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Creole Recitations

John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
Smith, Faith L.

John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) was one of the leading members of a newly emergent intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Trinidad—a group that could be identified as both "...

The Woman Within

Glasgow, Ellen, Matthews, Pamela R.

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Picturing Harrisonburg

Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City since 1828
Ehrenpreis, David

Picturing Harrisonburg provides the most vibrant examination available of the history of the Virginia city, once a frontier town founded in the 1730s but now a...

Intimate Reconstructions

Children in Postemancipation Virginia
Jones, Catherine A.

In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia’s Reconstruction. Jones argues that questions of how to define,...

City Trees

A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century
Lawrence, Henry W.

For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem so memorable, City Trees: A Historical...

Story Line
Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail
Marshall, Ian
Many hikers on the Appalachian Trail take books as companions, in spite of the extra weight in their packs, but Ian Marshall carries the habit to new literary, ecological, and...

Dolley Madison Digital Edition: 300 New Documents

Magna Carta
Text and Commentary
Howard, A. E. Dick
A classic classroom reference since its 1964 publication, this indispensable volume offers the full text of Magna Carta in English, as well as a chapter-by-chapter discussion...

In the Hollow of the Wave
Virginia Woolf and Modernist Uses of Nature
Scott, Bonnie Kime
Examining the writings and life of Virginia Woolf, In the Hollow of the Wave looks at how Woolf treated "nature" as a deliberate discourse that shaped her way of...

The Making of a Racist
A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
Dew, Charles B.
In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which...

The Most Famous Man You Have Never Heard Of

The Sage of Monticello
Malone, Dumas
Dumas Malone’s classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson’s life.

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948
Roosevelt, Eleanor, Black, Allida
"Eleanor Roosevelt once asked, ‘Where do human rights begin? In small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Such are...

Fishing the New River Valley
An Angler's Guide
Smith, M. W.
"Care not, I, to fish in seas
Fresh rivers best my mind to please
Whose sweet calm course I contemplate
And seek in life to imitate."
—Izaak Walton...

The Papers of Daniel Webster
Wiltse, Charles M.
Born in the final days of the American Revolution, Daniel Webster would leave his mark on the following century, of which he was one of its mightiest statesmen. His remarkable life and career...

A Many-Colored Glass
Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe
Dyson, Freeman J.
Freeman Dyson’s latest book does not attempt to bring together all of the celebrated physicist’s thoughts on science and technology into a unified theory. The emphasis is,...

The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel
Hack, Daniel
Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this provocative new book to recover the...

Two Novels by Mary Chestnut.
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, Muhlenfeld, Elizabeth
As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated—and intellectually equipped—to record the...

East-West Exchange and Late Modernism
Williams, Moore, Pound
Qian, Zhaoming
In East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary masterpieces of Western late modernism...

Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo
Rosenthal, Judy
As a new resident of Togo in 1985, Judy Rosenthal witnessed her first Gorovodu trance ritual. Over the next eleven years, she studied this voodoo in West Africa's Ewe...

The Diaries of George Washington
July 1786-December 1789
Washington, George
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern...

The Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Taking office with a Democrat-held House and Senate, Woodrow Wilson embarked on one of the most important chapters in the Progressive movement, approving the Federal Reserve Act, establishing the...

The Fowl and the Pussycat
Love Letters of Michael Field, 1876–1909
Field, Michael, Bickle, Sharon
Michael Field was the pseudonym used by Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) coauthors and lovers for the poetry and verse drama they published. This...

A Storm over This Court
Law, Politics, and Supreme Court Decision Making in Brown v. Board of Education
Hockett, Jeffrey D.
On the way to offering a new analysis of the basis of the Supreme Court’s iconic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Jeffrey Hockett critiques an array of theories...

The Ghost behind the Masks
The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare
Shaw, W. David
In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare’s influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas...