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Interweaves the private story of a marriage coming apart with readings of John Milton's poetry and prose. Connected essays chart the chaos of loss and the discovery of how a writer can inhabit our emotional as well as our intellectual selves.

Demonstrates that structures of media undergird American regionalism through the representation of a given geography's peoples, places, and ideologies. THe book also outlines how the region answers back to the national media by circulating ever-shifting ideas of place via new platforms.

Presents a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. These voices have particular resonance today and underscore how rival memory traditions stir passion and controversy, providing essential testimony for anyone seeking to understand the US's greatest trial and its aftermath.

The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic, economic, and social change to the region. Ida Altman examines the interactions of diverse groups and individuals and the transformation of the islands of the Greater Antilles.

Presents a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jamaica. As D.A. Dunkley demonstrates, Rastafari women had to contend not only with the various attempts made by the government and nonmembers to suppress the movement, but also with oppression and silencing from among their own ranks.

Explores Louisiana's protracted efforts to restore and protect its coastal marshes, nearly always with minimal regard for the people displaced by those efforts. As Craig Colten shows, the state's coastal restoration plan seeks to protect cities and industry but sacrifices the coastal dwellers who have occupied this perilous place for centuries.

While the poems in Winthropos reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they often reside in the American present of their conception, forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.

In poems that confront a region indelibly shaped by environmental turmoil, economic erasure, and the weight of an outside world intent on destroying it, Daniel Boone's Window works to reclaim and reckon with the realities and complexities of Appalachia.

As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David Slavitt remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill for meaning. In his new collection, Slavitt traverses Africa, India, Israel, and the America in which he finds himself, as he searches for clues from which he might learn at least a little.

Colloquial in tone, balancing narrative breadth with precise detail, Davis Kirby's poetry displays his voracious curiosity about history, science, literature, and popular culture. Yet here he also reinvents himself with poems that recall the compactness of Jack Gilbert, the sweep of Allen Ginsberg, and the introspection of Frank O'Hara.

The final work of Anya Krugovoy Silver, a poet celebrated for her incisive writing about illness, motherhood, and Christian faith. The poems in this collection dance between opposite poles of joy and grief, community and isolation, humor and anger, belief and doubt, in moving and devastating witness to a life lived with strength and resolve.

With The Glass Globe, poet Margaret Gibson completes a trilogy distinguished by its meditative focus on the author's experience of her late husband's Alzheimer's disease. In this new collection, she blends elegies of personal bereavement with elegies for the earth during the ongoing global crisis wrought by climate change.

Distilling more than thirty-five years of George Bradley's work, this volume exhibits a wide variety of styles and forms, ranging from brief lyric to extended verse essay, establishing moods that encompass humor, tenderness, and surprise.

Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas. The collection gathers scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards.

Prior to the 2020 presidential election, historians considered the disputed 1876 contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden the most controversial in American history. In this book, Adam Fairclough sheds new light on the events surrounding the electoral crisis, especially those that occurred in Louisiana.

Examines identity and nationalism in the post-Civil War South through the lens of commemorative activity, namely Independence Day celebrations and the Centennial of 1876. The often colourful and engaging discourse surrounding these observances provides a fascinating portrait of this fractured moment in the development of American nationalism.

Both history and memoir, The Flight tells the story of Richard W. 'Dick' Bridges's heroic service in World War II. This is a story not only about World War II and the bravery of a unique group of soldiers, but also about fathers and sons, what can get lost in the gulf between generations, and how patience and understanding can bridge that gap.

Explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South from 1970 to 1984. Sean Byrnes suggests this challenge had a significant impact on US policy and politics, shaping the rise of the New Right and neoliberal visions of the world economy.

CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell "Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland," Richard Bell "Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre-Civil War Maryland," Jessica Millward "Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore," Martha S. Jones "'Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union' The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent," Charles W. Mitchell "Baltimore's Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath," Frank Towers "Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland," Frank J. Williams "The Fighting Sons of 'My Maryland' The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861-1865," Timothy J. Orr "'What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick' Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam," Brian Matthew Jordan "Confederate Invasions of Maryland," Thomas G. Clemens "Achieving Emancipation in Maryland," Jonathan W. White "Maryland's Women at War," Robert W. Schoeberlein "The Failed Promise of Reconstruction," Sharita Jacobs Thompson "'F--k the Confederacy' The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865," Robert J. Cook

Marks a significant development in literary recovery efforts related to Assia Wevill, who remains a critically important figure in the life and work of Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. This an invaluable documentary resource for understanding a woman whose life continues to captivate readers and scholars.

Examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers - Black and white, North and South. Invisible Wounds is a sweeping reevaluation of the mental damage inflicted by America's most tragic conflict.

Like politics, journalism has been turned topsy-turvy by the presidency of Donald Trump. In concise, illuminating, and often personal essays, the contributors to Covering Politics in the Age of Trump take a wide-ranging view of the relationship between the forty-fifth president and the Fourth Estate.

Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia Levine's fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths.

The innovative and dazzling short stories collected in Josh Russell's King of the Animals explore love and heartbreak, growing up and growing old, cities and suburbs, the fantastic and the everyday.

An incisive debut poetry collection that investigates the trauma of desire. Quinones's lyric world is populated with stark dualities: procreation and childlessness, predator and prey, mania and depression.

Deeply rooted in the intricacies of the author's Japanese-Hawaiian heritage, Calabash Stories is a lucid, unforgettable collection. Jeffrey Higa is a master storyteller, delighting in life's humour and strangeness while arriving at the intimacy and poignancy that come from a shared understanding of grief.

While most people are aware of the World War II internment of thousands of Japanese citizens and residents of the US, few know that Germans, Austrians, and Italians were also held in internment camps. Port of No Return tells the story of New Orleans's key role in this complex secret operation.

Moves the history of New Orleans' Creole community forward, documenting the process of "becoming American" through Creoles' encounters with Anglo-American modernism. The author tracks this ethnic transformation through an interrogation of New Orleans's voluntary associations and social sodalities, and its public and parochial schools.

reveals previously unrecognized efforts by African Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process, Brandon Jett exposes a complex relationship, suggesting that while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority relations, it did not define all interactions.

One of a small but growing body of works that examine the Allied liberators of France. Revealing in stark detail the experiences of French civilians with the American military, After D-Day presents a compelling coda to our understanding of the Allied conquest of German-occupied France.