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by David Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000

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The Ha-ha

Poems

by David Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003

A feature of English landscape architecture, a ha-ha is a wall at the bottom of a ditch; its purpose is to allow the presence of cows and sheep on one's lawn, but at an agreeable distance and with none of the malodorous unsightliness that proximity would bring. Similarly, The Ha-Ha, the latest offering...
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by Wayne F. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996

“Cooper paints a meticulous and absorbing portrait of McKay’s restless artistic, intellectual, and political odyssey... The definitive biography on McKay.”—Choice Although recognized today as one of the genuine pioneers of black literature in this century—the author of “If We Must...
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by Kelly Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013

Winner of the 2013 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award In her ninth collection of poetry, Kelly Cherry explores the domain of language. Clear and accessible, the poems in The Life and Death of Poetry examine the intricacies and limitations of communication and its ability to help us transcend our world...
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Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana

The 1934 Lomax Recordings

by Joshua Clegg Caffery
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song,...
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by Carmen Trammell Skaggs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera -- both the art form and the social institution -- in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Through the lens of opera, she maintains, major American writers -- including Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan...
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by Cynthia A. Bouton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

In January 1847, a grain convoy passed through Buzançais, an obscure village in a remote region of central France that was suffering from hunger, high prices, and widespread unemployment. Villagers intercepted the shipment, invaded granaries and mills, and forced resale of the grain at a just price...
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The Civilian War

Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman's March

by Lisa Tendrich Frank
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015

The Civilian War explores home front encounters between elite Confederate women and Union soldiers during Sherman's March, a campaign that put women at the center of a Union army operation for the first time. Ordered to crush the morale as well as the military infrastructure of the Confederacy, Sherman...
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Critical Appropriations

African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity

by Simone C. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding...
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Henry Adams in the Secession Crisis

Dispatches to the Boston Daily Advertiser, December 1860-March 1861

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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012

During the Secession Winter session of Congress, twenty-two-year-old Henry Adams worked as private secretary to his father, Representative Charles Francis Adams. Henry wrote four accounts of these crucial months in Washington -- an essay, letters to his brother, a segment in his famous autobiography,...
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The Liberty Party, 1840-1848

Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States

by Reinhard O. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009

In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the increasing slavery debate and growing sectional conflict, the party had grown to challenge the two mainstream political factions in many areas. In...
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by Jay Rogoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011

George Balanchine, one of the twentieth century's foremost choreographers, strove to make music visible through dance. In The Art of Gravity, Jay Rogoff extends this alchemy into poetry, discovering in dancing -- from visionary ballets to Lindy-hopping at a drunken party -- the secret rhythms of our...
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Hemingway's Italy

New Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006

In 1918, a one-month stint with the American Red Cross ambulance corps at the Italian front marked the beginning of Ernest Hemingway's fascination with Italy—a place second only to Upper Michigan in stimulating his lifelong passion for geography and local expertise. Hemingway's Italy offers a thorough...
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Descent

Poems

by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012

Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often "it's safer to stay blind." Beginning with "Morning Train," a response to Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant, Byer sings her way through...
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