How African influences enriched narratives from enslaved and free blacks writing in Britain and the New World

A study of postbellum fiction and its engagement in debates over African American education and America's new colonial territories

A collection of essays that documents the indebtedness and thematic similarities uniting Shakespeare and eight southern authors

A company of scholars survey the spectrum of southern politics and politicians and attempt to answer the question "Is there a southern political tradition?"

A study of one of the earliest organized slave rebellions in colonial America and its far-reaching effects

The history of the first land-grant academic institution for African Americans.

How the punk scene’s do-it-yourself flyers and posters create a lens into the pounding heart of the music and movement

The story of two African American ministers and their struggle to balance both sacred and secular worlds

The first collection of conversations and interviews with the author who is known as the "father of the techno-thriller"

The life and times of the Kewpie doll and its fascinating socially conscious creator

The story of a childhood at Allison’s Wells and one woman’s combat with the hypocrisies of segregated society

The first scholarly consideration of the over eight hundred haiku written late in Wright’s life

Photographs and tales that revel in the tradition-rich lore of dogs, horses, and hunters pursuing wild boar

Six essays examining the role and relationship of southern women in a world complicated by racial and class antagonisms

A stunning record of the once-pristine beauty of the islands shielding Mississippi's Gulf Coast

Yarns from the Mississippi-born comedian declared the funniest American storyteller since Will Rogers

How the "Great Emancipator" found himself in court defending a slave owner's claim to human chattels

Essays questioning the role of etiquette in the South from Civil War times through the civil rights era

Conversations and interviews with the critically acclaimed creator of the television hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer and many other sci-fi/fantasy favorites

A look at how two groups of protesters promoted their agendas by mock performances.

A scholarly collection of essays that show the American South in comparative perspective

A reassessment of the African American novelist and her position in the canon in the years following World War II

An unflinching exploration of the sources of gruesome tales of bodily harm

Collected interviews with the well-known and forthright author of twenty-four books and countless reviews and essays

A collection of conversations with one of the most confessional and erotic of modern writers.

A retrospective of an inspirational self-taught artist from the Mississippi Delta

Pilots and crewmen remembering the Berlin Airlift, Korea, Vietnam, and secret flights over the Soviet Union

The story of a life tragically at odds with the idealism of Capra’s Americana

How one woman embraced her roots and reconciled with her family and Dixie

How black fraternities and sororities remain vital in a transformed world