, M. Thomas IngeThe New England people, says Fitz-Greene Halleck in his poem, Connecticut, are great home lovers, 1 Richard Malcolm Johnston, Old Mark Langston (New York, 1884), 11, 201. 2 Longstreet, Mitten, 291; Johnston, Old Mark Langston, 291; ...
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The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement
By Thomas AielloIn The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, vol. 10: “Fight for Freedom” and Other Writings on Civil Rights, ed. Christopher C. De Santis, 117–122. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Hunter, Gary Jerome.