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Multidisciplinary essays examinig the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outstanding interpreters of the field.

Harold E. Davis's study of Henry Grady and the Atlanta Constitution

Amos's study delineates the basis for Mobile's growth and the ways in which residents and their government promoted growth and adapted to it.

A case study of raw material procurement, production and usage at Dillow's Ridge, Illinois. The author examines daily life in a chiefdom village that flourished around 1250-1500, providing a window on the specialized tasks of day labourers who produced the stone hoes necessary to feed the village.

A collection of 11 essays addressing the issues of Scotch-Irish history and ethnic identity. It examines values, traditions, demographics, and language, as well as looking at the nature of Ulster society in the 17th and 18th centuries, which shaped the motives for migration to the New World.

Although much is known about the mature Truman Capote - his literary genius and flamboyant life-style - details of his childhood years spent in Alabama have remained obscure. This work explores Capote's formative years, his abandonment by his mother, and his early life in the care of relatives.

This account of the Creek War of 1813 and 1814 includes introductory material and a bibliography revised to reflect the advances in scholarship since the 1969 edition. The facsmile reproduction of the 1895 original provides an account of the Indians' point of view.

This compilation, "Talking Together", traces the poet David Ignatow's career from his youthful stance as a working-man-poet, through his gradual midlife recognition by his fellow artists as a voice of distinction, and on through his establishment as an important contemporary poet.

An introduction to statistics, this book explains the importance of statistics to the discipline of dialectology and its relevance to linguists in understanding linguistic data.

A vivid portrait of the man who made Birmingham infamous

Examines current thinking on the interpretation of myths and rituals. The book argues that myths and rituals are important conveyors of cultural values and provides an historical analysis of the subject.

Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and the inspiration for 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. In Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts, Windham's disembodied friend roams the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida to recall thirteen more spine-tingling tales.

Offers new theoretical and interpretive contributions to the study of human activity in the Tombigbee River Valley from 1000 BC to AD 1450. The authors have devised a new taxonomic approach that allows them to portray cultures as they gathered momentum and peaked in their potential as social, economic, and political structures.

This book surveys major trends in Yucatan's currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research.

These life histories - accounts of hard times and hard work - are a selection of 28 from more than 100, written throughout the state of Alabama by workers and farmers under the Federal Writer's Project of the 1930's.