A compilation and analysis of the many blues and gospel songs written about the inspirational president

In a new printing, a pseudo-slave narrative published in 1856 to impel the cause of abolition

This book traces the Students for a Democratic Society in their relation to other movements and demonstrates that the New Left’s dissolution flowed directly from SDS’s failure to break with traditional American notions of race, sex, and empire.

A history of weaponry used to defend, attack, suppress, and stalk over the centuries

The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild

Collected interviews with the Canadian director of such acclaimed films as The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia’s Journey, and Exotica

A richly illustrated history of over one hundred sacred structures lost to disaster, demolition, or abandonment

An extended meditation on a lively slip of river wilderness abutting the Mississippi River

A biography of the religious and deeply closeted rival to Rudolph Valentino

The story of Shearwater Pottery and the Anderson family’s artful enterprise

How a group of industry outsiders became popular music sensations

A comprehensive study of the writings of a pivotal Caribbean intellectual

A critical study of the writings and thought of the American literary genius and his blues and jazz derived “vernacular” aesthetic

A career-spanning examination of a masterful fiction writer’s output

The historic account of how a determined white postal worker became one of the earliest martyrs in the civil rights movement

An assessment of the achievement and aesthetic of one of America’s brightest comics innovators

Autobiographical essays, introductions, articles, reviews, and lectures that tell the personal tale of the Peanuts creator and America’s great comic strip

Interviews with the brothers who created the cinéma vérité style of documentary filmmaking and the films Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Grey Gardens

An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers

An inside account of the backroom negotiations that entangled the United States in the sufferings of its island neighbor

A study of Faulkner’s place among his peers

Over two decades of interviews with the first African American male author to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

The definitive source for the movie fan magazine and how it espoused hoopla and fashioned stardom

Interviews with the creator of The Thin Blue Line; Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control; The Fog of War; and Standard Operating Procedure

A story of an African American minister who broke from the Seventh-day Adventist church during the Harlem Renaissance

Essays analyzing the impact of African American music and its European reverberations

A thoughtful examination of rough drafts and marketing pressures that reveal conflicts and compromises between five great authors and their publishers

For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner’s masterpieces

Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class

Richard Wright's works most often have been judged by his own ideological polemics, seldom by the terms of art. This, however, is a study of Richard Wright's poetics, rich in a black aesthetic force that was the elemental voice in his writings

This well-informed study examines the complexly faceted and often troubled friendship of two poets united by the bonds of imagination and mutual needs.

A remarkable collection of letters covering nearly four decades of correspondence between two of the South’s foremost literary figures

An anthology that reinforces the value of harmony between two specialties of study

Valuable philosophical insights into Doctorow's novels as paragons of modernist narrative technique

Insight into the curious phenomenon of how pop culture mirrors its own face in its products

The revelation in their letters of a Mississippi plantation family’s prosperity and decline before, during, and after the Civil War

This analytical survey of contemporary fiction is a study of more than twenty-five novels written by women during a twenty-year period of rapid socio-cultural change resulting from the philosophy and goals of the contemporary women's movement

The first book to explore the career of FDR’s Utopian