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In 1808 the legislature of the Louisiana territory appointed two men to translate the Digest of the Laws in Force in the Territory of Orleans (or, as it was called at the time, simply the Code) from...

Born into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised for almost two years among Native Americans, the charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1860-May 20, 1909) rose...

In examining the 416 units of the U.S. National Park System (NPS), geographers Joe Weber and Selima Sultana focus attention on the historical geography of the system as well as its present...

This book shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century culture of sentiment" to generate political action in the Progressive Era. Sentimentalism marched right...

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and nature, land, pop culture, 20th century music and representations, and...

The people in these eight interlaced stories are bound together by the worst sort of grief, the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. Even so, Toni Graham reveals a...

The Sum of Her Parts explores how women's body parts and the roles/parts that women play have been deployed toward political ends. One essay examines Sarah Winchester and the lore that sprung up...

In The Viewing Room, two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. But this room is...

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. Expanding on Walter Benjamin's notion of die Moderne, The Whole Machinery explores representations of people and...

In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up. Their names are Merrill,...

This collection of poems speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility. But more than that, these poems are concerned with how both parents deal with this trauma without...

Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or...

In his second collection, Christopher Kondrich asks how and why we place value and meaning on life's intangibles. Valuing questions the origination of one's value system through deeply personal poems...

Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by...

Author: Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, Heather Ann ThompsonPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: Jun 15, 2020Number of Pages: 176...

The Wet Wound: An Elegy is a collection of lyric essays that discuss grief and overcoming loss. Inspired by the period of grief Norris went through in the wake of her father's death, the collection...

Lindsay Bernal's What It Doesn't Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this...

In Jessica Tanck's debut collection, narrative and lyric converge to confront the marks left by violence, loss, and longing. Winter Here troubles the boundaries between home and the outside world,...

Author: Trevor KetnerPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: September 15, 2021Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0820360392ISBN-13: 9780820360393